Quote Originally Posted by SundayTrash View Post
The game practically have zero gil sink, and there are plenty of ppl that wants to trade their gil for mog station items, lets give gil some value by allowing us to convert it to crysta, this way both side can be happy.
The benefit is it creates an in-game market value for gametime. Whether that in-game market value is 20k gil or 2 million gil or 20 million gil is all up to supply and demand.

Having a sink isn't really a concern, as it doesn't put extra gil into the economy, it just shuffles it around.