For a year, people have had absolutely no gil troubles in this game because leves gave out currency like candy and the economy was completely stagnated so there was nothing to spend on except fluke HQs. 1.19 brought a purpose for NQ equipment in the process of conversion and also slashed the leve gil handout further since 1.18 initially did it.

People are feeling poor now because there is actually demand in the economy. We are going to have to work for currency in FFXIV now. As someone already said earlier in the topic, some effort put into farming garnered a lot of gil. Inb4 "MMORPGs shouldn't be work and forcing players to do anything other than have fun is not what they want to pay for."