Quote Originally Posted by Punainen View Post
Its slightly more complicated than that. As that makes it so anything that used to cost, say... 100 gil, if still listed at 100 gil, is a 90% increase in price. The problem lies in the fact that, those used to the current pricing will NOT begin charging 90% less for all their items. An item that sells in the MW for 10k, is NOT going to drop to 1k. It will remain at 10k. So beyond NPC values (which hold extremely little control over the economy), all they're really doing is making everyone poorer.
Oh, but they will. Sure prices won't change immediately but they definitely will drop, and likely drop rapidly. When everyone has 10% of what they used to then they won't be buying certain things for what they're willing to pay now.

I'm not saying there won't be some sort of transitional period... in fact expecting there not to be would be silly for many other reasons as well considering gathering and crafting are undergoing fundamental changes... but rather I'm pointing out that what they're doing isn't a Gil wipe... it's a digit drop.