I....they....but.....what!?

Is this concept really that hard to understand for these people? My brain is hurting from this thread, not because of the math, but because people seem to really not understand it. I am at a loss...

"If I have 100mil now and I don't have 100mil in ARR, then SE is taking my hard earned gil."

No. No they are not.

1,000,000 gil in ARR is EQUAL IN VALUE to 100,000,000 in 1.0. You are losing nothing. An item that cost 99 Million in 1.0 (which you could afford) will cost 9 million in ARR (which *GASP* you can still afford!).

The ONLY hiccup in this entire system is when ARR first launches and ignorant, stupid players still try to sell things at 1.0 price, which won't happen for long at all.