Quote Originally Posted by Bsrking5 View Post
Where does it cost 2.69$ to buy a boiled egg? I know a place where I can buy a half dozen for 3.49$ after taxes. That puts it around 0.12$ per gil.
For a dzo steak costing around 1,200$. A quick google search has shown A5 wagyu steak for selling as high 1,700$. so yea high end but not out of the price range.
Good Wagyu steak is crazy expensive for a reason and that reason doesn't apply here. Dzo are a free roaming yak-like creature native to the azim steppe, which live in abundance and have a lot of meat on them and aren't raised or bred like the cows used for Wagyu.

The fairest comparison would be a high quality non-Wagyu steak.

In fairness, it's a Dzo steak we're talking about and not an FFXIV equivalent of a Wagyu, Wagyu is ridiculous priced for a reason, which doesn't apply to Dzo in FFXIV.

Quote Originally Posted by Archpoet View Post
Thank you for this reply, it definitely adds context, and your history with it appears to be line with my experience so far on Primal. I'm a legacy character, but new to RP, and it is honestly sad. I did not expect the elitism in the RP community itself, but I suppose* I should have. That was short sighted of me.

I cannot speak to the pace of the market (meaning delta over time of the venue prices at the datacenter level), but I can say that a 5-star experience pricing itself at fast food level, from a business perspective is out of the question, simply because it sends the wrong message about the quality of the establishment to potential customers. That being said we are apace in pricing with at least two other high quality venues in the Primal DC.

Those overcritical of this simply haven't researched Primal's RP venue offerings sufficiently.
A strong part of me in that situation would be tempted to mix it up and say "we'll only charge IC prices" and stick it to the exploitative RP venues doing it for the money. Maybe not even tell your guests it's IC gil only and let them pay at the end, so they get to experience what you have to offer and find you refuse their real gil in the end and say "we only accept IC gil" and they can see they don't lose out on quality because they've paid money and that they're dealing with people who actually care about RP. If they insist, it's another matter, people sometimes tip.