We don't need anymore gil sinks

[Raven2014]

It is my belief inflation came from 2 issues:

- The first came from the omnicrafter system: it cut out all inter-dependent. Unless you're news, you're either someone who don't craft, but if you venture into it it's only a matter of time you become self-sufficient. I'm an omnicrafter but I don't really make money off it, but it's because I'm an omni crafter I have very little reason to spend any gil either, thus whatever amount I made from other source just accumulate by themselves over time.

- The second is the excessive use of non-money token. Seriously, we have way too many freaking special tokens. Almost everything news/cool/neccessity do not come from gil. 3 different kind of tomstone, 3 different kind of hunt token, 4 different kind of script, and over dozen of beast tribe token ... do I miss something ... oh yeah! Company Seal, Wolf Mark and MGP. Among them they account for 90% of stuffs a players can and want to get from NPC ... all ignore the necessity of Gil ... WHY!?!?

Like ... for example, let us grind rep for beast tribes to unlock stuffs, but the stuffs themselves should cost gil instead of token. The stuffs from MGP or Seal, let's us buy with gil as an optional alternative.


The first issue is part of the nature of the game so I don't think it can be fixed. But the second issue is a serious design flaw. Almost every time they give you something new to buy in the game, they invent a new token for it. The reason this game lacks nature gil sinks is because we have so many "special" money that they pretty much obsolete the need of "real" money.

[Jojoya]

- The second is the excessive use of non-money token. Seriously, we have way too many freaking special tokens. Almost everything news/cool/neccessity do not come from gil. 3 different kind of tomstone, 3 different kind of hunt token, 4 different kind of script, and over dozen of beast tribe token ... do I miss something ... oh yeah! Company Seal, Wolf Mark and MGP. Among them they account for 90% of stuffs a players can and want to get from NPC ... all ignore the necessity of Gil ... WHY!?!?
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The other currencies cannot be traded, nor can most of the more valuable items that are purchased with them. That forces players into doing the relevant content to get the currency so they can buy the items they want.

If players could use gil to buy everything they want, they'd bypass doing the content. That would lead to the game getting a Pay to Win reputation, especially since players can technically buy gil for real money through Mogstation (though at horrible exchange rates most players would never pay just for the gil).

Because you can't just buy the best gear without doing the content to earn the special currencies, pay to win arguments fall apart. Obviously it doesn't stop some players from buying carries but their characters must still do the content to get the gear. They can't just take 2 million gil they bought from a RMT vendor and go buy the gear directly.

Your focus on the beast tribes as an example confuses me since you're earning the currency as you grind the rep to unlock items on their vendors. Usually you've earned more than enough by the time the rep grind has finished to buy everything you might want (special crafting materials from the crafting beast tribes an exception). From a lore perspective, it makes far more sense that they would want to only accept their local currency instead of a currency from foreign governments they're technically at war with.

[kaynide]

The other currencies cannot be traded, nor can most of the more valuable items that are purchased with them.

On this, I wouldn’t mind if the janky drops could be traded for Allagan coins or something. Even just 100g for a random Alexandrian spring or whatever would be nice. Here I am hoarding all these things just in case I ever decide I need it…lol.