Mog Bonanza is Back!

[JackDaniels]

I have a suggestion, maybe make the marbles free. Otherwise I'm not going to waste my money. Sick and tired of blowing a fortune for me and my mule to obtain maybe some tacky statues or a chocobo stable scarf.

How about a seperate category for long term players? (This March I celebrate my 10th FFXI anniversary.) In all the times I've entered the Mog Bonanza there was only once that I won something that wasn't rank 5 or nothing. Would be nice to have a category with fewer people to compete against and would also give the FFXI team a chance to show their appreciation to all the people who have walked this 10 year journey with them.

Or you could just not play.

a voucher to instantly complete a HMP trial for a rank 3 prize, voucher to instantly complete a 1st riftdross/riftcinder trial for a rank 2 prize, and a voucher to complete an afterglow trial as a grand prize would be nice.

I would play if the lowest tier prizes included insta-trial finishers.

I'd like to see the Nomad Moogle Statue and Odin Statue in Rank 5.

Or how about we make all the prizes only statues?

[Jaall]

I have a suggestion, maybe make the marbles free. Otherwise I'm not going to waste my money. Sick and tired of blowing a fortune for me and my mule to obtain maybe some tacky statues or a chocobo stable scarf.



Or you could just not play.



I would play if the lowest tier prizes included insta-trial finishers.



Or how about we make all the prizes only statues?

Lol I think someones a bit of a sore loser... classic example of somebody who wants everything handed to them. I can't imagine you'd say that about lottery in the real world but then maybe you do. If there's 1-10 winners out of millions and it's not you, then tough luck, keep trying or give up but keep it to yourself. Lottery is never free, only a bonus.

[JackDaniels]

Lol I think someones a bit of a sore loser... classic example of somebody who wants everything handed to them. I can't imagine you'd say that about lottery in the real world but then maybe you do. If there's 1-10 winners out of millions and it's not you, then tough luck, keep trying or give up but keep it to yourself. Lottery is never free, only a bonus.

Hardly, it's just disheartening. This is why I don't gamble IRL, but, believe it or not, FFXI is just a game xD

But I will concede to admitting that I am bitter towards this event in general, not a sore loser. The only time I got tier 4, it was a statue on my mule, of prishe, the only furniture he has. (or was it shadow lord on my main, i don't remember)

[Prrsha]

I have a suggestion, maybe make the marbles free. Otherwise I'm not going to waste my money. Sick and tired of blowing a fortune for me and my mule to obtain maybe some tacky statues or a chocobo stable scarf.

A nice purpose the lottery serves is to help (by a very small margin) to remove gil from this otherwise bloated, inflated economy. Count yourself lucky that the dev's haven't factored in the current prices of AH items and have made marbles 100k each. The only reason in not doing so I'd imagine is the fact they would like newer players to take part in the event (which is a good thing).

Offtopic: I wonder if SE will end up sometime in the future, raise hourglass costs for dynamis or other events... or reduce the rate of which gil is obtained from other means. The latter way might be moot as the damage is done already. In FFXIV they have reduced all of the gil that current players possess by a percentage. I don't know if this is the right way to go about things but something has to be done soon or the gap between legit starting players and long time vets will grow even further. Current cluster prices are sort of an odd note now. The rich don't want to spend the time to farm them but the poor are more then willing to do so for the prices they are going at. It's one of the few low level items that sell fast (and have a decent value) and can be obtained with little effort by a low level player.

[JackDaniels]

A nice purpose the lottery serves is to help (by a very small margin) to remove gil from this otherwise bloated, inflated economy. Count yourself lucky that the dev's haven't factored in the current prices of AH items and have made marbles 100k each. The only reason in not doing so I'd imagine is the fact they would like newer players to take part in the event (which is a good thing).

If you have not noticed, everything in the AH costs 4-40k with exception to really rare HQ lv86+ equipment (and mats) which can run for 400k-4M.

New people such as myself (i only have 15 days playtime on this character, my old character is forever lost) are totally effing screwed. I was lucky enough to get a flame gem somehow, idr, (most vets in my ls were surprised themselves), which got me 2.5m in the AH. I bought two pieces of armor, a crummy dagger, and some gobbie bag upgrades. Your perception of how the market in FFXI is now compared to pre-abyssea is a little skewed.

Either way, as analhyme stated, the gil prizes = gil raised/winners. It makes sense to charge for the lottery, but the rewards are pretty laugh worthy when you've spent hundreds of thousands on this lottery over the years only to get statues. Now, if I could vendor statues in for 10-50k each, then I'd be really interested.

[Khajit]

If you have not noticed, everything in the AH costs 4-40k with exception to really rare HQ lv86+ equipment (and mats) which can run for 400k-4M.

New people such as myself (i only have 15 days playtime on this character, my old character is forever lost) are totally effing screwed. I was lucky enough to get a flame gem somehow, idr, (most vets in my ls were surprised themselves), which got me 2.5m in the AH. I bought two pieces of armor, a crummy dagger, and some gobbie bag upgrades. Your perception of how the market in FFXI is now compared to pre-abyssea is a little skewed.

Either way, as analhyme stated, the gil prizes = gil raised/winners. It makes sense to charge for the lottery, but the rewards are pretty laugh worthy when you've spent hundreds of thousands on this lottery over the years only to get statues. Now, if I could vendor statues in for 10-50k each, then I'd be really interested.

Because there totally isn't rare EX equipment you can get everywhere fairly easily until you get to being capable of attacking things in your abyssea parties. Nope No-siree. Square enix definitely didn't sprinkle basic useful gear all over the place. And they definitely dont give you money for mission completion, basic GOV fights that you should be doing, or any of the random quests spread about that people have been doing since day one. It's totally harder now.
This in the off chance you haven't figured it out already is sarcasm.
The only thing harder nowadays is trying to convert cruor into gil since that would normaly have easily geared up people into decent stuff.