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Almost everyone who has posted here has some very good points about gil sellers and the rising prices of items in the ah, but the one thing that you over look is that the gil sellers do have most of us by the balls. Point being, gil sellers camp nms constantly to get the rare items that we all need, we buy the items at their reducilous prices, the gil we used to buy the item is then sold through a third party web site (ige, ect.), they camp, we buy, they sell the gil. It is a very vicious circle and there is no way we can win unless something is done about the root problem. Untill something is done the gil sellers will continue to dictate the prices. Yes the prices are comming down, but that is because the gil sellers are trying to keep the heat off of themselves, and because the holiday sales on gil are over and less ppl are buying they lower the prices in the ah so they can still stockpile gil to sell on their web sites. This is all my opinion, I have studied ecconomics and business and these gil sellers are astonishing business men, they found a formula that works, and to our dismay they dictate alot of the way that we are able to play and function in game.

Again this is how I see the situation, and I could be wrong, but let me know what you think.

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Pennadrin
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I think i had already predicted this couple months ago. New players will not survive with FF's enconomy as well as the exp/party system. With old players leaving and new players basicly just got screwed the minute they join this game. FF will die slowly. How long? i can't say, but let's hope next expension isn't FF's last one. But why would SE care, they have more than 3 titles of new MMO under beta testing and coming out soon as well as many console game titles for next year. It's not wise to throw more man power into a MMO game that has too many problems in it just to make things right and probably will not bring much greater profit by doing so, not for a buisness man. SE already made some huge profit from FF. FF will remain a profit to them. They will just adjust the budget/server equitments depend on how many players are remaining until profits are too small to even bother with.

If my estimate is right, FF has about 80% are veteran players. Just go ahead and do a /sea all <random low lvl range>, You will not see many, also do a /sea all 75 after that and go figure out the rest yourself. Those lv 75s are the core FF players, they are the one that can survive in FF's enconomy and remaining. It's not health for a MMO that only veteran players can survive, not for a long term because veteran players will eventually quit. One way for new players to survive is turn to gil-sellers. . .