The lack of gil sinks

[Yeol]

I spend Gil when I'm too lazy to gather or craft. Especially when new crafted gear is available and I want to craft it for all my retainers zZZ.

[Liam_Harper]

Gil sinks are mainly put in games to handle inflation, which ff14 doesn't really have a problem with. The issue I find with ff14 is they handle reducing inflation by simply giving players very little raw gil. Almost no items vendor for much, they nerfed leve gil, removed it from collectibles, quests and challenge logs and even roulette bonuses give very little. Maps and submarines are the only real source.
Compare this to other games that have a lot to buy for ingame money, but also throw a lot at you for doing pretty much everything. This feels like money has a value and is a good reward, FF14's system is just easier to balance.
Either way, currently we don't need a gil sink. Inflation just isn't an issue because there isn't much raw gil flowing into the economy compared to how much is removed.

Gil itself is interesting. It currently has a lot of uses. The market board is packed with mounts, minions, music, emotes, hair, barding, other vanity items, glamour and so on that would cost a massive sum to buy them all. So why are most players not bothered and just sit on gil saying it has no uses?
Because collecting sucks in this game. They don't encourage it. You'll never get all the minions or mounts, tons of them are cash shop or past event you probably missed and even if you do, what's the point? There's no milestone achievements that give a new mount every 50, 100, 150 and soon. The mount and minion tab sucks, barely any info and it doesn't track any you miss. The game also does its best to keep achievements hidden because "showing off is bad", so why waste thousands of hours there. This mentality has created a community that will rarely be impressed by rare mounts and pets and would probably resent someone for it instead, so even less reason to get rare collectibles. As for glamour, that has limited slots so waste of time collecting too many.

The game just doesn't cater to collectors and people love collecting in MMO's. So vanity rewards become a "eh, whatever". Criterion is a great example, it feels unrewarding even though you can literally farm mounts that are 10-15m a pop, making it far more rewarding than most activities. No one cares. Collections aren't worth the effort of progging Savage level bosses.

[Atelier-Bagur]

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.

You know how time is money correct? Im an omnicrafter, and a house owner and I spend a lot of my gil on materials and items I feel is too much of a waste of time to gather (especially timed nodes) or too complex to craft, along with trying to get all the crafted gear with pentameld. Yeah theres my gil sink

[Neoyoshi]

*figures out how to turn self into Sink*

I'm so frick'n broke.

[IckeDerTyp]

Everytime I have to pay 1k for a simple tp im like "man... so many wasted gil :x" and you want even more huh!

Just sink your gil into poor little me! Win-Win.

[Raven2014]

There is a very easy and effective way to creating a gil sink that SE can do if they really want to tackle inflation:

- Each month, put a set of like 5 mog station items to a NPC vendor that can be bought with gil only for that month.

Run this for a year or two and I bet a large amount of gil in the game will disappear. This will effect their bottomline though so I doubt they'll do it.

[Raven2014]

I spend Gil when I'm too lazy to gather or craft. Especially when new crafted gear is available and I want to craft it for all my retainers zZZ.

That's not really a gil sink though. The MB is more of a gil transfer with a very small amount (tax) disappear. Only an NPC vendor can be a gil sink because they take the whole amount out of circulation

[TomsYoungerBro]

Gil doesn't have much value in this game, and I don't think its simply because there aren't enough gil sinks. The endgame gearing is completely untradeable, and a large house is only 50m. The only other need for gil is just a convenience if you want to buy food/pots off the marketboard instead of crafting them yourself.

If they add more value to gil, I would say yes indeed we need gil sinks. However for now its not really a problem. If someone wants to hold onto 20 billion gil in there many retainers, more power to them. Its meaningless XD

[Renalt]

Everytime I have to pay 1k for a simple tp im like "man... so many wasted gil :x" and you want even more huh!

Just sink your gil into poor little me! Win-Win.

GC seals for teleport discounts and materials to do self gear repair. Saves on tons of money. Then you can also get free teleports to directly in front of the GC hall.

[Yeol]

That's not really a gil sink though. The MB is more of a gil transfer with a very small amount (tax) disappear. Only an NPC vendor can be a gil sink because they take the whole amount out of circulation

True. I guess Gil is just one of the many currencies we have. I spend Tomestones and Crafters' Scrips more than I spend Gil. The Gil I spend on teleportation I earn back doing dailies & selling retainer venture items.

I can buy crafting mats with tomes/scrips & sell them for Gil. Which is lower value if you ask me. The time and effort put into grinding tomes and scrips only to earn Gil in return that I barely spend is meh.