ARR Gil Cap Reduction

[KiraHime]

if even the dev troll us around in the end, no point playing this pos.

I liked the part about the price of NPC being dynamic and changing depending of the economy. I can't wait to have a proper translation about this one. If it's really the case, then what's the point of cutting our gil if the price of NPC vary with inflation/deflation? stupidity.

Because at the moment everyone is dealing with huge numbers for simple purchases. It doesnt make sense for newbie gear to be coasting 16000g at level 12. But costing 1600g makes a lot more sense. Inflation caused by the way gil was handled at launch led to this somewhat "none issue" of everyone being seemingly "super rich". But having 1 million gil doesnt mean anything, anyone can have a million gil after an hour of play.

It would have been troublesome for them to do this at any other point of in time though, keeping the way gil has been handled through 1.xx makes sense. I for one look forward to our new world order!

[Sounsyy]

I agree that redenomination of gil is a good idea, and this game desperately needs it. I'm simply worried about player reaction and what that could do in the big picture of re-launching this game successfully.

[Meatdawg]

Yoshi has a long post up about the gil redenomination (in Japanese obviously):
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...034#post831034

I said this back on the 14th..

This is how I understand it as well and makes sense with what Reinheart posted above.

If you have 300 mil, it becomes 30 mil.
If you have 90 mil, it become 9 mil.

Person 1 still has the same % more then person b.

Everyone that thinks they just lop you off to 99 mil if your over 100 mil is dreaming. (think about it, how is that remotely fair lol)

No one wanted to believe me... It makes sense and is the only fair way to do it

[HiirNoivl]

I agree with Meatdawg and similar postings.

You're not losing any gil. Think of it as an exchange. 10 1.0 gil = 1 ARR gil (Insert Gath Joke)

[Enyyx]

To all the people that said myself, Meatdawg, and others were "stupid" or "trolls"...

I'm not saying I told you so, but... I told you so :P

[NoctisUmbra]

Funny how I made that very same equation and Gath joke.

Well looks like all is resolved. I'll go back pages and call out the people who were so adamantly wrong later when I'm actually on a PC. One guy even asked if I'd be willing to shove my foot in my mouth and post pics.

[Efrye]

I hope they'll also reduce the guildleve gil rewards by 90%, otherwise our gil will drop in value pretty fast.

[NoctisUmbra]

I hope they'll also reduce the guildleve gil rewards by 90%, otherwise our gil will drop in value pretty fast.

I'm pretty sure it's one of the bullet points in his post.

Waiting for that translation...

[Zezlar]

I hope they'll also reduce the guildleve gil rewards by 90%, otherwise our gil will drop in value pretty fast.

Everything related to Gil will be readjusted. That includes Guild leves, treasure chests, monster drops, vendor prices relating to buying/selling, quest rewards and more. It's not simply just a reduction of player currency.

[KiraHime]

I read it that are basically reducing everyone's money to fit the new economy.

If you take your current gil count, and knock the last digit off, that's how much you'll have in ARR

This isn't bad for anyone, regardless of how much money they have, because it happens to everyone simultaneously.

If you had 10x more cash than another player before, you will still have it after. A world wide economy change like this isn't necessarily needed, but it does make the numbers smaller and easier for everyone to deal with.

Its the difference between counting everything in pennies or pounds. except because Gil has no smaller derivative they are manually adjusting it, something easily done with a virtual currency.

Quote from Junpei in another thread on the 14th. This is the post that meatdawg vit quoted when he made his!

A small minority of intelligent players got this right straight off the bat and were called idiots for it.

Some of the responses to junpei in that thread were amazing too

In all honesty, I never knew I would ever meet people with this amount of stupidity in the world, guess MMOs have proved me wrong..

and you would be incorrect, because that is what they are doing, lowering the max, not changing how much gil everyone has.