Just How Rich Are They?

[thunderbreak]

I'm just trying to recall Edda saying 2 potions (28 Gil x 2) used up all the money Avere gave her, and Disgruntled Madam saying it took her long time to save up the money for a make over (2000 Gil). And truth be told, if we go by the story then most of the places we go on a daily basis is guaranteed death for most in Eorzea.

I think our riches is beyond any of Eorzean citizen's dream.

Kinda like the power level in Goku compare to Mr. Satan, yet in reality Mr. Satan is very strong for a "Normal Human".

[Waffilicious]

We are far above the middle-high class but all the richest not even close, maybe the poorest of the high class but other than them not even with max gil on all retainers and yourself

[Kitfox]

they have more gil then even all the rmt's combined.

I think you're greatly underestimating RMTs.

[Catwho]

There are two types of players - those who just "get by" and who live off their dungeon drops. They generally max out at around 100K on most days, maybe a bit more if they're saving to farm for something. These folks make a living off their adventures as a job, and are well enough off by NPC standards, but they're not rich by any stretch.

Then there are the player merchants - crafters, farmers, buyers sellers and traders, investors, even some bankers. (I loaned a FC member 3.5 million gil to help her buy a house and she's slowly been paying me back in 500K chunks - we called this a mortgage. 0% interest rate but she offered to be a tank any time I needed one.) For these players, making money is also a major part of the game, and they do whatever they can to turn that gil tally as high as possible.

Let's also remember that gil is more closely analogous to yen than it is to dollars. So take your current gil, divide it by a hundred, and that's where you stand dollar-wise.

By that method, our 30 million gil mansion was about equivalent to $300,000 - which is a bit on the cheap end because we were on a low population server at the time (not the case any more.) On high population servers, $600K for a mansion was about right.

Right now cash on hand I have 3.7 million gil, which is the equivalent of 37K in savings. A nice little nest egg (since our FC house is paid for and counts as equity) but not filthy rich at all.

[NozomiKei]

I love how civilly all of you are discussing this topic! TwT

I know people with nearly 200million gil from crafting and or selling runs and even doing the yen thing that seems pretty dang rich. If all of these people on the Syndicate that have been mentioned are this rich and Raubahn supposedly earned enough money doing his thing on the Blood Sands to buy a seat on it, how rich is Raubahn and why don't we see more evidence of his wealth? Why doesn't he quietly use it to help out the Ala Mhigans?

[Evangela]

Ul'dah is a kingdom state and social stratification exists in that state. just like our real world, elites in a country like this must be rich because they took everything away from the lower classes.