Discussion & Suggestions: What do you think of FFXIV economy?

[NamidaTekika]

I don't think anyone would say no to more uses for gil, but your suggestion wouldn't do much for the economy. The volume of gil only matters to the extent that inflation matters and inflation only matters to the extent that it prevents players from buying essentials, but in this game essentials all come from vendors with fixed prices. In addition, if you start making drastic changes to the gil supply, the short story is that well-established players with a lot of accumulated wealth will be the ones who benefit.

Thing is those established players stockpile the gil because there aren't really many gil sinks.

There needs to be big ticket things on vendors to vaporize that gil from the economy. The RMT bots don't spend gil (since it just circulates to idiots who buy it) and the people hoarding gil have no reason to spend it. This just builds on inflation in the long run. Part of why they honestly should also have some kind of rent or maintenance payment for housing to slowly and steadily pull gil from the system. Doesn't need to be insane like 100k a month for a plot would pull millions of gil a month out of the system, but overall most players would make more than that who actively play (heck just roulettes daily in a week would make more than that, but it would slow inflation). It would also help people get housing and such (which would pull gil from the system) since house squatters having the pay rent would discourage squatting.

Big ticket items would also siphon a lot out to make gil actually worth more too. Healthier economy because it would slow overall inflation. What are the people with gil getting though? Nothing that alters the actual gameplay experience and if you consider that as benefitting than honestly you need to remove large plots too for the same logic.

Gil sinks and slowing inflation is good for the game health. Nuking bots also would help greatly too because it would allow for more gil liquidity instead of it going to bots and sitting in RMT coffers.