Quote Originally Posted by MomomiMomi View Post
Selling items on the market board is intrinsically competitive. If you have two items listed on the market, one each from a different player, both players are competing to sell that item.

Crafting to sell items is, as well, competitive. The person who can craft items the fastest or cheapest has a competitive advantage over someone who can't.

Crafting and earning gil are quite a big part of the game, whether you care about it or not.
I respectfully disagree, the inflation in the economy is on a base level because there's no restriction whatsoever in gathering and crafting not to mention the insane amounts of money that the game provides to the players.
While your point is sounds, on paper, I think that FF14 is broken from the get got even before bots and extra retainers, which makes it uncompetitive from my point of wiew