Why do casual players seem entitled to cosmetic items added in game?

[MrJPtheAssassin]

You all can list ways to make gil till you are blue in your faces...that doesn't change the fact that A) the hair is always going to expenses (50mil to 100mil) and B) After a few months, you are lucky you find one or two of these on the MB since this content will die off. No one is going to farm this fight 46 times just to get hair to sell on the MB for ppl to buy. They farm it till they got all they want, sell the left over stuff and can it a day. A hairstyle isn't going to keep the damn fight alive forever...We saw it happen with crit duns...It will happen again...

[hydralus]

You all can list ways to make gil till you are blue in your faces...that doesn't change the fact that A) the hair is always going to expenses (50mil to 100mil) and B) After a few months, you are lucky you find one or two of these on the MB since this content will die off. No one is going to farm this fight 46 times just to get hair to sell on the MB for ppl to buy. They farm it till they got all they want, sell the left over stuff and can it a day. A hairstyle isn't going to keep the damn fight alive forever...We saw it happen with crit duns...It will happen again...

Then just wait a year or two for them to add it to the moogle tomestone thing like they did with the bozja hair.

[Gurgeh]

Who are these people with all this gil
"Oh just do x"
"Well if you only play 1 hour a week"

It's off topic, but also not.
I took two weeks off work (chance) when DT arrived. Played XIV all day most days. My crafters still aren't levelled. I completely missed out on savage being too late. I can't afford crafted gear. (I spend my gil on nothing, not glam, not minions, not mounts) I don't every seem to have a job geared when there is an opportunity to try high end with people I meet.(Week 1 gear is not a fun way to try high end for the first time)

Back when DT came out I had 12,000,000 gil except for about 6 weeks unsub. I've been playing all evening everyday for the last 3 years. I bought a house, and an FC estate during Endwalker. I don't spend Gil on glam or mounts or anything. Now and then I'm generous and I spent more on friends than myself. I might get a barding or something for them for 200,000 which to me is hugely expensive. But that's like once a month.

Hardly anything ever sells on mb. I put it up, I come back after the next dungeon and it's already been undercut. I've given up. Now I put stuff up. I might of might not check it the next day. And mostly I just end up having to npc sell it for 2/3gil.

None of the things in game that I enjoy doing, rouls, get you any gil. None the things I do game are any good for gearing for high end either. (Not until the content is over) Crafting is impossible, it takes ages to experiment with recipes that dint break even just for levelling. It's just F hopelessly tedious and overcomplicated.
I know exactly what's going on, add-ons and mods. If your using these you get an exponential advantage.
Heck even if I have something that's valuable I don't realise probably. I know there is an add-on that cheats even with this and gives you the mb price i of every.drop. That annoyed me. In maps I used to think people were looking stuff up. Then I find out their game was telling them and mine isn't. So I get a bit of stuff out of maps, but then my inventory is full, I have to start passing, and when I get back it's mostly worthless junk that I've got. Inventory management is frankly is anti-fun. So maps once I've played them once I dint bother again. No challenge, and you don't get a lot of gil, maybe 100,000 on a good run. That's about 150 teleports.

[hydralus]

Who are these people with all this gil
"Oh just do x"
"Well if you only play 1 hour a week"

It's off topic, but also not.
I took two weeks off work (chance) when DT arrived. Played XIV all day most days. My crafters still aren't levelled. I completely missed out on savage being too late. I can't afford crafted gear. (I spend my gil on nothing, not glam, not minions, not mounts) I don't every seem to have a job geared when there is an opportunity to try high end with people I meet.(Week 1 gear is not a fun way to try high end for the first time)

Back when DT came out I had 12,000,000 gil except for about 6 weeks unsub. I've been playing all evening everyday for the last 3 years. I bought a house, and an FC estate during Endwalker. I don't spend Gil on glam or mounts or anything. Now and then I'm generous and I spent more on friends than myself. I might get a barding or something for them for 200,000 which to me is hugely expensive. But that's like once a month.

Hardly anything ever sells on mb. I put it up, I come back after the next dungeon and it's already been undercut. I've given up. Now I put stuff up. I might of might not check it the next day. And mostly I just end up having to npc sell it for 2/3gil.

None of the things in game that I enjoy doing, rouls, get you any gil. None the things I do game are any good for gearing for high end either. (Not until the content is over) Crafting is impossible, it takes ages to experiment with recipes that dint break even just for levelling. It's just F hopelessly tedious and overcomplicated.
I know exactly what's going on, add-ons and mods. If your using these you get an exponential advantage.
Heck even if I have something that's valuable I don't realise probably. I know there is an add-on that cheats even with this and gives you the mb price i of every.drop. That annoyed me. In maps I used to think people were looking stuff up. Then I find out their game was telling them and mine isn't. So I get a bit of stuff out of maps, but then my inventory is full, I have to start passing, and when I get back it's mostly worthless junk that I've got. Inventory management is frankly is anti-fun. So maps once I've played them once I dint bother again. No challenge, and you don't get a lot of gil, maybe 100,000 on a good run. That's about 150 teleports.

If you don't know how to craft, refuse to sort your inventory, don't want to grind and don't want to do the actual raid, then I dunno guess you're just out of options.

[AllenThyl]

I took two weeks off work (chance) when DT arrived. Played XIV all day most days. My crafters still aren't levelled. I completely missed out on savage being too late. I can't afford crafted gear. (I spend my gil on nothing, not glam, not minions, not mounts) I don't every seem to have a job geared when there is an opportunity to try high end with people I meet.(Week 1 gear is not a fun way to try high end for the first time)

- Every day, the game gives you 6 leve allowances, which you can use to do crafter / gatherer leves for substantial amount of xp. You get xp for all leves of ARR to EW as long as the class in question is below 90. I overlevelled all my crafters just by doing every leve once for the achievements, i.e. I reached the cutoff level before I finished handing in all the leves of the previous expansion. For 90+, the current expansion leves have to be done, but again, they are substantial xp.
- Your grand company allows you to hand in one item per crafter class per day for 25%. If it is HQ, this amount is doubled. If the item has a daily bonus, the amount is further doubled, meaning you can up to a level per day per class for turning in a single item. Don't even have to craft it yourself, just buy the cheapest one you can find on the MB.
- Every week, you have 12 custom delivery allowances, which again provide a substantial xp reward for turning in a total of 12 items, on top of a shower of scrip. Which you can either use yourself, or buy materia / materials to sell on the MB. Time investment per week is like 20 minutes max, and you get the full amount of xp for high level jobs even when turning in low level custom deliveries.
- If you want to powerlevel, collectables are the way to go. They also provide scrip which you can either use yourself or turn into money.

Quite frankly, this is all becoming the "I am a dad of 6 working 15 hours a day"-memes from the Diablo 4 launch. Plethora of people powerlevel all their gatherers / crafters to max on launch day in a few hours before the sun sets, and you can't do it with all the even more time efficient methods the game has over a period of weeks?

I know exactly what's going on, add-ons and mods. If your using these you get an exponential advantage.

You know nothing. And that is the whole problem here. Yes, there are mods, yes, the amount of people that use them are very likely higher than it should be. But the problem you describe here are unbelievably ridiculous. This is "not even playing the game" level, it's simply weaponized incompetence. In the time it took you to write all your quite lengthy posts, you could have looked up some resources online and fixed all your issues by now.