Quote Originally Posted by Wynn View Post
I think your view point is flawed.

Replace the 80 yen with 10 and now reverse the situation so you are coming from Japan to the U.S. That is exactly what is occurring right now in XIV once ARR hits.
yes, but there are also other factors involved in that conversion.

1. is the jp and american economy the exact same? no
2. will everything bought in the jp economy have the exact same cost in america after the conversion? no

the point is even with the servers we have now and everyone using the same type of currency prices differ from server to server by wide margins. each server found the middle ground where the price they are willing to sell and the price people are willing to pay for each item.

the same will be true in 2.0. every item in game in the players market will not drop to 10% of the cost it was before. people will have to do the same trial and error to find the new price as they did originally because many things will be changing along with the gil conversion. the biggest thing that is happening along with the conversion is tons of new players which will change the demand for each item. with a change in demand will change the price for each item.