I mean it's the driving force of FFXIV's entire motivation for the last 10 years, NPCs are both way too nice and at the same time incredibly greedy and unhelpful, I know it's for gameplay reasons but it's so ridiculous to me that we have to buy things still, like, we literally saved the planet from an intergalactic threat that was wiping out life from the universe and when we get home we still have to pay for new boots? We have to pony up for chunks of meteorites to get a new weapon? We literally saved EVERYONE from even the afterlife being destroyed and Tataru isn't paying my damn Aetheryte fees?

It's wild.