The Effective Purchasing Power of Your Savings

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Yeah, I know, I'm kind of late to the party with all this but I couldn't post for 10 days and, well... yeah.

Anyway... I'm just perplexed over one thing. When gil was redenominated, we were told that the reasons for doing so were because of arrow prices, more or less, because arrows would be removed from the game and that there would be no need for that extra digit so they sliced it off and lowered prices of everything to compensate (since arrows were about 2 gil each).

Most players flipped out over it but we were ensured that it wouldn't affect us in any way, that we wouldn't even notice. But there's one quote that really sticks out for me...

That said, this currency redenomination is primarily intended to reduce the excessively large values used in all transactions. We would like to reiterate that the effective purchasing power of your savings will not be reduced.

No, that's not just me underlining the part that sticks out the most to me. That's exactly how it was posted. See for yourself:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e956cb586363ab

What happened to this promise? Why do legacy players have to pay 3-10x more than other players for housing when we were specifically told that our purchasing power would remain the same? It was even underlined to add emphasis, not once but twice.

And on top of that...

to reduce the excessively large values used in all transactions

625,000,000 gil is excessively large the last time I checked.

Why are players that supported this game being punished for supporting SE when the rest of the world flaked and left the game and the company for dead? Did we forget all the "lol, SE's going bankrupt because of this failure of an MMO" comments three years ago?

I'm not asking to be treated any different for having supported the game. No, I wish to be treated equally, regardless of how long I've supported the game for. Is that really too much to ask? I mean, I was basically told I would be, wasn't I? Yet I'm not.

And, mods, please don't ban me for expressing my concerns and opinions. If this comes off as me attacking SE or something, I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm just really frustrated with this and would like an answer. And I think I have every right to be upset.

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