What are they going to do with the economy in 2.0?

[Zumi]

Currently there is too much gil in FFXIV. Cause the game spewed out gil in its early stages.

Now its almost to the point now that any player who plays off and on like myself really can't buy anything because its like 200k-2m for each piece of gear for each slot. That leaves people going around in their level 1 gear for the longest time because its pretty impossible to raise the kind of gil people are asking for gear.

During the relaunch for 2.0 it will be an even bigger problem cause more gil will be in circulation which will cause more inflation and if they do attract new players most will not be able to buy gear for sale because it will be so high they can't afford it.

So will SE wipe the gil on relaunch or not? Or what can they do realistically.

[feint2021]

They aren't wiping anything. Also, too soon to answer.

[Zumi]

It will be really hard for them to attract any new players / returning players without fresh servers, due to the fact they won't be able to afford anything.

[Nuru]

They wouldn't go as far as wiping everything, and they probably wouldn't end up making extreme gil-syncs either. If people have a shit ton of gil from the beginning, then they rightfully deserve to have that much. Those are not the people that are selling level 20 gear for 500k, the people doing that are the derptastic fools that sell to the rich buyers. However, if the crafters can stop being craptastic and actually sell for a lower price, it can work out for everyone. People can be greedy and it only caters to the wealthy.

[feint2021]

It will be really hard for them to attract any new players / returning players without fresh servers, due to the fact they won't be able to afford anything.

You don't know this.

[Ziar]

Lol you just have greedy crafters on your server

I can buy a full outfit of decent gear for 200-500k on cornelia

[Zumi]

You don't know this.

I can attest to this myself. When I see that most of the gear my level is going for 200k+ and I have to use my old gear from way back when I started it honestly doesn't make me want to play the game more.

It be fine if there were other ways to get gear, IE quests, dungeons ect. but currently the only way to get gear is crafted gear which is crazy expensive cause of inflation.

[Misteyes]

*Semi-stupid idea, half serious*

Hopefully, we will be able to put as much of our gil into Free Company estates as we want, to get the biggest, best estates around.
If the entry-level estate costs 50k, and each level of estate costs roughly double the previous, ending at a 1-billion gil castle at the top end, I think that will sink most of the old gil nicely. Sure, some misers will hold onto their gil to pay for more important things. Frugal spenders, though, aren't going to keep the prices high, no matter how much gil they can spend, when they have the option of spending less.

[feint2021]

I can attest to this myself. When I see that most of the gear my level is going for 200k+ and I have to use my old gear from way back when I started it honestly doesn't make me want to play the game more.

It be fine if there were other ways to get gear, IE quests, dungeons ect. but currently the only way to get gear is crafted gear which is crazy expensive cause of inflation.

The situation now doesn't mean it will be the same a year from now. We can speculate all we want but that really doesn't do us much good.

As for gear prices.... That seems a bit high if you're talking about mid level gear. For lower rank gear, patch 1.19a has addressed this by lowering the vendor costs for gear.

Edit: I forgot to add that NM's drop gear for mid level players.

[Medura]

How odd, i daily sell 10-20 pieces of gear for around 10-30k gil per piece, easy money, and people actually buy it. i get about 5 times as it costs to make it, so its more than an ok profit to me. The reason you see stuff for 200k+ is 1) it is new, 2) noone buys it, 3) noone sells it

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