I think Yoshi-P was made a brave decision since this gil-remove-last-digit thing is hit each current players emotion..very hard.

But they MUST do this or else the new player will see the price of item super expensive and they might feel like it will take forever to get to buy something that having good stat... and SE don't want that thing to happen.

It's funny that some of item will be super cheap in ARR eg.
- Water Shard... for 2 gil
- Wind Shard for 8 gil
- Buying chicken egg from NPC for.... 1 gil?

And yeah that will raise another problem since I think no one will be crazy enough to set price that damn low... it's very pointless.

I think in ARR ppl will set price the same as in FFXIV at current state anyway, but since new player will hard to get a gil on hand... So the demand and supply will make the price match the right one.. but I think it will not as low as 1 digit because it very pointless to sell thing that low..

So yeah, IMO, the real value of gil after ARR is not really 1/10th down.. its depend on market supply/demand. But it will hit us, old players, directly at our heart.