What's the point for $50m Gil to do the Cloud beta test if you can't keep it?

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I got mine by ranking up with my GC and buying them with seals.

Then I bought more with my leftover seals and sold them for 600k each. I sold over 200 Glamour Prisms at that price in less than an hour.

How do the rich players get rich? By selling the things that other players can't live without and will pay almost any price to get.

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To be fair, the economy on the cloud server is... well, literally everyone has been told "the world is ending next Tuesday and you don't get to keep the money" so nobody is spending it in a rational manner. There is no need to save it for the future, and very little need to earn more than you started with.

If someone is charging a million gil for something that would normally cost 100 gil, whatever. I get on with my game and they get to roll around in their virtual money pit for the next few days, and we all end up back where we were. It's hardly any different than if they were selling it for free.

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Originally Posted by hynaku

I thought at first you got to keep the 50 mil but then read and found out you didn't. What's the point of helping out with the testing for no rewards and loosing precious playtime.

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Oh, I don't know, maybe so that you can tell them if the cloud servers are a good idea or not since if they work well enough then you'll benefit from being able to play them in the long run?

The gil is literally there for the purpose of enabling you to do whatever you need to do to test out the servers. That's it. It's that simple.