ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[Darkillumina]

This thread is full of stupid. All around.

I'd be willing to bet that when 2.0 launches our retainers won't be magically in place with what they were selling on November 1st. Logic dictates that everything will be given back to the retainers leaving players the ability to re-post things once they place their retainer. Most people with half a brain won't rush to post items because we have no clue what their actual value will be until a few months in.

Sometimes I think SE should just do a complete wipe of everything except our levels to iron out all the imbeciles come 2.0. The game would probably be better off because of it.

Finally, I would like to add that this current Atomos event along with people buying up stuff en masse due to fear of their gil being reduced has added so much gil to the market that prices have drastically taken a hike since last Thursday. Trust me, SE does not want anybody new to 2.0 coming around and being discouraged by the rampant greed (myself included) of the players from 1.0. I'm sure 2.0 will have a more controlled economy with cheaper NPC prices and less lucrative quest rewards to make it so that 1 million gil actually means something. No way in hell will they let us upset that plan.

Drop it people we can't do anything about this one. I'll lose a massive amount of money myself but it's for the betterment of the game and the player-base at large.

[Duuude007]

Lets look at this a different way:
SE wanted to add new, very expensive content. (like huge property and housing)
They wanted to make sure that the super-rich couldnt access it yet, unless completely capped in vanilla FFXIV.

They set the value of the new property at 999,999,990 gil during vanilla ffxiv.

ARR goes live. Everything is cut to 10%, and gil is 10x tougher to earn.

Including the new property, now worth 99,999,999.

[Coombah]

Heck the bed..

[Ferth]

Right now 1 gil could roughly be compared to a penny. In 2.0 all our pennies are being converted in to dimes. They will be worth the same, you just won't have so much trouble keeping your pants up if you keep all your money in your pockets.

Anyone who is STILL arguing that this is a negative change is either a troll, an idiot, or both.

As for the argument about people not selling things at adjusted rates after 2.0...

The player based market requires TWO THINGS:

Players who are willing to sell things.

and players who want to buy things.

If you are thinking people are going to continue to sell things with their current price tags just ask yourself this simple question.

Would you buy it?

If you wouldn't buy it, chances are not many people are willing to buy it either.

Just because someone puts something up for sale at a given price DOESN'T MEAN IT WILL SELL AT THAT PRICE.

If no one is willing to pay that amount, it won't sell and the person will be forced to lower their prices to remain competitive.

Is it going to be a straight transition once 2.0 starts? Probably not. But chances are if you feel a given price after 2.0 is too high, you won't be alone, and the item won't sell and in a few days the price will go down.

If you STILL think this is an unfair change and you are some how being deprived of something you put a lot of effort into acquiring, I'll be happy to take your gil when you quit.

[Warlock]

LOL ppl saying they will quit game cuz they wont have the same millions when ARR comes up is laughable to the max ...bcuz you could...idk ...Burn all your damn gil from now to shutdown?? get triple melded stuff or w/e :P

[Chardrizard]

Him spending too much time ingame is probably why basic economics seems hard for him.

[Sev]

Suck up your medicine like good puppies.

I don't care about the gil just the time spent earning it.

If the time spent to earn said gil in ARR is relative to V1 then I have nothing to complain about.

We all know the real reason for this is that they don't want super rich players running about buying up the world in ARR.

I would rather they just told the truth instead of some lame excuse about arrow prices.

[NoctisUmbra]

Oh man... after reading pages and pages in an attempt to catch up on the discussion, I have to say all that ended up happening is me laughing out loud on multiple occasions.

It's just deliciously ironic to see people who don't get it and think they're losing wealth call others stupid/dupes/etc.

[darkstarpoet1]

i do have a question on this matter. with the value of my gil going up in ARR x10 times is the value of my 1 gil in ARR worth more than 1 of gath's gil in 1.0?

i understand his 1 gil is worth more than mine now, but when mine is worth 10x what it is will it then be worth more?

the reason i ask is because if not i would like to invest in alot of gath's gil.

[Keith_Dragoon]

I'll have 8.1k come 2.0, time to warm up the cardboard box, imma be homeless!