Quote Originally Posted by OSUBuckeye4 View Post
I find it very weird that I can either take 4 silver pieces (2,000 gil)... or, I can take a piece of armor that I can go right to the market board and buy for 350-700 gil (that is without sitting around and waiting for a better deal).
During the initial start of the game, 2k could not buy such a thing.

You've already concluded that the item was originally and has always been 600-700gil only. We know that when this game was live the first couple weeks, everything was expensive, right down to all the story gear. Here and there you could buy story pieces cheap as people out leveled them but most of the time, it was much more cost effective to take the story item as these items were more then 2k easily.

Now, 3 months later, those simple items have saturated the market.

Your analysis of the market is not correct.

The economy arises when people are too lazy to do things for themselves or are time constricted. The market appears cause there is a need for it. If everyone did their own crafts and etc, theoretically, everyone would be self sufficient, meaning there would be no need for a market. However, because we see a market running, there is a need for crafts,gears and etc, meaning there is a need for an economy.

To discuss if there is a need for an economy is not logical, when the only way the economy in this game can start to begin with, is when people need it.