MogBonanza hits Final Fantasy XI, kupo!

by Seraphina Brennan on May 1st 2008 5:30PM

Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Contests, Events, in-game, News items, Consoles

Our inside source with the Vana'diel moogle guild has revealed that the moogles are up to some fun for the adventurers! Moogle technology has recently improved to the point where they can now draw numbers carved on marbles out of a huge bin and reward prizes to those who hold the winning numbers. What does this mean for you? Massive cash!

To celebrate Final Fantasy XI's sixth anniversary, the moogles are giving out many great items with a top cash prize of 100,000,000 gil for the player who matches all 5 numbers. It should be noted that even 2 numbers matching gives you a chance to win 100,000 gil!

With Square-Enix's crack down on real-money trading and gilsellers in an attempt to stabilize the economy of FFXI, it seems really odd for them to be infusing a huge prize of 100,000,000 gil into the economy through a contest. But, hey, we're not going to be complaining. Would you want to turn down 100,000,000 gil? We think not.

[Thanks, FusionX!]

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Tags: contest, ffxi, final-fantasy-xi, kupo, lottery, moogles, playstation2, ps2, square-enix, xbox-360

Reader Comments (3)

Throwing money into the economy makes sense if you're trying to attack goldsellers because by flooding the economy evenly with cash, you destroy their inventory of stock-in-trade cash AND reduce demand in the short term. Then you transition to a less gold-dependent gameplay model.

I'm pretty sure this was blizzard's plan when they introduced the new easy and ridiculously lucrative daily quests. They want to wreck demand for gold by providing easy non-RMT alternatives.

Goldsellers don't benefit from the daily quests because it's hard to level a character to 70, and they don't dare have 10 level 70 characters on one account because they'd lose too much if the account was deleted.

Unfortunately, with the SE's crack down on RMT in FFXI, they destroyed the economy. It is nice to have things at a more manageable and affordable level, but the things that used to be true money makers are no longer as profitable. Over the last couple of years, the Special Task Force has done an amazing job at keeping excess RMT gil out of the game, and made camping some NMs much easer since their drops are no longer sellable...

There will probably be very few people who actually win the 100,000,000 gil, or even the 10,000,000. They are offering some verious serious prizes besides just the gil, but in the case of the Rank 1 and Rank 2 prize, the gil is by far the best value. As far as the 100k gil goes, the other prizes are actually a little better, and 100k may sound like a lot, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not very much at all. For newer players, it's a good haul though.

The "Mog Lottery" is something players have been asking for, for years. Thank you SE for finally figuring out a way to give us our lottery, and a cheese sammich!

So if you get to pick 10 different sets of numbers of 5, and all 5 numbers were random, then there'd be a 1/10 000 chance on winning. Since the population of the servers are around that (and/or a bit below) then it would seem reasonable that at least someone would win the rank 1 prize. This is of course if everyone enters with 10 tags each.

100 million would get this taru a lot of money for relic and salvage armours! >@

Just waiting for that grilled sandwich synthesis recipe...