Quote Originally Posted by Harlow View Post
As an aside: what exactly are folks spending all of these hundreds of millions that they make off of re-selling on? I've never got this. Are you hording hunting hawks? Are you doing this for a sense of power? Maybe they're just hording money for the sake of seeing the gil counter go up? I can't think of a single thing in this game that would require a cash flow like that is all I guess. It's honestly easier to justify greed in the real world because at least I can buy something other than a shinier pair of pants when it comes to actual money.
Reselling stuff is clean money ( I know sounds hilarious ) - it has no additional costs.While crafting etc. is just endless earning and spending.

I am just a poor blacksmith making kettles most of the time, but when I started crafting I realized one thing - You can never have enough gil.

When I was just a simple white mage I had about 1M and was happy with it.

Then I started crafting some low level items and was happy with having few millions. This allowed me to start buying simple things like furniture for my new FC room.

Then I hit level 60 and was... shocked! I needed gear, I needed melds. That moment my perception of gil shifted. Suddenly I was not even able to afford crafting materials because HQ mats cost more than HQ products and I lacked the gear/melds to compete with the market.

Gear and melds cost money. A lot of money. You can look at someone making 100M through resale of a house and alone it seems like they will never ever need more gil.

But if they decided to start crafting... the full crafting gear about 30M (depends on the market). Melding? Easily 10M a piece => 13 slots x 10M => 130M + 30M = 160M. And help derp you are minus 60M and you wonder where did all the gil go~

tl;dr A lot of money for one person is not enough money for another one.