The lack of gil sinks

[hagare]

complains about gil sinks....
meanwhile *looks at lack of gil*

[Renalt]

Welp…..time to pull out that maid uniform……….

then grab my drk weapon and let some poor bastard heal my edgy ass.

It's a fine and edgy ass to heal.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

complains about gil sinks....
meanwhile *looks at lack of gil*

That's pretty much it. There are 2 categories of players : those that have 1-2M gils or less, and those that have hundreds of millions of gils (crafters, gatherers, run sellers). Most rich people stay rich, most poor people stay rich. There is a middleground, where people have 20-40M, but those are treasure map hunters, and gil sinks don't appeal to them because... yeah, why would you invest all your gils in a mount ?

[Lami_Khatayin]

You all got nothing to do with your Gil?
No problem, im fking poor, im here with open Hands and would be happy for some $$$$!
Call me !

[Atelier-Bagur]

Ahh...the problems of the 1%


As in wow I wish this were an issue I can relate to. Im always lacking in gil

[Payadopa]

As a player who doesn’t craft but raids, crafted gear on patch week and pots and food are plenty of a Gil sink to me. I would love to get to the point where I have disposable Gil to throw at all the raid gear, glam items, and housing items I want. You won the ffxiv congrats! Like real world capitalism you reach a point where you have too much money to spend

Same here. I'm hovering around 500k to 1.5 mil and when I gear a job for leveling or get a nice furniture I'm broke. At times I couldn't even afford a teleport. <.,< For normal people there is enough Gil sinks I'd say.

[Rilifane]

Ahh...the problems of the 1%


As in wow I wish this were an issue I can relate to. Im always lacking in gil

What do you really use gil for, though? Just genuinely curious here because this "permanently broke lol" isn't something I could ever relate to.
Teleport fees are fairly low and Aetheryte tickets are quick and easy to get from the Elite marks. Even if you just do these Elite marks, you'll likely have enough for the week if you set the threshold to something like 300-400 gil unless you're really into gathering timed nodes and need to change zone often - in which case you'll likely make enough money from gathering either way. There's also GC teleport tickets for GC seals if you just want to get to your city quickly.

Repair cost are low and if you have crafters leveled, you can even buy the Dark Matter for GC seals. If you do any roulettes/ dungeons that drop gear from time to time, you'll most likely end up with more Dark Matter than you really need. Depending on your retainer classes, they can also bring back the gathered materials for the GC turn-in.

Alt class gear is "free" since you can get it for Poetics and roulettes give more than most people can remember to spend.

Melding fee is low and melding is only interesting if you're doing endgame content and very much optional if you don't.

Glamour is free since you can buy the prisms from your GC and most people work with plates anyway, so no additional cost there.

Basically all of the services people use frequently are either free or easy to make free passively or with minimal effort like sending out retainers. But roulette/ AIN boni and challenge log entries can easily cover that as well and you'll still have money to spare to accumulate enough to buy fancy mounts or go for a house over time even if you don't want to touch crafting/ gathering/ market board flipping/ farming expensive stuff. I'm not part of the 1%, I didn't actively make money outside of the occasional patch drop by selling overpriced Syrups or Spiritbond Potions because I was simply too lazy. But the gil kept ticking up from practically spending nothing on services like teleport/ glamour/ repairing while passively getting roulette/ AIN boni or challenge log entries and occasionally throwing stuff on the MB that retainers brought back or that I dumped GC seals/ tomes on like new pot/ crafted gear mats or a map when I remembered to quickly hit a tree.

[Payadopa]

What do you really use gil for, though? Just genuinely curious here because this "permanently broke lol" isn't something I could ever relate to.
Teleport fees are fairly low and Aetheryte tickets are quick and easy to get from the Elite marks. Even if you just do these Elite marks, you'll likely have enough for the week if you set the threshold to something like 300-400 gil unless you're really into gathering timed nodes and need to change zone often - in which case you'll likely make enough money from gathering either way. There's also GC teleport tickets for GC seals if you just want to get to your city quickly.

Repair cost are low and if you have crafters leveled, you can even buy the Dark Matter for GC seals. If you do any roulettes/ dungeons that drop gear from time to time, you'll most likely end up with more Dark Matter than you really need. Depending on your retainer classes, they can also bring back the gathered materials for the GC turn-in.

Alt class gear is "free" since you can get it for Poetics and roulettes give more than most people can remember to spend.

Melding fee is low and melding is only interesting if you're doing endgame content and very much optional if you don't.

Glamour is free since you can buy the prisms from your GC and most people work with plates anyway, so no additional cost there.

Basically all of the services people use frequently are either free or easy to make free passively or with minimal effort like sending out retainers. But roulette/ AIN boni and challenge log entries can easily cover that as well and you'll still have money to spare to accumulate enough to buy fancy mounts or go for a house over time even if you don't want to touch crafting/ gathering/ market board flipping/ farming expensive stuff. I'm not part of the 1%, I didn't actively make money outside of the occasional patch drop by selling overpriced Syrups or Spiritbond Potions because I was simply too lazy. But the gil kept ticking up from practically spending nothing on services like teleport/ glamour/ repairing while passively getting roulette/ AIN boni or challenge log entries and occasionally throwing stuff on the MB that retainers brought back or that I dumped GC seals/ tomes on like new pot/ crafted gear mats or a map when I remembered to quickly hit a tree.

This all boils down to 'in order to enjoy the game I need to do chores first.' Duty Roulette bored me to tears for instance. And sometimes you're in the 'inbetween' levels where you can't get tome gear. There is more but I can't be bothered to elaborate. lol

If you put in the effort and get rich, more power to you. But people shouldn't then turn around and say we need more Gil sinks.

[MsQi]

If you have so much gil you have nothing to to spend it on, you put effort into getting gil. Why did you do that if there isn't anything to spend it on?

There are 175 million worth of mounts I don't have, and it'll likely be another ten years before I have that.

[dspguy]

I can get on board with the OP's notion of a method to "upgrade an apartment" to a large for some large amount of gil. It would remove gil from the game and increase the demand for housing items. The luxury mounts were a good idea and they should continue adding them, but I don't know if it is a gil sink that draws in a significant portion of the playerbase.