Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
There already exists a token system for alliance raids: the coin you get from completing them. Those coins could just be expanded to not only allow you to buy upgrade mats but also buy individual gear pieces.
Coins from the older raids no longer drop, just the cluster that can be exchanged for the corresponding materia grade. They did away with that with EW's release, and you can now just buy the augmented gear with poetics. You don't even have to run the raids at all, which removes cause to run them even further.

This issue actually ties heavily into how CT raids are currently set up, and even if a token system was implemented, those wanting to run any raid other than CT or the current are going to have a lot of problems even getting into it. I'm afraid that this will continue to be an issue until the CT raid problem is acknowledged by the devs, and swiftly rectified.