Quote Originally Posted by Rizon View Post
So, are you telling me that SE is going to establish their own version of the Federal Reserve Board and other regulatory agencies to keep the economy in check. If not then we are destined to repeat the cycle over and over again.
What I'm telling you is this:

The amount of money the system creates and the amount it removes through gil sinks are also scaled porportionally in the same amount that our own gil is being changed by. Thus, value is coming in and out of the system at the same rate it was before (note the word "value"- it's important). Because of this, it won't be realistically possible for people to charge substantially differently without preventing people from being able to buy, and thereby forcing them to adjust their prices until people ARE willing to buy. You, the buyer, have a lot of power to speak with your wallet and prevent any significant economic change from taking place.

Because the demand for some items will change (because a lot of items are being changed/added/removed from the game), no, prices are not going to be exactly the same as they were before. But they already varied a lot from one server to the next and with rising and falling needs. So while some things will change, there isn't going to be some kind of economic cataclysm like some people here are hypthoesizing.