Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Not only that, but it makes gil even more useless when literally any rare item will probably become a cheap lootbox drop in the future. Why spend millions on a fancy pet when it could cost 5k later on.

Most minions and certain mounts are tradable for a reason. It gives you something to sell if you get a lucky drop, or it gives you something to do with your gil. Or it might give you a reason to revisit old content to bolster your collection.

With loot coffers, quick ventures, moogle tomes and so on they're slowly making large amounts of old content and all crafting below max level obsolete.
Agreed. I spent months running dungeons and different things to get minions and music rolls. Ran treasure maps like a fiend, had two Capybara Pups on MB when 6.0 rolled in, instantly worth 90% less value. I'm not mad at the time I spent doing these things, because in the moment, it was fun.

I do have to say though that my drive to play the game has lessened recently as my original drive was being a completionist and taking pride in my collection where I had rare things that you have to get to Floor 150 of POTD for, for example. The Pegasus mount is what I'm speaking of. Now, you can just hope you get it in a lockbox.

Heck, I grinded for days in Pagos to get Copycat Minion and while it is still rare in the GC lockbox, you don't have to do much anymore to try to get it.