Instanced Raids Unveiled!

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

You still don't get it. It's not a moot point.

Crafter Bob makes a rank 30 sword and wants to sell it.

Scenario with rank cap: I buy the sword from Bob for now because I need a new weapon in the short term. Using Bob's sword, I have an easier time completing the dungeon content in the hopes of finding a rank 30 "uber sword". Bob earns a living as a crafter, and I participate in the economy to further my battle class needs.


Scenario without a rank cap: I see Bob has a sword for sale but I don't care in the least because I'll just steamroll the rank 30 dungeon with my rank 50 class over and over until I get the rank 30 "uber sword" drop. Bob's worth as a crafter is diminished, and neither of us participate in the economy, diminishing it as well.



Why is your rank 50 raid gear so valuable and so prestigious? It's because it was hard to get and you had to earn it. If rank 30 gear was hard to get as well, it would also carry a feeling of worth and prestige.

This isn't about making rank 30 raid gear more valuable than rank 50 raid gear. This is about maintaining a sense of perceived value for ALL items, regardless of rank.

What you want is for everyone to agree with your OPINION. It's not going to happen.

[Rentahamster]

What you want is for everyone to agree with your OPINION. It's not going to happen.

This isn't opinion, it's the laws of economics and the realities of scarce resource management and how it correlates to perceived value.

Anyway, we should probably discuss this topic in the other thread and not this one.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

This isn't opinion, it's the laws of economics and the realities of scarce resource management and how it correlates to perceived value.

Anyway, we should probably discuss this topic in the other thread and not this one.

There is no law of economics in the current game. The Dev team has a long way to go to fix the economy in FFXIV, but instituting a cap in a r30 dungeon isn't going to do it.

[TheVedis]

There is no law of economics in the current game. The Dev team has a long way to go to fix the economy in FFXIV, but instituting a cap in a r30 dungeon isn't going to do it.

i dont know
there is an economy, and several of us see it

yet alot of people dont at the same time

it is true, we NEED more gil sinks to get some money out of the economy, but the economy is there

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

i dont know
there is an economy, and several of us see it

yet alot of people dont at the same time

it is true, we NEED more gil sinks to get some money out of the economy, but the economy is there

Got it. I don't use much of the economy as it is.

[TheVedis]

Got it. I don't use much of the economy as it is.

i live in the market wards half the time so i see alot of what goes on

its brutal in there with price wars and alot of other crap going on

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

i live in the market wards half the time so i see alot of what goes on

its brutal in there with price wars and alot of other crap going on

Lol. SE please give us a /breakkneecaps emote!