Buying class boost for gil - Money making

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

Do you know anyone who did it? And is it no different from buying a WoW token each month?

If you buy all the classes, so one class each month, after buying them all, you'll end up with nearly 10k mil gil.

There's not really any sort of moral dilemma here, but it is also nothing like buying a WoW token. These are one-time purchases.

People definitely do it for some reason.. But Gil is so easy to come by, only new players might do it.

.. Do you need 500k? Why spend $25?

That's what $475 for 9.5mil?

I'll just.. Give you a mil. lol

I did it literally once, on my first character.
I had just noticed a price drop on a house and realized it had just entered the sweet spot, so I boosted BLM (which was super annoying to level pre-EW) so I could join the bid spammers by the placard.
Got the house too!

I boosted Monk during SHB to 70 because I'd already leveled it twice on other characters to 80, and didn't want to experience leveling it from 60 to 70 again. The 500k was a nice little bonus that made me consider it, since it would essentially be legal gil purchasing, exorbitant though it might be.

You could theoretically do it endlessly if you had money to really blow like that. All you would have to do is keep creating new characters, buying boosts for them, and then transferring the money through a friend, second account, or FC box.

But man, that's really scalping yourself.

Why in gods name would anyone pay $21 for 500k gil.

When you can just go craft some low level 20-50lvl recipes and put them on the marketboard and make bank.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

Do you know anyone who did it? And is it no different from buying a WoW token each month?

If you buy all the classes, so one class each month, after buying them all, you'll end up with nearly 10k mil gil.

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I remember waaaay back in ARR I bought a Culinarian leveling for 500K. They supplied all the HQ foods you'd need to level up via the leve system.

I had no idea how efficient this was until I witnessed it first hand.

So not only did I get a job boosted, but I learned a new, more efficient way to level. Seems like a great investment in hindsight.

It is in fact a fraction of the gil you would get if you would push the job/story naturally. I find it fair that you get the gil you would get through the quests, ARR gives a lot of gil through all the allagan coin rewards from quests.

And also i find the boosts also priced really fairly, it's the amount of money you would spend on the sub fee if you would play the character up normally.

So yeah no worries it is morally alright to be a whale tho i feel a bit bad for those people, i can go make bunny fates in Eureka and get 1m-5m gil in three hours. Doesn't even take effort just being afk and reading a book...i do it while i study mostly. With boosts that would be like over a 100 bucks? I would say boost once if you don't care about the story and then read some guides on how to make gil quick, through retainers you can make massive amounts of gil even without playing the game at all.

<< I been finished the story, and my Dancer isn't boosted, I was being theoretical, and if I should try making ez 500k gil monthly via buying the boost. Not buying them all together like a slow person heh.

Honestly, if yall know ways I can make gil that doesn't involve crafting, let me know. I wanna buy a 10k mil mount and 10x Thavnarian Onions for my Chocobo. Really the only reason I want more gil lel, I passively buy the other stuff in my wishlist, like potions, food, tinctures, etc.

I mean, it's your money. No one's going to care if you play that job or not. If $25 bucks is worth 500k gil to you, then by all means.

I generally make a few hundred thousand gil a week without even really trying to and you can make more if you do fairly quickly.

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Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

Why in gods name would anyone pay $21 for 500k gil.

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It's called instant gratification. Many other games have fallen because of this pesky human trait. Just lay back and enjoy the ride, lol.

Well it's your money so do what you want. 500K is a small amount of money though and honestly gil doesn't really have many uses in the endgame. It's good for some glamor, mounts, or buying HQ items for GC turn ins.

Housing if you are lucky. That's about it after that. Most any other uses for it get replaced with mats. Want to repair? There is a mat for that if you have the skill level on your crafters. Teleports? There is an item for that to do free or discounted teleports.

I guess of hard-core in raiding you can buy food/pots. Or make it yourself.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

There's not really any sort of moral dilemma here, but it is also nothing like buying a WoW token. These are one-time purchases.

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IIRC they are not, you can buy them as much as you want. They are also IN MY OPINION worse than WoW tokens cause WoW tokens dont generate gold, they are a good that can be traded for other peoples gold, the Job Boosts generate gil, inflating the game more and more everytime one is purchased

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Originally Posted by Shinkuno

IIRC they are not, you can buy them as much as you want. They are also IN MY OPINION worse than WoW tokens cause WoW tokens dont generate gold, they are a good that can be traded for other peoples gold, the Job Boosts generate gil, inflating the game more and more everytime one is purchased

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The boosts are one per character for each Job. Though eligibility does technically get reset with every expansion as they release a new updated set of boosts. Adding another 40€/$ to the total cost (and a potential 1mil Gil extra) with the previous expansion's Jobs...

But still, you're paying hundreds of cash for an effectively inconsequential amount of in-game gil. Not worth it unless you're a billionaire who has more money than common sense.

I think they're more intended for alt characters and what not, maybe if you want to have a character on 2 different regions and what not and don't want to go through the work of leveling both.

