Quote Originally Posted by shikarin View Post
Not true at all. There was only one way to generate a reasonable amount of gil in FFXI, and that was fishing. (generating gil, not generating items then selling them to other players)

People just whine about gil because they're used to gold being easy to obtain and being virtually worthless. IMO it's nice when in-game currency is actually worth something.
I did not talk here about the quantity of money you get per event. I did say there were plenty of options. Almost everything in FFXI yielded gil. BCNM/KSNM/ENM did not require any participation fee. ZNM only a small amount, if you don't have a pet to fight in the colliseum. Dailies like Voidwatch/Assault yielded gil, too. Almost every NM, event NM and the event itself gave gil. Totally not comparable to FFXIV.