An Open Letter to Square EnixFollow

Almost all of my gil comes from NPCs.

Reason? No competition and instant results.

Almost every other means of making gil that involves some sort of a market has loads of other people looking to get a piece of it as well. Crafting, NMs, you name it. Either this makes the potential rewards less than they could be, it makes the rewards come in slower, or both.

In my book, if the economy were healthy, I would indeed be able to make much better gil by playing a market. But this is why NPCing stuff for gil exists in the game. It's supposed to be something players fall back to when the economy gets too deflated, as a means of bringing gil back into the economy. It keeps things from getting sold too cheaply on the market (Example: a stack of shihei bags cannot sell for much less than 30k on the AH, or else you'd end up making a greater profit by simply selling it to an NPC)

Complaining about the cost of relics really has no place in this thread. People are trying to make an argument that their only means of staying out of the poorhouse has gone down the drain and you're complaining that now you won't be able to spend millions upon millions on a fancy weapon.

And maybe you'd be left with all the other legitimate money making methods?

I mean the game did exist before the patch that increased the drop rate on all the bloods right?

And not every single person on every single server was farming this stuff right? So that means they must have some other ways of making gil.

Seriously, there wasn't this much ******** when SE nerf'd mistletoe and destroyed the remedy market, and we had actually sunken all of our time and effort into a craft to take advantage of that.

This seems to be a pretty sensitive topic lately, with the people that used this method of earning gil being the most upset (or only ones upset). I think it's pretty short-sighted when people say this change is going to kill the game economy. Yes, if you continue to remove ways to create gil in the game without adding new ways to do it, it will eventually kill the economy, but who here actually thinks this is the last change SE will ever make that influences the economy?

Fixing an economy doesn't happen overnight, and it seems SE was taking care of the first immediate problem, but when the next problem becomes apparent, I'm sure another change will come along. If the reduction of NPC value of these items truly "kills" the economy, maybe they'll reduce some of the gil sinks in the game to compensate. Honestly, I believe some of the recent changes show that they're trying to help the economy rather than ruining it, even if they don't seem to have as much of an effect on the economy.

The Fields of Valor feature giving gil is one example. Sure, a few hundred gil really doesn't mean much, but they could have just as easily charged players to use Training Manuals because what player doesn't want bonus experience, even if it costs a handful of gil?

The removal of Jeuno bazaar tax could also be a sign of SE trying to help the economy, although it really wont have more than a minor effect since players have always found ways to get around that, but maybe we'll see a reduction of Jeuno AH fees in the future as well?

Perhaps they're wanting to drain a certain amount of gil out of the economy until it reaches a point they're wanting? Maybe they want the gil rewards from quests and missions to actually be valuable. As it is now, most players would be lucky to buy a decent piece of equipment at the level they would need to complete certain missions. Gil rewards should actually be rewards, I think, not pocket change.

Really, I think the people that are really bothered by this change should relax and see where things go. Find other ways to make gil. I've never relied on NPCs for gil, and I'm an extremely casual player, I never have hours to devote to the game like some do. If this change really disrupts your playstyle that much, just quit.

I don't think it's really as big of a problem as some of you make it out to be, you're just probably upset that your quickest source of gil is gone. If it really was that much of a problem, you would have quit the game by now because it would be 'impossible' for you to earn the gil you need to play, and you wouldn't be discussing this on a forum for a game you don't play anymore.

I take it you bought yours or made gil by selling them. Either way your point is moot. We've all had to deal with rising and falling costs on both sides of the counter (so to speak). There was a good amount of people that made gil by camping and selling Emperor hairpins and Leaping boots before those were changed to a Rare/Ex status.

And I'm sure there isn't a single person in this game that hasn't purchased an item only to have it depreciate later. Igqira Weskit anyone?

So what exactly were you complaining about?

If that was the case, then where exactly does gil come into it?