How do I do this?

[Yumi_umi]

This grind is not for the unskilled lol.
GS grind = u can win and make progress or lose and go back a few steps.
I.e win 3 TT matches against king elmer but lose 10 times.

Relic grind etc. = you grind and grind grind slowly making progress but there is nothing that will give u "negative" progress.

So u can have all the time in the world trying to grind GS mgp but it won't do much if u suck at the games. Best advice is to take time and get good at triple triad, GATES or try the choco racing route and invest in it hoping the payout in the future will be worth it.

[LandricFrey]

Also keep in mind that gold saucer rewards are not something that will be obsolete in three months. That place will most likely be the main theme park attraction for the life of the game.

[Orangekun]

I'm not saying the Gold Saucer grind is difficult. Very few things are significantly challenging in this game. It's the fact that it's a long, tedious grind that A) is so slow that it never feels like you're making progress B) monotonous and boring. The same can be said of the majority of other grinds in the game: Allied Seals, Relic Weapons, Leveling.

I regularly feel discouraged from even logging onto FFXIV simply because there are so many things to do, yet so many of them are just mindless, awful grinds that take months to complete. If I had absolutely nothing to do in this game, I'd play it more, simply for the fact that I'd feel like I can spend my time on FFXIV doing whatever I want, rather than always having to spend my entire play session dedicated towards achieving a goal that's so far out of sight that I can't even see it on the horizon. Ironically, I'm sure they give us all these long grinds to ensure that players sub to the game, because nothing can be done within a month's time. Yet for myself, all of the grindy content causes me to take breaks from the game spanning anywhere from 1 to 6 months. 1-6 months that I would otherwise have spent paying for and playing this game.