What's the point for $50m Gil to do the Cloud beta test if you can't keep it?

[RitsukoSonoda]

Life...video games...2 different things...LOL...SMH!!

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

[Jojoya]

Even though I did create a character on the Cloud beta & bought some items with the $50m Gil, what is the point when the character & everything purchased including the $50m Gil will be deleted? I definitely misunderstood Yoshi when he said he would give $50m Gil. I thought that it was a reward given to my main character in my main world for creating a new character & playing on the Cloud beta.

To not have to worry about gil while you help SE check the cloud server performance under conditions far closer to the live servers than SE can replicate in their internal testing environment.

Isn't a few hours on the cloud server worth it if it means you won't have 5 hours log-in queues for a month straight when Dawntrail is released? If not enough players participate, they may not be able to accurately judge if the cloud server will be a good solution. I would think as an Aether player, that sort of thing might concern you after what happened during Endwalker's release.

It also is a chance for you to try out some things that you wouldn't on the live servers because there's no actual risk to you on the test servers unlike the live.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

What's the point for $50m Gil to do the Cloud beta test if you can't keep it?

Glamour Prisms. Cause even on a character due for inevitable deletion, I still have to look fashionable. And I needed millions to accomplish this.

[VictorSpoils]

It's so you don't have gil issues during the test. It's really that simple.

I'm still wondering what you could spend that kind of money on in one week with nothing on the Market Board and barely anything useful from vendors. Maybe you could get a gold mount and call it a day.

[sindriiisgaming]

Even though I did create a character on the Cloud beta & bought some items with the $50m Gil, what is the point when the character & everything purchased including the $50m Gil will be deleted? I definitely misunderstood Yoshi when he said he would give $50m Gil. I thought that it was a reward given to my main character in my main world for creating a new character & playing on the Cloud beta.

so u can buy an fc house. its to cover every possible expense

[DiaDeem]

Give it to me

[Jojoya]

Glamour Prisms. Cause even on a character due for inevitable deletion, I still have to look fashionable. And I needed millions to accomplish this.

I got mine by ranking up with my GC and buying them with seals.

Then I bought more with my leftover seals and sold them for 600k each. I sold over 200 Glamour Prisms at that price in less than an hour.

How do the rich players get rich? By selling the things that other players can't live without and will pay almost any price to get.

I'm still wondering what you could spend that kind of money on in one week with nothing on the Market Board and barely anything useful from vendors. Maybe you could get a gold mount and call it a day.

Some did buy one of the gold mounts. Others bought houses (Mist 5/35 sold out fast, never did bother checking Shiro 30/60 but I suspect it was the same).

Mostly, you spend on it convenience such as those who bought my Glamour Prisms. It's not all that different from how it works in real life. You pay others so you don't have to put in the effort yourself.

so u can buy an fc house. its to cover every possible expense

FC houses can't be purchased on the test servers. The 30 day wait time still applies (my test FC tried, we wanted to build a sub).

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

I got mine by ranking up with my GC and buying them with seals.

Then I bought more with my leftover seals and sold them for 600k each. I sold over 200 Glamour Prisms at that price in less than an hour.

How do the rich players get rich? By selling the things that other players can't live without and will pay almost any price to get.

LOL! Hi Jojoya! <3 Been a while! Hope you are doing well

At the end of the day, ngl pure laziness took over and I will gladly pay for convenience, especially if it's not with my own gil lol. I would never do this on my main.

[Jojoya]

LOL! Hi Jojoya! <3 Been a while! Hope you are doing well

At the end of the day, ngl pure laziness took over and I will gladly pay for convenience, especially if it's not with my own gil lol. I would never do this on my main.

Hope you've been well also. Been missing you at hunts (not that I've been around hunts all that much lately either).

That's the fun part with test servers. It's "Play" play money. It means nothing because it gets taken away when the test ends so it doesn't matter what you do with it.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Hope you've been well also. Been missing you at hunts (not that I've been around hunts all that much lately either).

Yeah, I'm good, thanks. I've been taking a break from FFXIV; only really logging on every now and then to reset my house timer or do some dailies. At some point, I will return more regularly and back to hunts.