More accurate to say that some players spend their game time doing what interests them, and that may not always or even often include things that make significant amounts of gil.
But saying it that way doesn't put you on the moral high ground, eh?
More accurate to say that some players spend their game time doing what interests them, and that may not always or even often include things that make significant amounts of gil.
But saying it that way doesn't put you on the moral high ground, eh?
More like they simply avoid making money at all costs. They do things like farm Ramuh for a pony, but will throw away or give away any of the orbs they get, then complain that they have no money.
These are the people willing to farm hunts for hours on end to get their unidentified items, these are the people willing to run ARF 20 times a day to farm esos for it, but when it came time to buy their HQ items, it never seemed to occur to them that gil was just another currency just like esos, poetics, and allied, and there are hundreds of ways to make it.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
But... I have delicious candy in my van..
And onto the gil making part: I, for one, quit in the middle of patch 2.1 due to shortcomings of gil and therefore couldn't even start the relic quest due to high demand for the materials, and of course, the materia needed at the time. Now that I have 5+ million gil at all times, I don't have that feeling of not being able to do something in the world.
"Had a bad day doing DF? Time to craft! Had a bad day socializing with others? Crafting time!" etc. The fact that crafting has more or less made ~70% of overall playtime during the day doesn't bother me at all. In fact, crafting is fun, it's fun gathering the materials and use them to craft powerful gear, which has the potential to draw millions in.
Therefore, if there's anyone on Phoenix who needs someone to craft an equipment or two for ~80% of MB price (rough estimate of material cost vs finished product), just hit me up and I'll do that for you.
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Might as well add, as some of you might've seen from what I've been posting about lately, but crafting and (to a certain degree) gathering is a whole new game by itself. Meeting the thresholds and knowing when to abuse the "Good" and "Excellent" condition when using your abilities might make the difference between NQ and HQ.
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I thought about trying an EU server, but the lag might be too much.
US player.
You cared enough to post.
Well I didn't mean you specifically. A lot of people seem to do... for whatever reason.
Started on Siren during the craziness of the original launch, been on Faerie since my wife started playing a little over a year ago and she wanted to pick a different server than my other characters (I was only level 40 at the time, despite having originally started at launch...I took a fair amount of breaks and restarted during that time)...
Ended up in an active FC of good people after a couple months and been there ever since.
Recently taking a look at Square Enix's website, I've seen FFXIV only sold in basic game+Heavensward package, with no option to buy just the "vanilla" game (unless I missed it, and it is there somewhere?). However, Steam is selling just the basic game, and here's where my question comes in: if I'd buy the game from Steam, will I be able to activate it/create an account same as everyone else, and buy Heavensward from SE later and not Steam? (and would I be able to download the non-Steam client from SE?)
Also could someone say, what's the deal with "items behind real money paywall" talk a few pages ago?
(to sort of explain why I poke around here now and then, while not being a player, I'm trying to follow the information about the game a little, so that if I quit WoW for good, I can make an informed enough decision if to buy FFXIV or not)
Did some research on Reddit and I've heard rumours about it. Apparently, it seems that Steam & Windows have two different "licenses", think of it as buying FFXIV for Xbox (currently not able to, in this case just hypothetically) and PS4; they can't have any direct interaction with the expansions of the opposite version.
Say you purchase A Realm Reborn (FFXIV 2.0 'vanilla') on steam and wish to purchase the next expansion on the homepage of SE. As it stands right now, the key would be deemed void if it was to be spent on a steam account, unless you've purchased ARR on steam and wish to upgrade via steam.
I personally bought my version of ARR in store at launch and later upgraded (expansion) using their site.
Although I do not know the context of this case, I would presume it's the talk about aesthetics from the Mogstation store.Also could someone say, what's the deal with "items behind real money paywall" talk a few pages ago?
(to sort of explain why I poke around here now and then, while not being a player, I'm trying to follow the information about the game a little, so that if I quit WoW for good, I can make an informed enough decision if to buy FFXIV or not)
They are a bit notoriously known for hiding stuff which you could at one time obtain, free of charge, and then selling it after some time have passed for ~5-20€ (varies on region & most notably steam regional location).
For instance, the last picture below is a set you could obtain in late 2013/early 2014, which mimics Lightning's armor in the Final Fantasy XIII (13) series. Coincidentally, since I played from start to ~half a year after the initial relaunch of FFXIV (now known as FFXIV: ARR), I obtained the gear set without having to put a dime into it, however, when it became available in the mogstation, it caused a sudden influx in characters glamouring (transmog for WoW players) the set.
I felt like a special snowflake, glamouring it onto my crafting gear the whoel 2015, only to drop it due to me losing that 'title'.
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Also, congratulations.
Now to start crafting tons to revitalize the MB market.
I highly recommend you to start gathering materials for the Seafood Stew (obviously different on the German client; star 1 recipe with +12% CP (40 max) & +4% Control (25 max) (NQ version)) and craft it. It sells like hot bread even though it's seafood stew.
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Ok to put it another way.
Every year wow updates items like the Brewers mug and the headless horseman mount.all holiday rewards are roughly the same
In ffxiv EVERY years holidays have new items.
Like last year we got a flying broom mount.
Now Instead if making them unobtainable they pit them on he Mogstation
3-5 dollars for accessories/outfits
10 Dollars or so for outfits and a race change potion
15 for an outfit WITH a hairstyle
Mounts are about 20 dollars. Now two or three are shop exclusive with exclusive skins and music(so e mounts have special music)
All the prices are cheaper then wows cash shop
A race change is 10 for instance a server change is 18 AND let's you transfer EVERY character from one server to another(in WoW terms you could say transfer 11 characters from Gilneas to malfurion fir 18)
Most things are obtained in game and you get a free account bound(as in every characterizes one) race change potion.
You get more bonuses the longer you subscribe ranging from costumes fir glamor to mounts and pets
Everything is cosmetic the closest to an advantage is extra retainer's which just means more items on the market iard(AH) Abd more bank space(which is supposedly being doubled next expansion)
Oh and a thing called ventures
But those are minor advantages and barely Wirth noting.
All in all I find ffxiv system much better
YAY 60 Miner! Got lucky on getting my pickaxe too. First adamantite I collected was rated at exactly 530!