Chocobo Racing Problem

[Tiggy]

So I've recently been getting pretty into Chocobo racing, and it's a load of fun. I think Square is onto something really special here once they put a few QoL fixes in. That's a different conversation though, and I want to draw attention to a specific problem. Overall participation issues. Chocobo Racing is a load of fun, but it's at it's peak when played against actual players instead of games full of NPCs.

The way I see it we have a few contributing factors..
A) A player's natural desire to obtain the bigger rewards. Aka the ones you need to save thousands of MGP for.
B) Due to breeding costs you're naturally eating into your MGP supply to raise through the pedigrees so that you can push further into the R-races.
C) Farming Triple Triad is considerably better time investment for MGP.

These issues quite simply boil down to one simple point. The MGP reward for Chocobo Racing is substantially lower than it should be. Due to the low reward players have very little MGP to actually save and spend on other Golden Saucer rewards so people are simply not participating. They are better off playing triple triad to generate MGP, and that's exactly what many of them are doing.

Square I implore you to raise the MGP rewards on this content to better compensate players for their time and to better manage Chocobo breeding costs. I recommend at minimum doubling the current rewards if not more. I understand that the higher end races likely pay out better and that those tiers might be competitive with Triple Triad, but it's quite a slog to get to that point just to be near par with Triple Triad. The amount of time and effort deserves a better reward.