This game would be better off without gil

[Misteyes]

Not saying I agree or disagree but all of you need to learn to read better. NO gil and NO TRADING BETWEEN PLAYERS is clearly typed in the original post. so all the "people would use items as currency" arguments are invalid.

My mistake, then.

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It would kill the entire crafter/gatherer dynamic, since everyone would have to do everything themselves. Making it so that people can't cooperate with each other for anything besides combat is ridiculous; friendships are built over that sort of thing.

Interesting, but I don't consider trading with other people as playing with them, it has a very impersonal feel to it.
Might as well be buying from a vendor as a marketboard.
And there would still be dungeons, and fates, and primals and FC's which gives plenty of multiplayer action.

You seem very hostile, do you not like people who maybe have ideas different than your own, does it threaten you in some way?

To me, battle content (especially FATEs, but also Duty Finder) is extremely impersonal. Nobody is interested in talking to each other. I've made a few friends pugging, but for the most part, my friendships are built around my crafting classes, because they're more long term, and knowing how someone deals with money feels more familiar to me than knowing whether or not they can avoid red circles on the ground.