Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
Hello!
I'm probably going to convince nobody with this post, but I do want to bring up that it is expensive to stock these bars. For my own venue, we sell Mors as one of our primary drinks, sometimes selling into the thousands within a month. That takes gil to supply, and a lot of it. As well, the bartender gets an hourly wage, though I'm unsure if other venues practice hourly wages, so on top of all of that, sometimes we don't even go black on our bar earnings for a month.

As far as "buy out the bar for the rest of the night for 600k" goes, again, it's a gamble on our end when somebody does that. It's possible and has happened we've sold more than 600k worth of goods on nights the bar has been bought out. The items may be digital, but they take real time and resources to gather for and craft for.

We've always kept a strict asking price of 5k gil as a limit, and we always make sure what we sell is HQ.

Like I said, I probably won't convince anyone who's already figured it in their head that gil transactions tarnish the sanctity of rp, but managing a venue cost-efficiently isn't a lazy way to earn gil at all lol. At least the way my venue does things, maybe we're just tryhards who reinvest any gil we *do* make into the venue itself.
A few thoughts:
- it wouldn't be so bad if the mark up was realistic, some items are real cheap to craft
- real items don't have to be exchanged and that can save cost there
- placing housing items is another way of having a physical item for people to ICly consume without there be repeat costs and I'd argue plays the effect better because the food remains physically there and physically represents the food you've put down and not a generic eat emote
- allow people to pay in pretend Gil and thus receive pretend items.
- hired staff seems to be where the business mentality comes in, the idea of RP is to have fun, so my expectation is that the people serving are doing it because they enjoy the RP...and people do, it's not like work you get some great IC interactions. And you can rotate with other RPers or offer to help them out if they doing it as favour to you. Do people have this mentality in these places that they only RP in those scenarios if they get paid? And not because they enjoy RP?