ROYAL RUBY • NIGHTCLUB • BEHEMOTH/PRIMAL

[Saefinn]

Thats the whole point in RPing that. And 10k isnt that expensive in term of gil per hour for normal activities ingame. You could definitely argue a point of it being closer to 2-5k range if they where RPing off of RL values for their menus. But a larger point is that its worth whatever they can find a customer to buy it for. Like IV bags would cost an insane amount from a hospital but are super cheap everywhere else.

If we're talking about an immersive experience within a roleplay setting, paying 10,000 real gil to me seems crazy, I realise everybody is doing it on that data center it seems, but it's still crazy. It's crazy from an out of character sense because it's way cheaper to make. It's crazy from an in character perspective because within the game world's setting, 10,000 gil would be ludicrously expensive for a dzo steak even if we're talking gourmet mark ups. Player economy is highly unreliable to base the game world's economy. So you use in world points of reference. And in a data center where there isn't a problem with people exploiting RP to make bank OOCly the prices are a lot closer to those in world points of reference and feel a lot more reasonable and realistic from an RP point of view and most importantly, are in character prices, not out of character prices.


Ultimately what it ties down to is not some RP justification, or some IC justification or even OOC justification, dzo steaks are cheap to make...if they HAVE to be made.

It ties down to there this norm of trying to make money off of RP on other data centers where RP is scarce.

OP may be one of them or OP might be doing what he think is right in what sounds like a terrible norm.

People can do it if they really want to, but let's not pretend there's an RP justification for it. But I find it terrible that it is in a state where charging for RP is the norm.

If you think about it, based on these standards, if my character concept was a billionaire Ul'dah entrepreneur. I'd have to be a billionaire in game. And if my billionaire showed up and bought everybody drinks then I'd be screwed if it was a new character I created and I only have 10,000gil to my name. But it might be the exact thing this character does, he might be the sort to be frivolous and try to buy friends, because he's that shallow.

I'd have to toss that entire concept aside until I get the gil to be able to RP that concept.