ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[PandaTaru]

Indeed we need more info, clarifications rather. Even if it's "only" psychological, frustration is a powerful emotion. What's really silly is that even with a cap at 99m, or cutting everyone gil by x10, the end high end/rare items will still sell for a lot and people will still try to make a buck overpricing junk items or mats.

[ejiboo]

dropping everyone who's over 100m to 100m is a great idea. it gives new players a chance to catch up in the economy. i wouldn't care if they dropped everyone to 10m (but kept a 100m cap). anyone who played when leve's made you a millionaire were basically handed all of their gil. people say it's easy to make now but...eh...not really. it takes a good deal of work to get gil in the current build; whether it means leveling your DoL to 50, getting into a SB party or farming currency - it's not as easy as doing those leves back in the day (from what i've heard because i didn't play back then myself).

regardless of what they do, they're at least looking for solutions and i just hope they implement it well and do it right. whatever that right may be.

[Renen]

dropping everyone who's over 100m to 100m is a great idea. it gives new players a chance to catch up in the economy. i wouldn't care if they dropped everyone to 10m (but kept a 100m cap). anyone who played when leve's made you a millionaire were basically handed all of their gil. people say it's easy to make now but...eh...not really. it takes a good deal of work to get gil in the current build; whether it means leveling your DoL to 50, getting into a SB party or farming currency - it's not as easy as doing those leves back in the day (from what i've heard because i didn't play back then myself).

regardless of what they do, they're at least looking for solutions and i just hope they implement it well and do it right. whatever that right may be.

How much DID leves give you?

[Aku]

How much DID leves give you?

50k, even 60k, easy. Hell, there's an "achievement" for getting 100k in one leve that comes from that day, so it was possible... (you just got an in-game message).

[Molly_Millions]

50k, even 60k, easy. Hell, there's an "achievement" for getting 100k in one leve that comes from that day, so it was possible... (you just got an in-game message).

that actually still is possible via leve evaluations, fyi.

[Xenor]

The redenomination would help new players because while they say everything will divide by 10, it's unlikely starter content will divide by 10. This content will be useless to us but provide decent gil for new players and low level items will be more affordable. As for low level gear, these new players will control that market because it's not worth us making level 1-20 gear. They will however benefit from the smaller income this provides. The lack of new players is exactly why low end items cost so much right now, not many low level players/crafters making them.

[Inzoum]

Buy expensive items, you won't lose these and will most likely be able to resell them or use them. Better than stashing all that money without a purpose anyway

[TheRac25]

Dev says no wipe

whoa wait, when did Bayohne get upgraded to developer? surely he is just a glorified PR person.

[Sounsyy]

Q: Will you wipe gil from our characters or change the currency with the launch of ARR?

A: No, there won't be a gil wipe. However, we do currently have plans to decrease the max digit by 1 (999,999,999 > 99,999,999)

This to me sounds like they're just reducing max gil limit, NOT reducing everyone's gil to 10% of what it was in 1.0. Note he says "max digit" not divide player's max gil by 10. The currect max gil you can earn is 999,999,999. The 2.0 max will be 99,999,999. Also, he starts off the statement by saying THERE WON'T BE A GIL WIPE. I think losing 90% of all player's money qualifies as a gil wipe... so I'm pretty sure it won't be done. My two cents.

[Niqote]

whoa wait, when did Bayohne get upgraded to developer? surely he is just a glorified PR person.

Ok... it is annoying that you took one part of my post simply to make a snide comment.
Allow me to replace my incorrect noun... even though it actually does not change the point of the matter.

'An official post was made stating that there is absolutely no gil wipe'

However. We have Rein's translation that is somewhat ambiguous.

F: Related question but for 2.0 gil will it be wiped or change?
Y: We already mentioned before we would not wipe but we will put this on topics but for example arrow price is bit expensive so stuff like that will change, and gil total will be less by 1 digit for all players and at same time all NPC sold items will be 1 less digit (1,000 gil > 100 gil)

And we have other people claiming that the Japanese word used was indeed the word for redenomination (eg. post #88) -

What I would like however (since I am no bilingual) is have someone point out where in the video that word for redenomination is said and list this word in it's correct context... because frankly going off what people say on these forums without proof proves foolish.