AlexWaff: "Proof I didn't buy Midnight, I'm an XIV player"

Well, blind loyalty to abusive relationships isn't a good idea. If everybody acted that way, XIV would have no reason to ever improve while the """"competition"""" passes it by.

kosbebot6360: I just use my gil to buy nice things for my friends when they have a rough time irl

chromedbadger: Got to love them Gil rewards that are less than the cost in teleport fees.

bergeremit2530: If it's true and Gil is the reason, then the gap between reality and the developers is so vast that Square Enix's management needs to be fired, and Yoshida should be the first to go. This would not only reveal incompetence at every level, but it would also demonstrate hostility towards FF14 and the entire FF series. If there's even a grain of truth to your arguments, everyone involved in such a decision needs to be fired and investigated for hostility towards the company and property damage. It would be like me starting work at a car dealership and throwing rocks at the new cars with the reasoning "the customer told me...". In my opinion it is far simpler: Lazy greed. SE is done with FF14 and still thinks NFT, Gatcha, AI- and Mobile-Gaming is the hot shit.

zarnador5228: The only use to me for gil is buying mounts, housing, minions I don't wuna gather/farm myself, since Gear/pots/food I craft/gather myself. This is the first expac I actually put effort into making gil and I went from having about 40m to having over 800m.

oblongcats: they are stingy af with gil rewards, forces me to do marketboard stuff and I don't like work

GaryTaro45: GW2 also have housing for free (well, not really "free", you need purchase JW expansion, but it is free if you have that), it is actually like "island sanctuary", they have plots, you can farm, craft, plants, decorating etc

KindredEmotions: I get all my Gil from subs so all I spend it on is dye occasionally. I gave up on this game having any kind of real economy when they made it easy for everyone to become an omnicrafter. A man can only get undercut by bots and addons so many times before he opts out entirely.

lithhtil: Can you imagine making up the currency and what every single item costs and then saying "its the economy"

I want them to abandon the release model. I know itll never happen, but just put things out when theyre ready. I dont want a house when you made me wait 4 years for a new plot to even maybe be available or 2 years for the next blu update

goodestboy174: Tbh, I can't believe they're still ignoring Island Sanctuary. It's a huge untapped source that could be intergrated annually to match expansion themes. Devs sleeping hard on it.

whitemageserenia: So I do agree sorta that gil is semi-useless myself. I don't try to make gil, I don't craft, I don't play the market (Buy low sell high), or anything like that, and I'm currently sitting at 293million gil. Like... 90% of my gil literally comes from Deep Dungeon and/or random crap my retainers bring me.

However, other than one questionable (why is there a weapon upgrade item for a 665 weapon instead of CURRENT ITEM LEVEL!?) item from (Merchant's Tale) Criterion, I think the rewards are ok. Would you still do ultimate if you didn't get anything but a title? I'm sure you would if you enjoy the content. I don't do savage raiding, or ultimates myself, not for lack of skill, but mostly for lack of willpower. I don't really have an interest in that type of content personally (I do WANT to, just not bad enough that I'm willing to grind it out and/or search for, or set up, a static. With the exception of Ultimate, I have zero interest in ultimate.)

I'm not really sure what the community is wanting insofar as "Better Rewards" are concerned. Though I can think of at least one avenue. Gearing. As someone who doesn't really savage raid, I'd certainly like a way to keep my item level as current as possible instead of having to wait 5million years for SE to add the upgrade items to the 24man raid weekly. Furthermore, why the hell is the 24man gear still locked on arrival? the 24man raid gear shouldn't be weekly locked at all. Change my mind.

I do completely understand the complaints about housing though... that lottery system... it ain't so good. I mean its better than the alternative, where the only way you could get a house was to basically be on the server hub (0ping) and be up at the exact moment the server goes live, and/or using a macro to rapidly click to buy a house, (which puts console players at a massive disadvantage anyway) but I don't really know how else they could keep the neighborhood system and make housing better overall. Though I do kinda like your idea of being able to put a house on the island sanctuary, that does feel like a missed opportunity.

apharys8921: What's really funny is when the game rewards you with furnishing for your non-existent house, and it's not even worth selling.

Dracounguis: I have zero interest in the genie mount. Maybe if I see it for 100k, I'll grab it just because. I would probably ride it once and then never again.

trevorvanderploeg8055: The housing is not the only thing that is the problem check the market borders for level 40 and higher and try to it’s not that bad

SubduedRadical: Wait...how does one literally piss through gold? Like...through a gold pile or into a gold toilet?

But yeah, had a small for a bit, but I honestly just didn't do anything with it. I made the FFTactics pub (no, really, and pretty faithfully if I do say so myself), but...no one ever visited and I had no reason for it, so when I let it go by just stopping going there long enough. Smalls don't have that level of competition, but it still is a finite resource. Sometimes I see smalls open, and I have thought of picking up another, but what would I do with it? As for Gil itself...

Well, it's not worth much of anything UNLESS you're either (a) raiding, (b) housing, or (c) doing some niche old content (e.g. Delubrium Savage where you need to get a bunch of specific Lost Actions/Essences). I don't (or almost never) raid, I don't do housing (I just cram everything that will fit into my Apartment and its storage for now since seasonal events and stuff like showering players with housing items despite housing being a limited asset; Apartments you never lose, so they make for good storage even if I forget about mine for a year at a time). Other than that, it's just consumables.

