Should SE sell Gil (similar to WOW Tokens)

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Originally Posted by Endeleon

But then wouldn't that effectively make a sub game P2W? Uh, no thanks.

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Win what? PLEASE show me where I can buy 340 gear with gil. Because everywhere I look, it's weekly lock-outs.

I'm serious. If you're claiming it's P2W with gil, I need to know where you're shopping that I'm not. I've subscribed to this thread! I can't wait to see this!

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Originally Posted by Darkobra

Win what? PLEASE show me where I can buy 340 gear with gil. Because everywhere I look, it's weekly lock-outs.

I'm serious. If you're claiming it's P2W with gil, I need to know where you're shopping that I'm not. I've subscribed to this thread! I can't wait to see this!

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Um OK, pentamelded 320 crafted set. For some classes some pieces like this are actually bis. Also the ones that aren't bis can come pretty close to put you in the ball park of elites for gear at least.

Aren't the cherry trees in the mog station tradeable?

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Originally Posted by Roda

Aren't the cherry trees in the mog station tradeable?

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Authentic Eastern Cherry Tree
Untradable, Unsellable, Market Prohibited

*This is an untradable version of an item available during a past in-game event.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...m/7424dcfd02c/

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Originally Posted by Roda

Aren't the cherry trees in the mog station tradeable?

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I'm going to guess yes, because even if you are soul bound on purchase you can use housing rules to cheat that.

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Originally Posted by Miles_Maelstrom

Um OK, pentamelded 320 crafted set. For some classes some pieces like this are actually bis. Also the ones that aren't bis can come pretty close to put you in the ball park of elites for gear at least.

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That was the opposite of answering my question. Thanks for playing.

And I know, it's an MMO. You can literally walk through the game. Stay out the yellow circles, ten second warnings before attacks... The hardest challenge is finding people that have gamed before 2000 in this game. So... again. Pay to win WHAT?! I honest to God do raids while watching Gotham on Netflix so I have SOME form of mental stimulation. I mean, come on. Anthony Carrigan.

Also, would you REALLY spend real money on gear that'll be outdated in February? Sounds like Square ARE going to make some money out of this... GO SQUARE! WE HAVE PEOPLE HERE THAT WILL FUND FF7 REMAKE!

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Originally Posted by Lazaruz

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People working for more gil is different than say, having the game create currency by you selling to an NPC. People already farm gil but it's far harder to farm gil in FFXIV than WoW anyway.
Here are the ways the game creates gil:
-completing quests, FATEs, Challenge Log and levequests
-defeating certain enemies (some humanoids drop gil but only 1-2 gil each)
-selling various items to NPCs

Farming for gil involves doing content. In WoW you can just farm monsters for gold. You can't do that in FFXIV. Therefore, people farming for gil is a good thing in FFXIV honestly. And I honestly can't see prices going up due to excessive farming anyway. Sooooo many people in FFXIV have excess gil that is just sitting not being used. The only big gil sink is housing which not everyone can access. Tokens would create an economy where more gil moves around and more content is done more often.

What's up with all those threads asking SE to add this or that on store for real money? Aren't the extra services like retainers/name change/fantasia/mounts/items enough already? Are you so bad at playing the game that you want to buy everything from the store? Time to find a more useful way to spend your real money. It's so easy to make gils already in game and after all they are pretty much useless. You can't buy a house with them or proper gear. All you can buy is some minions and skins on market board which are mostly cheap. Stop playing with your wallet and start playing with your keyboards/controllers.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

What's up with all those threads asking SE to add this or that on store for real money? Aren't the extra services like retainers/name change/fantasia/mounts/items enough already? Are you so bad at playing the game that you want to buy everything from the store? Time to find a more useful way to spend your real money. It's so easy to make gils already in game and after all they are pretty much useless. You can't buy a house with them or proper gear. All you can buy is some minions and skins on market board which are mostly cheap. Stop playing with your wallet and start playing with your keyboards/controllers.

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What about the people who don't have a lot of money who have millions of gil and would love to spend some of it for game time? Stop thinking about who would sell tokens and start thinking about who would buy them.

The fact of the matter is, people are going to buy gil, no matter what SE does to stop it.

So why would they not just offer their own alternative?

The housing issue is not going to be solved by limiting personal player wealth. What will solve it is finding a way for servers to accomodate player desire.