Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XII! (General)

[Zonter]

The gil issue is because of lack of crafting and gathering. Stuff is just to easy to get. I hate to say it but its true. When you make it so its very easy to obtain the supplies and make it HQ almost every time, people don't see the profit in it and treat it as a NQ. Again hate to say it but crafting HQ items is to easy. On top of that, people keep reducing the price on many things that were worth farming and now they are not because because its just easier and almost cheaper to just buy them because you get almost 10k gil on one dungeon run and repairs cost 2.5k-3k gil on iLv80+ gear when they are running low after 4-5 runs. As of now, people that craft can't make gear w/o binding materia to it close to get close to iLv80+ gear. If they do try to sell it, people just use the stones to buy their armor because they don't want to or don't have enough gil to buy the set and stones are easier to get than gil.

[Zonter]

So again hate to say they need to make the armor you buy with stones cost more or reduce the amount of stones you get to balance out the gear you get with stones vs the gear you can get threw crafting. Places like CT and Coil should lower their drop rates on gear and add hard to get supplies so people that can lot on them to make gear iLv80 stock to iLv90 gear with materia and add some customization to the stats. The housing also killed the economy because a lot of FC's and players are hording gil to get their house because they cost so much.On top of that they are talking or making it (not sure haven't really looked into it yet) that you can personal buy your own house. How much the FC houses are, people that have a lot of gil are trying to get more gil to be ready to buy their very own house. Lately in this game I haven't had the need for gil. I can make it very cheep or farm dungeon to get better gear.

[Zonter]

The only thing I use gil is cheep supplies, teleports and repairing gear. Other than that if I feel like the supplies are going for a to much, I farm it and keep the NQ and sell the HQ to still make profit. But most of the time, by the time I get back the price dropped so much I fell like I just wasted my time because people try to get a quick sale buy price matching off each other so items that cost 10k per pop are now 500 gil or lower with in a day or two. They really need to go back to the FFXI auction house ways again to help balance out the game a bit. I know its easy to monopolize the market but hay some times that good thing. If you are into making gil off the people that are monopolizing its a good way to go. That's how I made most of my gil in XI. If they don't fix the basics of the game many people are going to leave because they are bored with it quick and mad because the fell like they wasted their time on their crafting or gathering jobs.