Mog gardens ATMs

[FaeQueenCory]

It's such a shame that this game is having to implement features to protect idiots from themselves....

But if no one tells the turkeys that they need to stop looking up with their mouths open in the rain....
we'll just have a bunch of dead turkeys!

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I've always been of the opinion: If you do something stupid once, you'll probably not do that stupid thing again...
unless you're either REALLY dumb... or a scientist...

(stupid science conditioning us to try the same action twice to make sure it will/won't happen again)

EDIT: Y'know... maybe we are all being a bit too cynical... Just a bit.... Maybe this gil box is the alpha test for a Mog Garden item storage chest? I mean... it's not like they'd tell us before it's about to go golden... They certainly didn't for this.
And since Adoulin really isn't completed yet... let's hold out just one more update before we ...
Though I vaguely recall a statement that implies that there are no storage chest plans atm... or maybe that was just about this specific chest...
EDIT2:

Additionally, they are also looking into a new item storage feature, which is separate from your Gobbiebag and Mog Safe and will hold a large amount of items in exchange for not being able to check it constantly while you are out adventuring. As this involves implementing a totally new system, it will take some time to get this ready, but we will first be looking into the Gobbiebag expansion that we can implement somewhat quicker.

Aha! So maybe I'm actually on to something and this crappy little chest really IS the alpha model for a new item storage thing!

[dasva]

If you are sober enough to know to put away a bunch of gil into this box you are sober enough not to overbid...

Also the if you get someone to translate the jp post of this or just use google it heavily implies something happens when you store enough gil. But english dev says nothing happens... so which is it?

[FrankReynolds]

If you are sober enough to know to put away a bunch of gil into this box you are sober enough not to overbid...

Also the if you get someone to translate the jp post of this or just use google it heavily implies something happens when you store enough gil. But english dev says nothing happens... so which is it?

If you are JP, something happens. If you speak English, nothing happens.

[radicaldreamer]

It would be nice if there was something like.. If you had a million gil in the box, it attracted a thief to your mog garden. (A goblin? A leafkin? One of those sunglasses-wearing moogles?)

This could be for a side quest battle of some sort, and if you won, you could have the thief work on your island like the other assistants. Only difference would be, you had to keep at least 10K gil in the chest to keep him/her interested in the island, rather than paying the moogle 10K gil for each week. If you spent the gil in the chest to under 10K then he would leave and it'd take another 1mil gil to lure him/her back.

This way it would not be a profit making item that you win, AND the chest becomes less useless for the average player.

[dasva]

Turns out if you put a decent amount in it (not sure exact amount but it's not more than 10 mil) it turns into a gold box... that's it. Went all the way up to 100 mil and nothing else. Speaking of which 100mil is a dumb cap to put on it when there are items worth more than that and they trying to prevent overbids so yeah people could have that much.

Seriously though this thing is completely useless at best can't believe they actually spent the manpower coming up with this idea and then implementing it when there are plenty of things currently broken with the game let alone all the balance issues currently

[FrankReynolds]

Turns out if you put a decent amount in it (not sure exact amount but it's not more than 10 mil) it turns into a gold box... that's it. Went all the way up to 100 mil and nothing else. Speaking of which 100mil is a dumb cap to put on it when there are items worth more than that and they trying to prevent overbids so yeah people could have that much.

Seriously though this thing is completely useless at best can't believe they actually spent the manpower coming up with this idea and then implementing it when there are plenty of things currently broken with the game let alone all the balance issues currently

Seriously. This is thing is just a giant middle finger in the middle of your garden. It's like they figured that people would just stop doing the things that suck and forget them, so they needed a way to remind people how much they don't care.