ffxi vs wow pt 2

Gil vs Gold

This one is pretty straight forward. WOW has a more "complex" money system. Having bronze, silver, and gold. Where as FFXI has Gil and Gil. So which is easier to make money on? Well, hands down, the answer is WOW, but lets see why.

There are 2 problems with FFXI. 1 is the AH. It only allows 7 items to be posted on the AH at a time. On the plus side, the cost to post something is negligible compared to WOW. 2 is that most things do not sell for much to NPC's. The one really nice benefit FFXI has is the bazaar. Unfortunately you have to be logged in to run a bazaar, but it allows you to easily sell stuff no matter where you are in the world.

WOW doesn't have anything like a bazaar. But considering you can place unlimited number of items on the AH, do you really need a bazaar? Not to mention that you can make pretty good gold just selling random drops to NPC's.

On the servers I use, right now, gold costs about $10 per 1000 gold. In FFXI, it costs $20 for 500K Gil (remember ffxi only uses gil, it doesn't have the bronze and silver levels below the gold). So that means that 250K gil is about the same as 1000 gold. In FFXI, I hadn't seen 250K gold until I was around level 60+. But in WOW, I had my first 1000 gold before my first character was level 30.

Granted, I learned some things in FFXI that made it a lot easier to make money in WOW, but even so, WOW gold is a lot easier to come by. I make the majority of my gil/gold using a strat that I call O.P.S. This is where the unlimited number of items on the WOW AH makes it really nice, because you can list 20+ things at a time. When I first started WOW, by the time I got to Orgimar the first time (level 10), I had about 2 gold. By properly buying things and selling them on the AH, when I logged in the next morning, that 2 gold had become 54 gold. The biggest problem with this strat is that when other people here about it, they get greedy. Buying something for 50 silver that sells on the AH for 20 Gold sounds great. But when you buy 15 of them, and list them all at the same time, the market will be flooded, and none of them will sell.


So anyway, as far as making money in game, WOW is definately much easier.