[FayteEternal]

I'm still doing research and plowing through as much information as I can about PSU so again, if this topic has been covered you'll have to forgive me.
Assuming money in PSU will still be called "Meseta", I'm just curious if it's value and substance will be altered for PSU.
An example would be in previous PSO games (Console FF games as well) meseta was for all intents and purposes - worthless. Everyone had 9999999 meseta in the bank and probably on them. The same can be said for FF console games where gathering large sums of gil was really painless and easy. However the value of gil radically changed in FFXI where making gil was difficult.
So, I'm curious if Meseta will actually be valued and obtained from an economic stand-point in PSU, or will everyone have 999999 in their banks again...
Your thoughts on this please/

[Kupi]

"We don't know and we can't know because we have not had direct experience with the game and Sonic Team has not told us about it."

That'll answer 95% of questions about this game right now.

To speculate, however, it looks like Sonic Team is trying to make the Meseta more valuable with a system that resembles a player-driven economy, but something about the weapon vendors in towns reminds me of PSO's well nigh useless shops. It could go either way; given the precedent, I'd say it leans toward a valueless Meseta.

[physic]

I think meseta will have worth, but i dont think it will have ffxi worth, look towards probably a guild wars level of worth. The way they make weapons customizable means that you will probably need decent amounts of cash on teh ready, as well as needing to get duplicate rares, if you wish to upgrade them. i imagine other things wil need cash as well

[Pseudo]

I hope they dont put a tax on items when trading, the whole idea of getting inflation in a game makes me laugh. No doubt you`ll see people selling things for a ludicrous price to stop everyone from having 9mil meseta, as far as im concerned i never worryied that much about money in the games and always used the weapons,armour etc that i found from drops.

However I'd probably save up for clothing items and My room ornaments ^_^

[FayteEternal]

Hmm 9 mil meseta eh? Well that brings up the idea of individual player money cap exceeding 999,999. The thing about using what you find is in large MMO's many many rare items/armor's require a large number of players, skill and time to defeat the mobs that drop them. Another aspect is certain rare and valuable items come from high level crafting/synthesis. Interesting to see how it goes...

[OdinTyler]

Well I know I intend to be a crafter (& 1 of the better known ones). Having had past experiences of having to rely on others for items, some charge exorbitant amounts. Of course, crafting costs a fortune too, but, I can always make that back...or so thats the idea. I'm sure meseta will have more value in that an auction house was introduced as well as tons of items to wear & display within your home.

[Forever Zero]

I sure hope it's not as valuable as FFXI gil. I swear, I spent more time making gil in FFXI than actually PLAYING the game. That was no fun.

[FayteEternal]

That's the beauty of crafting and camping NM's/
I landed 35 million gil for the Shura Haidate-1 I made, over 125 million gil for my splits from selling 3 kraken clubs (Lord of Onzozo dropped 3 for us in the 2 years we camped it off and on) and millions from BCNMs/ENMs. So it's possible the comparison between the values of meseta and gil could be similar, we shall see

[fumatanera]

the whole ecomony of FFXI completely turned me off to that game. it's trying too hard. how is that an aspet of gameplay? spending more time farming and camping certain monsters over and over than advancing in the actual game and leveling your character. i hope PSU's economy isn't that ridiculous. i'd rather have it the same as PSO with almost no economy than to have FFXI's.
crafting can very interesting and rewarding, but again if it takes more time than actually advancing in the game, it's not worth it.

[Jonathan_F]

Meseta did drop in the E3 demo. Ammounts of about 100 each I think.