Aggressive Gold Sinks

[Zojha]

The issue with the MBs, and why things are expensive, is generally because of monopolies or near monopolies. This rises the prices of things across the board.

I.e. you need more people to do that content, more MB space for retainers and less different products, because every product represents its own market.

The better idea here is not to get the people who are gil capped back into the market (they're only a handful anyway), but rather to make people who simply haven't bothered with crafting/gathering so far bother with it (because that's a metric ton of people), either by making it more accessible or enhancing gameplay. Consolidating materials would also help, as it reduces the amount of markets. Here on Balmung, price inflation is pretty much a non-issue, but we're also the highest populated server, likely with the most crafters to match.

As a bonus of that, if more people were to pick up crafting, there'd be a lower demand for crafted goods, as more people could afford it to make them themselves, thereby reducing the amount of purchases and further driving prices down.

It would also greatly help if exclusive gathered/crafted items were available via other means, such as gil vendors. That way, buying them does not shift money around in the playerbase, but removes it entirely. The people engaging in that content would simply save themselves the cost, which is still a benefit - and if they can sell lower than the vendor price, they can still sell to other players, too.

Now those would be some very effective changes. I get the feel they're better off posted in the "unpopular opinion" thread, though, as they don't benefit the rich people at all.

[Alisi]

Now those would be some very effective changes. I get the feel they're better off posted in the "unpopular opinion" thread, though, as they don't benefit the rich people at all.

My aim is not to benefit the rich. Simply to help other people break into the MB. People will buy exclusive gil mounts/minions/etc. because they are exclusive and people like having exclusive things. It would also help getting new people into crafting because crafting/gathering are the only real effective way to amass gil in the game. However, I don't think my idea would be the end all, be all. I think a combo of things (your ideas and mine, and others) would help the situation. I was just throwing it out there to get people talking.