Why is everyone screaming gil sinks and broken economy?

[Ziar]

I see half the players complaining they cant afford gear yet I see no over priced gear

The trend over the last year prices on nearly everything has fallen dramatically

Is it just players who dont spend time farming for gil and have none who are complaining?

Someone please enlighten me on why theres so much talk about gil sinks and broken economy? (not solutions but why people say it)

I for one dont really see a problem...every game has rich and poor. Obviously from the "i cant afford gear" rants....not everyone has a lot of gil so whats the problem?

[OMEGA_HACK]

There are two things in life that human kind (in general) are afraid of:

1) Fees (AKA Gil Sinks)

and

2) Change (making something different)


In this case we have Fees and a change...two things that are more scary than the Cocytus itself!

[Jinrya-Geki]

No over-priced gear? I had a nervous break down on wutai when I saw a level 5 shield for 100k.

I literally shouted "What moron makes a level 5 shield 100K". What new player would have that gil!?

[OMEGA_HACK]

Well that would be a scammer...And once we have a history to see transactions those kinds of sellers will be weeded out or will never make a sale.

[Felis]

No over-priced gear? I had a nervous break down on wutai when I saw a level 5 shield for 100k.

I literally shouted "What moron makes a level 5 shield 100K". What new player would have that gil!?

Yeah, he is a moron
But the bigger moron would be who buy it ^^
The NPC price for that shield is 5500 gil, only a bit over the production cost

[Ryans]

Just because someone was trying to sell a shield for 100k doesn't mean that the item in general is over-priced. That could very easily be an isolated case of that particular person trying to sell it for more than it is worth. Anyone with enough patience can go around to the vendors and find a shield any where from level 1-20. Level 20-40 is when it is difficult to find decent quality gear for an appropriate price.

The problem is that one of the main sources of income is leves and not many people use them for leveling as commonly as they used to. People get PL'd to 50 in a few days and expect that they should have all the resources necessary to get endgame gear readily available at their fingertips.

If you don't have to work to get to level 50, why would you want to start earning your keep after you get there?

[Ziar]

No over-priced gear? I had a nervous break down on wutai when I saw a level 5 shield for 100k.

I literally shouted "What moron makes a level 5 shield 100K". What new player would have that gil!?

those fall in the same category as the 1 fire shard for 999,999,999

thats why the transaction history will be nice as that will set somewhat of a "base" price for item worth

[Quisi]

Even with gil sinks in 1 year when they open v 2.0 all those people who stay now will have such ridiculous amount of money that ps3 players will never catch up. I predict SE will open some new servers for them so they won't have to pay 500k for a lvl 10 item.

[Felis]

Nobody would pay 500k for a level 10 item if they can get it from NPC for around 30k.
I think NPC prices are good to make a (not forced) max. price limit.

[Betelgeuzah]

Even with gil sinks in 1 year when they open v 2.0 all those people who stay now will have such ridiculous amount of money that ps3 players will never catch up. I predict SE will open some new servers for them so they won't have to pay 500k for a lvl 10 item.

Only if inflation gets out of hand. Right now that is not the case.