These forums in general confuse me, NoctisUmbra, since there is such a thing as too much transparency ... but seeing as my at-launch friends have told me the game used to be nigh unplayable I can understand a certain amount of entitlement. I guess maybe it's just crossing a threshold with this money thing.

I guess I'm in a unique position; the more I think about it, the more I consider that about 90% of the money I spend these days goes toward making money anyway. So maybe I've just convinced myself that it's not affecting me in the slightest.

Then again, if our PCs needed to pay for food/water/shelter or would die, we could argue about the severity of the impact of lost gil. Since none of that applies, and having gil (therefore being able to buy materials and/or better gear rather than farm for/earn it) is about as close to a convenience factor as you can get. For folks who have put in that farming/earning for a couple years and think their nest egg is being stolen from them, I get it. Just no way to convince them that's not the case.