I do Hunt Trains, so I have free teleports (and those aren't THAT expensive), have all the Materia I need (even if one doesn't do Hunt Trains, you can easily get them from Tribal quests, Criterion...honestly ANYTHING IN THE GAME just about gives Materia, so if you aren't pentamelding, you've got what you need), and I have crafters/gatherers at max level (I don't do anything with them, but I can meld my own gear - so no paying NPC there - and can easily afford repair dark matter).

There's really so little to spend on, unless I go on a MB splurge where I buy a bunch of orchestrions, mounts, and/or minions (but I only buy the cheap stuff in general anyway), I don't need it. Even in the Relic step, it was maybe 600k gil, which sounds like a lot but...I have like 20M.

I don't get why the devs think gil is worth so much. Maybe if I could buy anything with it, but you really can't. The rare mount like the Alexandrian hover bike, sure, but what does everything else I buy cost?

TOMES.

Relics cost tomes.

Tome gear - perhaps obviously - costs tomes.

I guess the upgrade mats I buy with Hunt currency?

But yeah, if we could buy all THAT STUFF with gil, sure, that might make a difference.

But everything in the game costs non-gil currency. Crescent coins, Tomestones, Sacks of Nuts, Extreme Totems, Lunar/Phasima/new planet currency, whatever.

I can't buy gear with gil.

I can't buy (most) mounts with gil.

I can't buy (most) minions with gil.

Even the content specific stuff (like Chemist potions in Crescent Island or regen potions in Deep Dungeons) you buy with that content specific token.

Since everything is tokens, what's the point of gil?

The only use of gil is teleports, housing, and raiding, and the rare thing you get an itch to look on the MB for and see it's so ridiculously overpriced, you wouldn't buy it on principle even if you HAD the money. XD

RicardoSantos-z6v: The purpose of housing is to keep you connected to the shitty game.

That's why they have a demolition timer and are not instanced.

Is a strategy so that people don't leave during content draught. Which seems to be 90% of the time.

Nefareia: If I'm being honest I am surprised they don't have a way to outright buy gil already. There is a sort of pseudo means of it if we really think on it. Class and Story skips do come with those platinum piece things so it is essentially a free 500k gil, I've never tested it, but I imagine one would continuously buy class skips and just keep the platinum pieces then discard the skip books, but that sounds...very expensive.

dddking9284: 4:08 I see the puss in boots last wish reference sir

trodune: They didn't want to make gil worth anything to combat rmt, they succeeded by making nothing to buy aside from one time purchases.

They failed miserably in supplying the bots via the shard/crystal/clusters system.

Like, it would take a minion having the ability to act as a retainer bell for it to be worth chasing.

Multi seat mounts taking 3-4 clicks to hop on is hot garbage and negates any help they provide in like hunt trains.

There's no other functionality to mounts that you can't just get from the og chocobo, you cant show off with them or use them to speed up walking in towns, nothings faster or slower its just pixel blobs.

Unless we get like a pay 5mil gil to have a chance to drill a materia slot in gear, there's nothing really going in there either.

And at the end of the day, you can mod in more or less whatever, with likely better animations or matching metals with clothes.

In all honesty the greatest reward I've seen in game was from WoW, where on warlock you could do this hard as hell solo bossfight and get all of your skills turned fel green. I don't even know if that's still even a thing anymore, it was towards the end of cata.

jaquanepatterson2537: I'm playing WoW right now, pretty fun so far, really love their take on hunts with their prey system.

lindseyhensley6948: I have millions of gil....and .... unless im getting like 250k gil from something, its worthless to me. Balancing around how much gil something gives based on how the devs feel gil is worth is sorta silly. They need to do what GW2 did and hire an actual economist to explain to them the actual value from a players perspective

barramuti27: variant stuff is expensive because the new variant is boring and takes forever

gcvrsa: What are you even talking about? It's so ridiculously easy to make gil in FFXIV. Your first mistake is admitting you aren't a crafter. Well, WTH not? If you are blowing all your gil on buying equipment, then you really have no cause to complain. Once you can farm the materials and craft the items, there are so many popular items that sell for a ton of gil that are easy to make, and the crafting XP rewards are ridiculously high, especially if you are on a preferred server and use the XP bonus item/food. If you aren't constantly spending your gil, it just steadily accumulates. My main PC has a small house (3M), FC quarters (300K), and an apartment (500K), and still has over 10M gil; I'm closing in on upgrading to a medium house. FFXIV is not a game that makes sense to even play unless you are an omni crafter and gatherer. I have four retainers, costing an extra $4/mo for the additional two. And that doesn't even count how much gil you save by using housing to cut the cost of teleports. That's why my house is in Shirogane, cheap teleport from one side of the globe to the other. Maybe someday, they will open player housing in Tural.

Taikomo: It's sad that video game discussion is so deeply rooted in immature tribalism that an FFXIV content creator needs to show proof that they're not playing other games. Don't feed that bs, you're allowed to play or not play any game and don't need to "prove" anything.

aikafuwa7177: The gil economy in FFXIV is hardly the problem. Stop crying about rewards, all rewards are meaningless very quickly. Play for fun and not for rewards.

Mesarthim: I live in a large, which only happened with a 6 way bid when the last wards opened up. No more have opened since and if none ever did I would never even get the chance again if I ever lost it.

mindfighter1: My biggest gil spending is crafting and glam

Mar 16 2026

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