Quote Originally Posted by Natabant View Post
^This. I don't think SE is dumb enough to take a huge portion of peoples gil away from them, it would probably lose them a lot of customers. I think that anyone with over 99,999,999 will just have their extra gil given to the same npc that will hold all of our items over 100 at the start of 2.0, but that's just my guess.
A 90% reduction to the currency as a whole is not "taking gil away." It is a measure against overly-inflated values.

Nobody loses wealth, the way their wealth is numerically represented is changed.