Quote Originally Posted by Ryshel View Post
I don't buy things off the wards because 1)Everything is overpriced and 2)So many things are nonexistent because people are too lazy to gather. I've got 2/3 gathering jobs to 50 and working on my third so that I don't have to deal with the wards ever again. The reason things are so high is because everyone with more than 25mil just buys everything no matter what the cost. So really, the rich are just trading their money amongst themselves. And it's going to be that way always. So again, why cut everyone's gil by 90% when the rich are just going to get rich again and keep overpricing everything just because they can?
It's very likely performance related. They'll be able to make the database more efficient by only having to store and retrieve smaller values. Reducing the significant digit by 1 for something accessed as much as virtual currency can result in huge overall processing gains.