FFXIV - A Step to P2W (My 2.45 Feedback)

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Gil does buy the stats to craft the 4-star "endgame" recipes same goes for gathering unspoiled nodes. Gil can buy the leve items to level a craft or gathering job to 50. Macros make up for skill in crafts(no skill involved in copy/paste)

How isn't this pay to win at least for crafting and gathering?

I'm not sure what your experience level in crafting is, but unless they have truly unlimited funding, an couple million gil will get you nowhere close to 4 star stats in crafting. hell, I've blown through 50 mil, and am still nowhere close.

Also, macro crafts will only get you so far. We do not yet have a macro for 4 star crafts. and 3 star is still very iffy.

Unspoiled node gathering, 99% isn't limited by stats. you can get the stats easy. remembering to be in the right place to gather at the right time, to get the items you need for progression at a low RNG chance, that's more than half of it, and all the gil in the world wont buy that.

Remember, the primary tokens for progression in both crafting and gathering are untradeable. you can buy the mats for them, but you still need skill to HQ them.

essentially, you can only get so far, even in crafting and gathering, with 5, 10, 15, 20 mil gil. and I seriously doubt that someone is spending four to five hundred dollars on this game, just to buy marriage bracelets, in hopes of finding 10-15 people who have 5 million to spend this way.

edit: so I just checked my server, and the bracelets are down to 1 mil per. so lets talk about spending a thousand dollars, to get to 4 star.