Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Yea housing is the elephant in the room. Even with the changes from 2.1 prices where going to go down due to new gear from CT and increasing tome/materials acquisition. People spent insane amounts of gil on crafted stuff and merc carries because there was no other use for gil. The bubble has burst.

Shouldn't really make predictions, but I think the market will stay where it's at for quite some time. FC/personal housing is a somewhat distant goal, it will take time for the majority of purchases that will be made to actually be made. The length of time will allow more players to advance their battle/crafting/gathering classes and thus be less reliant on the Market Board for needed items. I see supply surpassing demand for quite some time, which isn't necessarily bad, just makes it a buyer's market vs seller's market.
It's still bad because there's no futures. The deflation has slowed but has not stopped. Luckily we have no debt/lending market so it won't cause an apocalypse, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make life miserable for people.

The futures is still uncertain, and that generally doesn't cause good things for the economy. Deflation to stagnation is still a bad weather report.

Basically if people don't know how much gil cost a week from now, they won't spend, and if they won't spend, then eventually it'll just cause another bubble to pop, and another, and another.

Equalization is not achieved yet. There is no such thing as a buyer's vs seller's market. That's something you talk in industries, not economies. Economy is always bad in either event, and really bad if there's hyper-inflation/deflation(which was a month ago)