Quote Originally Posted by Lck0ut View Post
Also, welcome to MMORPGs. These sorts of "Spend lots of gil, or lots of time" to get your consumables is a thing in every single mmo.
Sure, just how "You need to make an entirely separate character in order to play a different class" is a thing in every single mmo. Just because something always has been that way doesn't mean it always needs to be forever and all eternity. As the consumers, we can dictate what we want our experience to be. Square isn't a small dev with an artistic vision and a drive to see that through, they're a huge corporation whose only interest is in making money.

Quote Originally Posted by Lck0ut View Post
There is this cool thing called merc runs, join PFs paying people to have lootmaster turned on.
They do exist but they're not very common on my data centers that I've seen (EN on JP/OCE) and they do not reward that much. Usually they'll be 200k per person if the extreme mount drops, and we know how likely that is (this also assumes they buyer is honest and thus requires a lot of trust). Also to consider: what about when I play with my static? Most of my time isn't spent in PF, it's playing with my friends or people I enjoy in discord.