ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[HiirNoivl]

Well, the prevailing view is that everyone will price their items at 10% the current prices because no one will be able to or want to buy items at any more than that. I don't agree with that and I want to see if it will come to pass or not. It will also be nice to bring it up in this thread later as much as people hate necro posting.... I plan to do that.

I see that people are backing off a bit now that it's becoming apparent how unlikely it is that items will be prices at 10% the current price.

I'm planning on the mark up being about 100% on commonly needed items, but I'm thinking it will be more than that. Granted, we'll all have to get used to the new way of the world, however, now is a crucial time to position yourself because we'll never have it this good when it comes to gil ever again.

The winners in the gil-race are being decided right now.

[zzapp]

Well, the prevailing view is that everyone will price their items at 10% the current prices because no one will be able to or want to buy items at any more than that. I don't agree with that and I want to see if it will come to pass or not. It will also be nice to bring it up in this thread later as much as people hate necro posting.... I plan to do that.

I see that people are backing off a bit now that it's becoming apparent how unlikely it is that items will be prices at 10% the current price.

I'm planning on the mark up being about 100% on commonly needed items, but I'm thinking it will be more than that. Granted, we'll all have to get used to the new way of the world, however, now is a crucial time to position yourself because we'll never have it this good when it comes to gil ever again.

The winners in the gil-race are being decided right now.

Hiir - If SE reduces everyone's gil by 90%, AND if they also reduce the amount of gil they introduce to the game in the form of rewards and npc selling prices by the same 90% then, IN THE LONG RUN, simple mathematics will DICTATE that prices across the board will fall to that same degree. It can be no other way. Players simply won't have the gil to meet all their needs otherwise.

That being said, however, this will NOT be the case @ the start of 2.0, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply wrong. Only time will prove this out, and only thru time will this stabilize. The danger in this transition is a player buying or selling an item out of line with the new economic setting.

To illustrate, take this simple example. Today an item sells for 100g. In 2.0, in theory, this item should now sell for 10g. If one is willing to pay, say, 50g for said item, bad choice. If another is willing to pay 5g for the same item, good choice. This won't necessarily be that easy to discern at the start. Given that, I don't agree that the gil race is being decided right now. The gil race is yet to be decided and won't be decided until 2.0, where you either buy smart or dumb, not unlike today. In other words, whether you stock up on items/goods and hope to catch people off guard with an inflated price, or whether you sit on a large stockpile of cash and only buy when the price is < economic worth is really irrelavent. There's gil to be made with both approaches.

Perhap best summary of this is the old adage - Let the buyer beware.