
This has been discussed to death, and there's no relative marker to determine what's a lot of gil compared to not a lot of gil. It's got MMO Level Inflation all over it. To remedy this, I always just refer to sums of gil with various descriptors: A paltry sum, a week's earnings, a truly impressive sum, etcetera. When people are walking around with millions it's hard to say 10,000 is a lot, even if that buys you a hundred thousand loaves of bread to feed the hungry.