Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
This is only true for people partaking in marketboard shenanigans.
For regular non-crafting, non-flipping players, 1gil is 1gil, because all of your gil is obtained through direct involvement with the games systems, not the dynamic marketboard economy.

This is why supper inflated markets where those items are 2m instead of 400k are so bad. New players or players who don't have the time or patience for crafting don't stand a goddamn chance.
If you don't engage with the marketboard, then it doesn't matter either way. If you engage with the marketboard only to buy, that's your own fault and nobody should feel sorry for you. If you want to purchase other people's time and resources, then you will need to work for it and there's nothing wrong with that. Instead of vendoring stuff you don't want, put it up for sale. It's not difficult. Anyone can do it.