Quote Originally Posted by Craft (Cheese) View Post
On a more serious note, they said in earlier podcasts they wanted to have most things are priced in silver and copper so gold is made more valuable. That hasn't been reflected in the playtest yet, but hey, that's they claim their intention is.
That may well be what their intention actually is. Given WotC's history of realizing their intentions, or rather, their history of avoiding doing exactly that in a dizzying variety of ways, I find this completely plausible.