What's the point for $50m Gil to do the Cloud beta test if you can't keep it?

[Nighthawky2010]

Even though I did create a character on the Cloud beta & bought some items with the $50m Gil, what is the point when the character & everything purchased including the $50m Gil will be deleted? I definitely misunderstood Yoshi when he said he would give $50m Gil. I thought that it was a reward given to my main character in my main world for creating a new character & playing on the Cloud beta.

[Kewitt]

Do money isn't an issue while testing.

[Hanayumi]

Even though I did create a character on the Cloud beta & bought some items with the $50m Gil, what is the point when the character & everything purchased including the $50m Gil will be deleted? I definitely misunderstood Yoshi when he said he would give $50m Gil. I thought that it was a reward given to my main character in my main world for creating a new character & playing on the Cloud beta.

You answered your own question, its just to buy gear and such to jump in and do w/e quicker, they never said the gil was a reward.. They just want as many players on there to stress test and see how well it holds up with the variety of regions playing together, that is all...

[Mika_Zahard]

its just to buy gear...

from whom? LOL, unless you're buying low level vendor stuff, then again you're most likely using your synced gear for low level roulettes.

[MsMisato]

from whom? LOL, unless you're buying low level vendor stuff, then again you're most likely using your synced gear for low level roulettes.

oh you mean diong the runs as intended and not have the stat creep from overlevel equipment. XD

[RitsukoSonoda]

Nah, it's there so ppl on the cloud beta test server can try buying a house on it... >.>

[Musashidon]

it's for all the poor people who can't keep more than 2gil on their retainers so they can see how it feels to have a lot of gil.

the reward for participating in the cloud beta is a better cloud server altogether. which is a win for everyone.

[hynaku]

I thought at first you got to keep the 50 mil but then read and found out you didn't. What's the point of helping out with the testing for no rewards and loosing precious playtime.

[Nighthawky2010]

I thought at first you got to keep the 50 mil but then read and found out you didn't. What's the point of helping out with the testing for no rewards and loosing precious playtime.

Exactly. That's what I was trying to convey in my post. Giving $50m GIL that you can't keep; buying mounts, food, gears, etc that you can't keep & will be deleted once the beta test is done, poured cold water on my plans to play on the cloud. To give that much gil on my actual character would have been more of an incentive to go on the cloud beta.

[NekoMataMata]

I thought at first you got to keep the 50 mil but then read and found out you didn't. What's the point of helping out with the testing for no rewards and loosing precious playtime.

Oh, I don't know, maybe so that you can tell them if the cloud servers are a good idea or not since if they work well enough then you'll benefit from being able to play them in the long run?

The gil is literally there for the purpose of enabling you to do whatever you need to do to test out the servers. That's it. It's that simple.