Quote Originally Posted by someONEgood View Post
Legacy servers are populated with folk who played pre-ARR 1.0 FFXIV. It was ridiculously easy to get MASS AMOUNTS of Gil during end-game through leve abuse amongst other things. Enough to where Yoshi had to reduce peoples Gil down to 10% of what they originally had (we're talking billions) for the launch of ARR.
This is silly. Our gil was reduced coming into 2.x from 1.x - this is the argument made by people who don't even know what they're talking about.

Legacy servers have a number of economic problems that are facilitated by people hoarding these "hundreds of million of gil" you're talking about, so all that money is exiting the economy, and has been aimed at that for some time. As a result, money is leaving the economy at an accelerated rate, or is at least not being spent in the economy, creating a problem of cash flow.