Quote Originally Posted by Anarnee View Post
Like, to say this is to help the little guys is kinda silly.
They are non-essential items, nothing here is needed for anything but vanity/status. It doesn't hurt anyone to not have them or have to wait for them because you get no actual benefit from having them. I thought this was exceedingly clear from the original post and subsequent explanatory posts but I guess not?

Taking gil out of the game will lower prices on the MB because everyone will have something they're striving for so those crafting and gathering moguls will keep selling their wares instead of realizing they're sitting on 700m gil and there is no where else for them to go with it barring the occasional 20m top at the launch of an expansion/patch.

I think this is a wonderful idea with far-reaching benefits and frankly I think it's been well explained. I'd wager the naysayers either still don't understand somehow or feel that they will never have that much gil so they don't want other people to have shiny things they can't have. While I don't expect to break into that gillionaire market myself I see no downside of other people who have invested the time and energy to do so having some pretty trophies for their efforts.