Addicted to happiness

[Silverquick]

Different people have different priorities. What's 'superficial crap' to you is treasure for another. Minions, mounts and other rarities can go for 50+ million.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

When I say superficial crap I literally mean superficial.

In this game you don't need any of that to play or be effective. In FFXI you really did. FFXI is the old school way and a much much harder game. You had to have the type of high end equipment just to be effective at your level. Here you may only need it if you're doing certain types of content. There you needed it just to play the game or your experience there was going to be a painful one.

FFXI used a similar model to Everquest. When you died you lost exp. Everquest had the infamous corpse run so you had to run all the way back to where you died naked and collect all your equipent and then put it on, and if you couldn't get to your corpse before it disappeared you lost all your gear. To add insult to injury you could even lose your current level because you lost exp when you died if you didn't get a Res.

You have no idea how F'n hard that game was if you were not perfect or with the best gear you could get. I hear they lightened up over the years as more modern MMOs came out... but when I say the things you are talking about are superficial... I mean that. One you needed just to play... the other was optional extra you don't need.

[sagacious]

sounds like a good time to me, and a bad time to others..,

even if I was to gift to people who only care for their own gains.
They are always in an struggle to avoid the ball crushing them with the reality of the lessened value they gave their own experiences and living.

While those who are only thankful for a gift, and those who feel joy in giving/aiding others will get to feel minor joy in just giving.

in the end, all that matters if you enjoy it, and don't let it become something dark.
[or expect it to replace things you actually need]

I agree. I love both, making lots of gil, and i enjoy giving it to someone I feel will appreciate it. It's good Karma Cap? Omg I love to reach a cap ..... then I might quit but maybe not

[Gemina]

Gil doesn't really account for a whole lot in FFXIV. I'm not even sure if there are any achievements tied to making X amount of it. Gil, just like actual RL money, lacks substance. Your list of achievements and titles is really what measures your progress and leaves your footprints in the cement during your time playing FFXIV. There are also untradeable/unsellable acquisitions that contribute to this as well.

If there is anything that currently gives me a rush and a huge dopamine hit, it's winning a Fall Guys match.

[sagacious]

Gil doesn't really account for a whole lot in FFXIV. I'm not even sure if there are any achievements tied to making X amount of it. Gil, just like actual RL money, lacks substance. Your list of achievements and titles is really what measures your progress and leaves your footprints in the cement during your time playing FFXIV. There are also untradeable/unsellable acquisitions that contribute to this as well.

If there is anything that currently gives me a rush and a huge dopamine hit, it's winning a Fall Guys match.

How do you feel when you look at your retainers and they made a million gil over night? big big rush I'm sure

[Reinha]

Another gil making addict reporting in. It's fun!

My question is, what exactly are you going to do with it?

I can buy everything I want when it comes out in a patch. My collections include all tradeable items. And now that there will be a pause in content until summer, I will be closer to my ultimate goal of reaching the gil gap.

[LianaThorne]

How do you feel when you look at your retainers and they made a million gil over night? big big rush I'm sure

Rookie numbers, try ignoring them for a week and coming back to 50 mil or gambling and making 500m in an hour.

For real though, the shiny feeling wears off once you hit gil cap and have bought the majority of the MB. Now I just feed it to sprouts lol.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Rookie numbers, try ignoring them for a week and coming back to 50 mil or gambling and making 500m in an hour.

For real though, the shiny feeling wears off once you hit gil cap and have bought the majority of the MB. Now I just feed it to sprouts lol.

Maybe FFXIV will take something from the Borderlands series and let players buy turbo mansions. Which are mansions built out of other smaller mansions... >.>

[Gemina]

How do you feel when you look at your retainers and they made a million gil over night? big big rush I'm sure

I get a bigger rush when my retainers produce rare dyes like jet black, and pure white.

[sagacious]

After your first gil cap you realize its the most useless currency in MMO history, after 3 gil caps you just look for ways to get rid of it, mostly throwing away gifting gil mounts, don't go down that path.

Reach cap? How long does it take to reach cap? I've been trying to reach cap for 4 years. Why do you act like reaching cap is so easy. 3 gil caps? is that 3 billion? omg

[Tahbitha]

I am addicted to happiness. At first, I never cared about making gil or buying a house then things changed when I sold my 1st fat cat for 250k and I got this insane rush of happiness. I wanted more rush, so I learned about workshops and started saving for a house. I got into the lottery and a zero bug happened and I won the house for free. I got this insane rush of happiness. A free house and my 50 million gil were mine to keep. Today I am worth 210 million gil. I can't stop. I got to have rush. The Island favors, my retainers bring back treasure and gil. How much is too much?

Do you have an insane rush?

If it works for you, more power to you!

As for me...

I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy you love.