Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
And yet my armor rating remains the same while my gil piles ever higher. I think I have a right to complain that the way I play the game is not being rewarded properly since I'm not progressing in anyway. (I don't necessarily want raid level gear, but it would be nice if all that gil I earned could keep my progression going. As it is, I'm peaked with my Amenos gear, and gil can't improve that at the moment.)

So your saying that Raiders would stop raiding if they could get raid gear from the Marketboard? Are you sure those raiders are having fun?
Your gil can keep your progression going, pay the raiders to take you through the content if you really want the gear but honestly you don't deserve to have it imo.

As for stopping raiding, it probably wouldn't stop everyone but it would de-incentivise people to take part in the content for two reasons 1) if they could get the gear just by buying it 2) the gear is part epeen, it's a physical representative of saying " I cleared this". Make it market tradable then you dilute the point in having it.

Honestly this all just sounds like people who are either too lazy or bad at the game complaining that they can't be given the same stuff as people who put in effort to clear the content.