Gold Saucer issues

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I know it may be a bit hard for older players to comprehend since you've been able to steadily earn MGP for years whilst the rewards have been introduced, so you can't understand the time scales...
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They have a long hill to climb and the methods to climb it are the same as far as I can tell

You seems to be misunderstanding a few things about MGP generation, rewards, and "older players". The methods to climb the hill are definitely NOT the same. Yes, there is more to buy now, but MGP can also be accumulated much, MUCH faster.

First, the Gold Saucer launched with millions of MGP worth of items in the store. The old timers also had to do long, slow farm. They just did it a long time ago while you're doing it now. They still did the GATEs, raced the chocobos, etc just like you're doing now.

Second, MGP generation is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster now than it used to be. Fashion Report, increased GATE frequency, increased GATE rewards, increased challenge log rewards, open tournaments, and yes, moogle tomes, are all relatively recent in the grand scheme of things. GATEs used to be only twice an hour and rewarded 2-3.5k depending on the GATE, Typhon gave you nothing if you got blown off early and didn't count for the challenge log unless you won. Mini-cactpot tickets cost 600 MGP per day so you could actually lose MGP from them if you had bad cards/luck, etc.

So why are you all so against increasing pay-outs for some things and making a permanent combat method to earn MGP?

I'm not against increased payouts. I'm pointing out that the payouts have already increased and you're just not aware of it.

As for combat methods to earn MGP, yes, I am against that. I feel that people should actually have to do the content in order to get the rewards from said content. Just like you can't get raid rewards from fishing, or PvP rewards from treasure maps, and such, why should there be MGP rewards from non-Saucer related content? Does that mean some people will never get certain rewards because they don't do certain activities? Yes, but that's how it goes. It's okay for some rewards to be exclusive to specific activities.