(02-10-2016, 08:53 PM)Edda Wrote: Yes, it is an odd situation to say the least.Considering there's sub-reddits for house buying and some people are willing to fork over 30 million+ for a small (not to mention what they'll fork over for a medium), it's very likely. Especially if they can't find or get a house in the area they want I'm sure they'll just spend the gil on other things.
Balmung's in-game item prices are relatively cheap, due to being a massive server with healthy activity in each section of the economy - RPers buy items that would be seen as more of a commodity on other servers.
But because it's such a massive server and now near-impossible to get into, RMT prices for Balmung are absolutely ridiculous compared to other servers.
But... since the in-game gil prices are cheap... why buy gil?
Housing.
Yep, that's it.
Which can some times crash markets, then stuff gets relisted at differing prices that would otherwise be ridiculous, and so on and so forth.
We're both lucky to have the server economy we do and also very unfortunate.