How FFXIV's Richest Players ACTUALLY Make Gil

Do you ever watch random Final Fantasy 14 YouTubers, - see their gil, and think to yourself, "How come this guy has 999 million gil? And yet here I am not spending anything,. and yet I struggle to pay for - my 10th teleport to the Waking Sands today"?. - This is fine. If you do, you're most certainly not alone. I think pretty much every player wants to know - how you can make this much gil. The problem is the people who have made that much - have no reason whatsoever to tell you how they got there. The methods of making gil. that are commonly thrown around - get you some of the way. But nothing you will find online - will make you a rich player immediately. Most gil-making videos just reiterate - the same two methods over and over. And yet hardly any of them actually work - to the degree we'd need them to - if we wanted to amass this much moolah. This is why I've mostly stayed away - from making a video or two per week - about the latest and greatest, gil-making methods. And that's why this video, too, will not be a guide - and instead some general advice - that I've learned over multiple years. Let me tell you about the biggest farce in this game. Everyone will tell you. that leveling your crafters - and then simply crafting the latest gear - is what you will make gil with. This might have been a good source, of gil a few years ago. But, nowadays,, there are more players. Crafting is easier than ever. And there are people throwing resources at you. You can find the perfect melds - including the crafting rotations. you need online - and get into it within 20 minutes - of reaching max level. on any of the crafter jobs. In short, the supply, for max-level crafter gear - as well as consumables, is higher than it has ever been. In fact, the entire crafting market is just a giant ouroboros. The majority of crafters. are just making things - for other crafters to make money with - for other crafters to make money with and so on. I remember watching so many videos - on people claiming to have some method - of making gil once the patch drops. And one of those methods. included stacking materia. Now, selling materia, in general, is not a bad market. However, when you start stockpiling materia, - the problem is you actually have, to end up selling it all. The flaw in the logic here. is very obvious. First of all, they made videos on this, - telling everyone the exact methods that they're going to use, - meaning everyone was doing the same thing. And, second of all, high-end raiders play this game so much. You can bet that they. already have all the materia - that they're ever going to need. The end result was hundreds. of frustrated players - with stacks of 300 or more - of whatever materia in their inventory - and no one to actually buy it. At least not at the price. that they were hoping for - and not without them camping their retainers all day. Another piece of wisdom you will hear, over and over again, as well, - is to craft during, the release of a major patch - and sell new gear sets and raid consumables. The problem here is that not only do you have - to not have a job to play - whenever the servers come online,, which is usually a Tuesday. You're also going to have, to play the entire day - because you will be undercut constantly. And that's after you spend

millions and millions - on your own gear,. materia, and crafter food. It's frustrating, time-consuming, - and there's just a lot of luck involved. Over my time playing this game,, I've never had a single one - of the people I play with. get rich overnight - during one of those patch releases. They always complain about. the market for two days, - make back the gil they spent on gear and maybe a little bit more, - and then they end up burnt out, after spending the majority of their week - pressing their macro button over and over. I'm not saying it's not possible - to make gil with crafters --. quite the contrary. But the gil you're looking for - is probably not in the items, everyone else is looking to craft as well. The one thing anyone that has. a large amount of gil will tell you - is that, above all, what really sells is one thing: convenience. Ironically, players hate having to put in the least bit of effort - to solve small problems but are happy spending hours upon hours - AFK crafting for a few hundred thousand gil per hour. The thing they hate the most - is looking up where to get the small things. This is where the easy gil can be found. To name just one example,, one of the biggest markets in the game - isn't actually gear or raid consumables. It's furniture. Every day, millions of gil. are spent by players - looking to decorate their houses or apartments. And virtually everyone buys their furniture. off the market board. Many of the furniture items you will find, use items from timed nodes - or weird items that have to be bought. one at a time from housing merchants. They're a nuisance to craft, - especially when you're. in the creative workflow - of designing your dream kitchen. But players are willing to spend. extraordinary amounts of gil - for the convenience of, simply getting these items - instead of having to, create them themselves, - even if they know full well that they are massively overpaying. To back this point up, and at the risk, of ruining my own market here, - I've been pulling in close to, half a million gil per day, - selling windows, at little to no competition. That's just about 10 or 20 windows per day. And, usually, players will, buy them in bulk. I buy the steel ingots from tribe vendors - maybe every two months in, like, stacks of 999. I gather the timed logs. whenever I feel like it, - which takes perhaps a minute each time. The craft itself only takes. a single button. It's not a macro. The item itself doesn't even have to be high quality - because no one cares about. the quality of a furniture item. So the total time investment per window - is probably less than 30 seconds, - including the time I spent gathering, and putting it on the market board. And yet the competition is close to nothing. I usually put the windows up in the morning - after just getting them, from my retainer's inventory, - where I put them after crafting them,

in bulk within 10 minutes, - which I do about once a week. And all of these windows will have sold by the evening. This is just a single item. Think about the total amount of gil - you can make from, various furniture items. And, even if you can't, or don't want to craft, - convenience is still something, you can make gil with. For example, there's dyes. There are many dyes that can only be bought. from beast tribe vendors. Buying these in bulk from the vendor, and selling them over time - at a price of 20 to 30 times the original vendor price - isn't uncommon at all. You may think. that this is a tiny market - and there's no way you can get rich off of it. But the thing is the time investment. is close to nothing - outside of checking your sales, on the market board once or twice per day. And when you can sell the dye, that you bought for 200 gil for 3,000 gil. That's a profit of 277 thousand gil per stack. And that's without crafting anything. The reason it sells, again, is convenience. To buy the dye from the vendor, - the person buying has to first know - that the item can be bought from a vendor. Then they have to. actually have the resources - to figure out where it's sold. Then they have to have the tribe that has the vendor unlocked. And then they still need to fly over there - to buy 10 measly parts of dye. I would wager that 90 percent of players. would rather buy the dyes - off the market board, to get it over with. And telling you about the market of reselling dyes - actually doesn't hurt me at all. Because if there's one market, that shouldn't exist, it's this. There's one last factor, that I want to mention - when it comes to making gil, - and that's the amount of time you have to invest. An item may sell for 10 million gil, - but if you have to invest 20 hours, of your time to get it, - was it really worth it? What you need to be thinking about, is not just the total sale price - but the gil you can make per hour. The thing that will make you rich. isn't something that takes hours per day - but a little bit of effort at a time. The goal is to have something sustainable. The truth is that the majority of players - has, realistically,, two hours to play per day. And that time can be better spent than pressing a macro - to craft consumables for tiny margins. It's better to sell 100 thousand gil worth, of easily-crafted items - than spending two hours crafting - maybe half a million worth of consumables. With these points being made, - here are the three ingredients, for your perfect market niche: low supply, convenience, time efficiency. Will finding that niche. make you rich immediately? Most definitely not. The players you see, with a large amount of gil - have acquired it over years. The guy with 999 million gil probably took advantage - of every gil-making opportunity, over multiple expansions. And I'll bet he wouldn't be, crafting consumables right now. At the end of the day,. the players who have that much gil - probably do it because they enjoy it. For them, it's the main part of the game. To anyone that gets stressed, about making gil, - you can get by just using the gil. that the game throws at you - for certain weekly, or daily content just fine. Thanks for watching, and I hope, I'll see you in the next one. Peace!