Gil sinks

[SingleMaltFan]

I'd like to see them flip the switch and turn on FC private chamber functionality for personal estates and let owners buy as many additional rooms as they want, up to the current maximum of, what, 500 or so? You could turn your cottage into a 100 room mansion for enough gil. The price per room could even increase depending on how many you already own. MB taxes will pull out even more gil as people go to furnish those extra rooms.

[ItMe]

I'd like to see them flip the switch and turn on FC private chamber functionality for personal estates and let owners buy as many additional rooms as they want, up to the current maximum of, what, 500 or so? You could turn your cottage into a 100 room mansion for enough gil. The price per room could even increase depending on how many you already own. MB taxes will pull out even more gil as people go to furnish those extra rooms.

Oh snap that's a great idea.
I love my room the way it is so I never wanna do more than tweak it, but if I could just get a whole new room and keep designing I'd be a very happy camper ♡♡

[Duskane]

should have been golden feast mounts

[hydralus]

Sell fantasias for 5m gil a piece. Now there's a gil sink.

[Ardeth]

Sell fantasias for 5m gil a piece. Now there's a gil sink.

Honestly 10 million and I think that's fair. But that's a really really good idea.

[Penthea]

Might sound a bit out of place but the ability to gift wrap items we're giving to friends. How much fun it would be for them to have to unwrap an item to see what they're getting just as we need to have lockboxes opened to see what those contain instead of having the items placed directly into our inventory when completing content.

Many games have this. I was a bit disappointed to see it wasn't in FFXIV. It's a really nice way to make gift giving a bit more special.

And yes this game is in dire need of gil sinks, I agree with all of your suggestions. Cosmetic things don't lose value the way items with stats do, especially if the only way to get them is to throw a large amount of gil at a npc, provided they're market prohibited of course.

There are enough gil sinks for someone who only plays battle classes, otherwise I would be rich after all these years. I'm currently at 1.6 million.

And what about players who don't? Many are the sort of person who won't play a class unless they're interested in it. It's far from rare. There should be gil sinks appealing to several types of players.

[Jojoya]

There are enough gil sinks for someone who only plays battle classes, otherwise I would be rich after all these years. I'm currently at 1.6 million.

These gil sinks are more specifically for people who play crafters and gatherers too.

Are you certain you're that low because of gil sinks, or is it because you've been buying items from other players?

Buying from other players is not a gil sink (though the 5% market tax you pay when buying off the MB is). The gil just changes hands and stays in the game economy. A gil sink removes it from the economy completely.

The game does have a lot of little gil sinks (market tax, teleport fees, repair fees, melding fees) but no major ones other than housing. Unless most of the content you do is PvP or Gold Saucer games (which don't reward gil), the gil you're earning should accumulate very quickly compared to what you lose on those small gil sinks.

My money is currently at 21 million but I just don't know what to buy, hahah.

I don't know if its worth it to buy hairstyle that cost 9 million or various mounts in the millions too.... Well, maybe right now that is all that my money should be directed to... I don't know.

If you're definitely going to use something and you've got enough gil, buy it. If it's just a "well, I don't have anything else to do with my gil", skip it and save the gil for things that might be added in the future.

The development team does watch player buying habits to get a better idea of what players want to have in the game (actions can speak louder than words, especially if they're not getting much direct feedback). If we're buying stuff we don't want, they'll keep adding more of it thinking that we really do want those items. Same for content - do the content because you enjoy it so they're encouraged to add more of that content to the game.

[Vahlnir]

they also have to be careful not to hand out a recolor/gold color of something that is hard to grind to get either. that will diminish the effort of the original. I can't see them doing that to a hunt mount or RAF mount.

A white tiger mount would be nice though.

[Zfz]

I can't believe they didn't make that gil sink mount consume 1 gil per second while moving. And that 1 gil gets left behind in a trail which any player can pick up by proximity, each gil lasting 30 seconds.

[Curisu]

That really was needed.
Over the years I've collected 180+mil without crafting or grinding for it and I have nothing to spend it on.

I wonder what the price for them will be.
My guess would be around 50-100mil each.