Experience is easy to come by. So is gil. However, some people would rather trade real-life cash for in-game benefits so they don't have to do that grind. Just remember, journey before destination. If your goal is only the destination, you'll likely not find much joy in it if you arrive without the journey.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Honestly, if yall know ways I can make gil that doesn't involve crafting, let me know. I wanna buy a 10k mil mount and 10x Thavnarian Onions for my Chocobo. Really the only reason I want more gil lel, I passively buy the other stuff in my wishlist, like potions, food, tinctures, etc.

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The first 500,000k you got should be used to finance lvling your crafting. And really, you can do that in less than a week while making back most of it, then you can start earning gil probably. Or have one battle class and one crafting at 90 and just ... play the game, weekly, daily, clear your challenge log, doing hunt, customer delivery .etc. you'll have 500k a week just by "playing" the game even without actively trying to make gil.

Trying to buy gil at the booster rate is not ... really sustainable even with a disposable income given how many thing you would want to buy (and trust me, once you check off the last item of your current wishlist, you'll just make another list). Even if you can afford it, the amount you need to spend will put you upthere with a gacha addict.

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Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard

The boosts are one per character for each Job. Though eligibility does technically get reset with every expansion as they release a new updated set of boosts. Adding another 40€/$ to the total cost (and a potential 1mil Gil extra) with the previous expansion's Jobs...

But still, you're paying hundreds of cash for an effectively inconsequential amount of in-game gil. Not worth it unless you're a billionaire who has more money than common sense.

I think they're more intended for alt characters and what not, maybe if you want to have a character on 2 different regions and what not and don't want to go through the work of leveling both.

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See thats what i thought aswell, but i heared someone say that you can buy them over and over if you dont use the boost books

Technically, the thread starter is right. There is a possibility to buy Gil for real money without violating the TOS. But it is still abolutely not comparable to WoW and the token. WoW is muuuuuch worse here because you can buy many tokens over and over again.


Cheers

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Technically, the thread starter is right. There is a possibility to buy Gil for real money without violating the TOS. But it is still abolutely not comparable to WoW and the token. WoW is muuuuuch worse here because you can buy many tokens over and over again.


Cheers

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The token only works as long as someone is willing to buy them, do people here even know how to it works?

As someone who played WoW since WoD. WoW token is guaranteed to sell in under 5 hours.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

Do you know anyone who did it? And is it no different from buying a WoW token each month?

If you buy all the classes, so one class each month, after buying them all, you'll end up with nearly 10k mil gil.

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Idk what classes you have leveled / available. Roulettes can net you 100k easy in a day just for playing. More if you’re the supposed “class in need”.

Gatherers can net you a fair amount if you don’t over saturate the market. Say purple carrots for example can be 300 g one day. 1000 g the next so long as you are selling stacks of 10 and not 99 and don’t have 10 stacks of them for sale at once. Easy money for 5 minutes of gathering.

I wouldn’t spend real money, in that amount for a measily amount of Gil.

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Originally Posted by Kolaina

Idk what classes you have leveled / available. Roulettes can net you 100k easy in a day just for playing. More if you’re the supposed “class in need”.

Gatherers can net you a fair amount if you don’t over saturate the market. Say purple carrots for example can be 300 g one day. 1000 g the next so long as you are selling stacks of 10 and not 99 and don’t have 10 stacks of them for sale at once. Easy money for 5 minutes of gathering.

I wouldn’t spend real money, in that amount for a measily amount of Gil.

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Kolaina rights. Mao makes tons of Gils doings the gatherings. Mao also makes tons of Gils doings the treasure maps. Retainers also help Mao makes Gils doings quick explorations. Sometimes retainers come back with venture crates containing black or white dyes and Mao just made 1/2 to 1 million Gils. Is nots hard to make Gils. Just needs to be persistent.

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Originally Posted by Shinkuno

The token only works as long as someone is willing to buy them, do people here even know how to it works?

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A lot of us knows how it works.

The question would be (if interested in doing it), what would SE make available to the player who gives up their gil? Blizzard made a lot of mistakes with the WoW token when they decided it could be converted to Battle.net Balance instead of being restricted to game time, or at least WoW account services.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

A lot of us knows how it works.

The question would be (if interested in doing it), what would SE make available to the player who gives up their gil? Blizzard made a lot of mistakes with the WoW token when they decided it could be converted to Battle.net Balance instead of being restricted to game time, or at least WoW account services.

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i think most people still buy it for the sub time, not for the bnet balance, only a small handful of "too rich to ever be broke" people use it to buy games or account services

I don't want a system that simply officially allow some form of RMT.

If they gonna put sub-token or mogstation stuffs into the game, it should be strictly as an inflation fighting measure. These items are bought with gil from the NPC with the gil removed from the game completely, not transfer from one player to another.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

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It's not a morally bad thing to do, just a colossal waste of money. 500k for $25 isn't a good deal, especially with how easy it is to make gil.

I would however recommend learning whatever job you skipped outside of instanced content if you ever do change your mind and want to try that job.

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Originally Posted by Eraden

Kolaina rights. Mao makes tons of Gils doings the gatherings. Mao also makes tons of Gils doings the treasure maps. Retainers also help Mao makes Gils doings quick explorations. Sometimes retainers come back with venture crates containing black or white dyes and Mao just made 1/2 to 1 million Gils. Is nots hard to make Gils. Just needs to be persistent.

