Quote Originally Posted by Hart View Post
If you don't enjoy playing this game, why are you still here? Eventually you're going to have to work towards something, but as devastating as that sounds. You'll live. Not only will you live, you'll enjoy the fruits of your labor, even moreso than if you bought them with your piggybank. I promise.
The gear worth fapping over will be untradable. Sure there is a possibility there will be a gil element to the questline, noting that it will be untradable - simply proves that there will be a large percentage of it that is done by beating content.

Relics as an example - there are only 2 major gil elements to the path, out of the whole questline. Which truthfully is nothing compared to relics in XI as an example. (The class weapon, and the beastmen coins). If you are about to say Hamlet Defence - that is a big lie, it takes less then an hour to get top 20, and maybe a few weeks to get all of your seals depending on playtime . That being said, both ways have cheaper methods of getting this done - which involves time. People who have that extra time, are usually the ones with higher game time ("hardcores" or people who don't have a job), and the people that don't have that gil have real life money. This gets balanced out with an in-game system as posted in the OP.

To me, the achievement that made me "chuffed" about getting both my relics was definitely not the gil aspect (yes I farmed it like a normal person), but it was the skill/defeating content aspect~ (17min runs/garuda/ifrit). I couldn't care less how people obtain the gil required because I look at a relic and think "cool, they were able to beat the harder game content".