The Current Economy

[Shougun]

Houses, from what YoshiP has said will range from cheap to ghastly expensive. So.. "Please look forward to that" (Beyond buying the house you will also have upgrading the house and filling it up - Seeing as YoshiP has also stated that Houses will get its own expansion packs, he plans this to be big).

Another gil sink that "may" go along with houses is reoccurring fees (rental/upkeep/and or tax) - though I dont believe there was any mention of that so far.




Currently

1. Repairs
2. MW Taxes
3. Materia/melds (if the item is destroyed the money you used to buy the gear / materia turns into a null reward. 100000 gil -> null, is a gil sink XD)
4. (Ammunition seems to be largely going by the wayside in ARR - but it was a gil sink)
5. Foods and other consumables

[Mook_Mook]

Houses, from what YoshiP has said will range from cheap to ghastly expensive. So.. "Please look forward to that" (Beyond buying the house you will also have upgrading the house and filling it up - Seeing as YoshiP has also stated that Houses will get its own expansion packs, he plans this to be big).

Another gil sink that "may" go along with houses is reoccurring fees (rental/upkeep/and or tax) - though I dont believe there was any mention of that so far.




Currently

1. Repairs
2. MW Taxes
3. Materia/melds (if the item is destroyed the money you used to buy the gear / materia turns into a null reward. 100000 gil -> null, is a gil sink XD)
4. (Ammunition seems to be largely going by the wayside in ARR - but it was a gil sink)
5. Foods and other consumables

Materia melds are not gil sinks. This is the problem. The only gil sink in this game, is the 4% tax you get when you buy items off the market wards and the special crafting materils. Buying a materia on MW, just shifts the money around, thats it. They should have added the materia melding aspect as part of the gold sink to normalize costs around classes and prep the economy for 2.0 but they didn't.
Examples of gold sinks - Diablo III pony land staff .
World of warcraft mount training.
These are money sinks not money transfer because they effectively take money out of the game. That 2.8k gold you had out of the economy. That 5 mil or whatever, out of the economy. They sink the amount of gold in the game. and help provide a more stable economy for a longer period. Buying a materia just shifts that x amount of gold around but it still remains in the economy, and attributes to inflation.