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Is this the sequel account to Graeham?

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Originally Posted by AwesomeJr44

It's not a morally bad thing to do, just a colossal waste of money. 500k for $25 isn't a good deal, especially with how easy it is to make gil.

I would however recommend learning whatever job you skipped outside of instanced content if you ever do change your mind and want to try that job.



Is this the sequel account to Graeham?

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Mao does nots understand what AwesomeJr44 means by this.

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Originally Posted by Raven2014

I don't want a system that simply officially allow some form of RMT.

If they gonna put sub-token or mogstation stuffs into the game, it should be strictly as an inflation fighting measure. These items are bought with gil from the NPC with the gil removed from the game completely, not transfer from one player to another.

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Allowing it is pretty much just a formality. Let's be honest, the Final Fantasy market is full of RMT gil. If you don't see that, fooling yourself. It doesn't make financial sense for a company to go after RMT too hard. I think a lot of people don't realize how common RMT is these days. People always say "there are so many bots" well, I wonder why.

i should really do maps, i made soooo much gil from it

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Originally Posted by drtasteyummy

Allowing it is pretty much just a formality. Let's be honest, the Final Fantasy market is full of RMT gil. If you don't see that, fooling yourself.

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Where did I say I don't see the RMT market?

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It doesn't make financial sense for a company to go after RMT too hard. I think a lot of people don't realize how common RMT is these days. People always say "there are so many bots" well, I wonder why.

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My post has very little to do with RMT as in how I see it, tbh I don't really care about RMT itself. I just want that if SE gonna put real money stuff into the game, it will be used as a way to combat inflation. Allowing it to be used as an RMT tool means it can't be used to reduce inflation, that's all.

I doubt people do it for the gil, you can even earn loads of gil being lowlevel crafter... and or just picking up stuff and the likes...

If you got an alt... I would not mind to just boost through everything on that alt as already done the content before... though am to cheap to pay for a boost as it is nice to re-play the game from scratch now and then.

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Originally Posted by Eraden

Mao does nots understand

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ngl, it's starting to seem cute now UwU

Lol black market gil is far cheaper, by two orders of magnitude. That should tell you how much people actually value gil in this game (especially since it's risky and wrong, which will be priced in). It's 100% not worth it.

Paying $25 to buy 500k gil doesn't make you a bad person or morally wrong. It just makes you stupid.

If you want to make gil but don't like crafting/gathering, just level fishing to 90 through ocean expedition. Finish the quests up to 70 to get the GP boost (just buy the fish on the marketboard), but this is frankly optional. Then fish for jhinga, and sell the jhinga. It's incredibly easy and you can get this started within half a day.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Do you know anyone who did it?

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Unfortunately yes.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

i should really do maps, i made soooo much gil from it

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Usually make ~500-600k in just gil from my FC's 2 hour map event we do every week. If I get good drops it shoots up even higher. Made 3m in one night a few weeks ago.

there's no moral dilemma it's a videogame, if you think 25 bucks is worth 500k gil more power to you

there's cheaper options out there anyhow

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Originally Posted by Alaray

there's no moral dilemma it's a videogame, if you think 25 bucks is worth 500k gil more power to you

there's cheaper options out there anyhow

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Ah. Sounds like someone who’s keeping the rmt market alive. The bots would go away if people would stop buying

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

Do you know anyone who did it? And is it no different from buying a WoW token each month?

If you buy all the classes, so one class each month, after buying them all, you'll end up with nearly 10k mil gil.

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Well 10 million gil or whatever is not much at all and the cost for getting gil that way is simply not worth it.

You get gil from almost everything in this game and most of these people that buy a boost is probably just to get an alt up high or the likes, gameplay wise if first character, it doesn't really pay off at all to just boost through.

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Originally Posted by MahthildisMMORPG

Is it morally okay to buy a shop class boost for classes you have no intention of playing for the 500k gil?

Do you know anyone who did it? And is it no different from buying a WoW token each month?

If you buy all the classes, so one class each month, after buying them all, you'll end up with nearly 10k mil gil.

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I bought a boost, to cheese the dungeons solo. I am only playing for the main quest, then "Adiós"

Every MMO has P2W elements. People are in denial, P2W is profanity....shouldn't be.

We have a saying in bodybuilding "Nobody ever got fat off chicken breast & broccoli."

Context is important, what kind of chicken breast and broccoli? Fried? With a ton of dressing sauce?

P2W is not inherently bad. In many MMO like XIV, they are optional & provide a temporary edge. I will be stronger than everybody else who started the game, but that is until they reach the lvl cap.

The gil is nice though, if you got money to blow, go for it. if you can afford to play XIV, you can afford the boost. I would do it when they go on sale, but ya don't have to.

I have no shame about it. XIV is not my main MMO. I am a lvl 80 with the sprout over my head & everything......I play XIV like it was X; solo.

Go for it bruh. They are in the mogstation to be purchased, that is what they are made for.