ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[Wynn]

They are removing gil from the economy.
I think people are trying to give themselves some self comfort by saying "you'll have exactly the same amount value of currency as before"

It's not the case.

I'll use an example.
1 USD is roughly 80 JPN Yen.
So lets say I have 1000 USD I get it converted into Yen and go to Japan.
I touchdown in Japan and I've got 80000 JPN Yen.

Its not like I think to myself "omgs I'm rich!"
A different value is given from the exchange rate, the currency value remains the same.

Moving that decimal point is a whole different matter.

If everything would remain the same in 2.0 with just everything gil rewards/npc values/players banks all divided by 10.
Then why change it?
You don't say "Oh everything will remain the same just /10" for no reason, they are changing it for a reason.
To remove gil from the economy.

I'll lose alot of gil but that doesn't bother me.
The new introduction of 2.0 new players is the future of this game.
I wouldn't want any of them to be put off by the difference in wealth between them and older players.
In short.
What they're doing is completely understandable.
I just don't like the guise of "everything is going to be /10 it will be ok"

And that 99mil gil cap won't last, that will be bumped up sooner or later.

I think your view point is flawed.

Replace the 80 yen with 10 and now reverse the situation so you are coming from Japan to the U.S. That is exactly what is occurring right now in XIV once ARR hits.

[darkstarpoet1]

I think your view point is flawed.

Replace the 80 yen with 10 and now reverse the situation so you are coming from Japan to the U.S. That is exactly what is occurring right now in XIV once ARR hits.

yes, but there are also other factors involved in that conversion.

1. is the jp and american economy the exact same? no
2. will everything bought in the jp economy have the exact same cost in america after the conversion? no

the point is even with the servers we have now and everyone using the same type of currency prices differ from server to server by wide margins. each server found the middle ground where the price they are willing to sell and the price people are willing to pay for each item.

the same will be true in 2.0. every item in game in the players market will not drop to 10% of the cost it was before. people will have to do the same trial and error to find the new price as they did originally because many things will be changing along with the gil conversion. the biggest thing that is happening along with the conversion is tons of new players which will change the demand for each item. with a change in demand will change the price for each item.