In honest it HAS to be a retainer buying scheme, because the beast tribe tokens are absolutely not required for any form of quest hand in etc. Plus even then, items don't need to be used... Something you gotta think about is this, there are /3 requirements etc for you to simply search a destination, kill a mob, etc. They just need to build it into the quest that you killed the mob with a gold... Bam, you secured the objective!

There's no real excuse for what they are doing other than money mongering .

Is it true Balmung is the ERP capitol of the world?