I know this is sort of a dead horse topic, but I am trying to take it in a new direction so bear with me for a moment please. Personally I was dissapointed at the response we received about how they plan to squash RMT and Inflation in the game and it got me thinking.
When you complain about inflation, are you upset that the numbers or the price is actually just annoying because it's a really large number or is it that you find something too expensive or otherwise somewhat unobtainable for purchase? I know it's a wierd question, but I don't find the two to be all that related to be honest and I think SE is getting the wrong message when all we do is complain about inflation.
I personally find things too expensive, and the price doesn't have to do so much about it but instead it's absolute value and rarity is what bothers me. I don't really care if it costs 30 million or 300 million gil, because gil is just a magic number and what's important is the relative cost in comparison to other items. 30 Million is just a number until I factor in that it's 3600 stacks if shihei. If the economy deflates so that shihei is below 1k a stack and the item I want is 3 million it's still going to cost me 3600 stacks of shihei and nothing has really changed, except a series of numbers.
Anyways I am just curious, maybe I am wrong and people are truly bothered by inflation itself. I'd like to know though, I wrote an article about it but it sounds more like a rant, but if we're giving SE the wrong message I think it would be good to maybe change the wording around and get the real problem fixed.
http://ffxi.stratics.com/content/fanfest/inflation.php
Any comments are appreciated, that article is posted but I will probably revise it shortly because it's too personal. I just wanted to see if I was on to something before I took it further.