ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[LemmingKingXXX]

Amount of currency is decreasing
Wealth relative to the most consistent prices in the market is not changing
The volatile side of the market will adjust accordingly given enough time
If you look at it in the right way, those with less gil right now may end up losing less wealth directly following the version change, as they will be less likely to be able to afford the prices that exist in the volatile areas of the market before those prices adjust for the re-valuation that is occuring.

[Coombah]

This is lame....

[Flower]

What happened to them not taking anything from us? T^T bunch of liars!

[Aku]

What happened to them not taking anything from us? T^T bunch of liars!

They.are.not.taking.anything.from.anyone.

Seriously, try to go beyond the shock and knee-jerk reaction and THINK about it.

[TimonLoon]

This'll make a double melded weapon (for relic) worth somewhere around 3-4m which seems way more approachable to newer players than 30-40m... despite it being the exact same thing.

I welcome this new change and look forward to playing with lower numbers.

[Zezlar]

We don't buy things from NPCs because the prices are ridiculously outrageous. In Final Fantasy XI I hoarded NPC materials for crafting. Why would I buy an item in this game from a vendor for 4,652 Gil from a vendor when a player sells it for 1,000?

[Technyze]

Anyone who thinks this is going huge negative impact on them self individually is fool. The player controlled economy is not gonna continue to stay as inflated as it is, simple economics will tell you prices on the market will scale down to around 1/10th in 2.0, it may not happen right away, will take a couple weeks or even a month but in the long run this wont affect anyone greatly.

[Zumi]

The prices on things in FFXIV were getting really high and way out of hand which is probably why they wanted to do this change. Nobody is really effected negatively by it because everyone is getting scaled down to 1/10 of what they had. The economy will be scaled back too by players.

[Petdo]

I think Yoshi-P was made a brave decision since this gil-remove-last-digit thing is hit each current players emotion..very hard.

But they MUST do this or else the new player will see the price of item super expensive and they might feel like it will take forever to get to buy something that having good stat... and SE don't want that thing to happen.

It's funny that some of item will be super cheap in ARR eg.
- Water Shard... for 2 gil
- Wind Shard for 8 gil
- Buying chicken egg from NPC for.... 1 gil?

And yeah that will raise another problem since I think no one will be crazy enough to set price that damn low... it's very pointless.

I think in ARR ppl will set price the same as in FFXIV at current state anyway, but since new player will hard to get a gil on hand... So the demand and supply will make the price match the right one.. but I think it will not as low as 1 digit because it very pointless to sell thing that low..

So yeah, IMO, the real value of gil after ARR is not really 1/10th down.. its depend on market supply/demand. But it will hit us, old players, directly at our heart.

[KiriA500]

The value of gil right now is incredibly weak due to how easy it is to get. This is just a balancing issue.

What a lot of people seem to be dismissing is that this is being applied to everybody. People with more gil than me are losing 90% of their gil, just as the person who has less than me is losing 90% of their gil. Nobody is getting screwed out of anything by this, it's just making the big numbers go away.