Quote Originally Posted by KupoSan View Post
Just my two cents, please note I may be totally off, and I'm not very good with finances/history: I've already seen an increase in gilseller tells on my server. I've also seen an increase of shouts that say things like, "We're saving up for FC funds: *sale* Titan wins 100k cheaper." This worries me. Didn't something similar like this happen with the Great Depression? What I mean by that is, everyone is going to take their money, save it up, and not spend a dime of it. The economy will crash further than it has causing no one to want to buy goods unless they are super cheap. I know some people don't care about housing, but it appears a great amount of people do. I'm worried that prices will drop even more and money making will come to a halt with stipends coming in from RMT. I hope this made some kind of sense--it's just the way I'm thinking it will go if change isn't implemented.
Crafters were told that furniture would save the market, and make everyone gil. But I don't see how that can possibly work. Any FC wealthy enough to buy a house at these prices is going to have crafters in-house to make the furniture. Those at the very edge of being able to purchase aren't going to have the spare gil to spend even if they can't make the items in-house. There's going to be 0 demand for furniture because hardly anyone will be able to flipping use it. The market will be flooded and the prices will be driven further down, which is only going to make it harder for those of us who don't already have the gil to make more gil. Which is going to push the dream of having an FC house even further out of reach than it already is at the moment.

It's really quite depressing.