Aggressive Gold Sinks

[Alisi]

I don't think you quite got my message...but oh well. (New Gold Sinks hurt new players because they aren't well off to start off with)

The gold sink items would be non-essentials. New players aren't well off. They can't compete against someone with half a billion gil. Sellers will drive others off. This is the monopolies/ near monopolies I'm talking about. Someone with a million can't compete with someone who has 500m. The person with more will drive their prices down to push people out. They do this all time. I've been at the receiving end of this personally a number of times. This makes it incredibly hard for new players to break into the market.

But 200mil for some glamour stuff? I'll take the "inflated" items on the MB at 20mil over 200mil anyday.

Perhaps not you personally, but some will and it'll help over the long run.

Does the gil just sitting there being unused really hurt people that much?

It makes all the difference during trade wars. Aggressive sellers are a thing in this game. People will try to drive you out of "their" market. Having a ton of gil laying about makes this simple. Someone with hundreds of millions of gil can afford the temporary loses taken to drive you out. They will drop the prices two, three, sometimes four times as much just to get rid of you. A new player with limited funds has a harder time dealing with that.