Have people complaining about gil ever played another MMO? Correct me if I'm wrong but World Of Warcraft's AH removes Gold from the game. World Of Warcraft has Gear repairs. About the only thing I Can think of WOW has for Gold income FFXIV is missing is profitable dailies.

Money has to be taken out of the game to keep the economy healthy. Otherwise it will just inflate till everyone is rich and the rest are wealthy. A commedian once said "Rich is something you can loose on a vacation to cancoon overnight, Wealth is something that get's passed down for generations" so you get the difference.

However, I will admit that gear repair costs are too high. Secondly I will admit that the games Dol and Doh design is bad. You should not have to change out of your main class to craft or gather. We can't craft in dungeons (no cooking/fishing etc), and we can't switch to do repairs. All though we don't really need to switch to do repairs in a dungeon because I never break in a dungeon by repairing before I que.