MithraPride

I like to keep my current crafting levels updated and on display using my Bazaar comment box. Sometimes they draw comments, people complementing me and such. But sometimes I get the wrong type of attention. People look at my skill level, assume I must be loaded, and immediately start trying to get "hand-outs" out of me. Very few times I'll actually give something out, like one guy needed 5k for a Tenshodo Invite once, so I donated to a good cause, things like that. Now, I'm not what you would call "stingy". I give gil to and even make things for friends from time to time.

Usually it just makes me angry that people in-game have the nerve to beg for money just because I "might" be rich based on my gear or craft skills. The money and skill I have I worked hard for. I learned everything on my own through trial and error and researched many ways to make money and craft on my own as well. I tried just about everything, including gardening, before finding my niche. I didn't do anything halfway either, so it took a while, but I eventually gave up my other schemes, kicked cooking to the side as a cheap and low return craft, and decided to try real crafting in the form of Clothcraft.

At my current skill level and with my sub crafts I can make a decent income without having to do much work, its true, but using my crafts to complement farming works so much better for me. So the truth is, even though I'm slowly becoming a true high level crafter, I still work for my gil. I don't work as hard as I did leading up to now and I make several times more money, but it was a huge investment to get to this point and even now 80-90% of my profits go right back to crafting.

So the big question is: Why after I worked so hard to have what I have, should I give anything to money grubbing little trolls? I guess these are the same people that are likely to support the gil sellers, but even then, there's got to be some reason why they're predisposed to even ask/beg in the first place. If I had to guess I'd say these people are probably the same way irl too. Greedy, selfish, good for nothing... Stop me if I'm being too harsh, but those who refuse to work or even put in the effort, I resent them. I'm more inclined to give 1 gil and say not to spend it all in one place.

I always laugh at people randomly asking for money.
I've got a signed Gold Ring from a friend who quit the game (but is now back I think) in my bazaar, some nubby saw it and sent me a tell "Give me that ring." I just looked at him and laughed, then he said "Then some gilz?" Again I laughed at him.
Really where do these people get off just asking strangers for money?

They ask because sometimes people give.

I will help people, even buy newbies armor and weapons, but I do not give Gil away.

I see them as the online equivalent of the bum on a street corner.

Keavy wrote:I see them as the online equivalent of the bum on a street corner.

Unfortunatly there is no Blacklist IRL.

Yeah there is, it's just called a different name or rather: House+soundproofing=RL blacklist

You could also add loud music for effect.

There was this one guy that was always begging for cash at the big mall by where I live and he had a sign that read "God hates greedy people" and he became a bit of a local celebrity.

Then they opened a mall twice as big about 30 minutes away then shortly after that IKEA opened their new store and business at the mall by my house dried up and he moved on.

The mall by me still gets busy and we still see helicopter shots of the packed parking lots every holiday season but the overall traffic isn't what it once was.

I don't give strangers anything. At least strangers who ask for stuff.
Gave a newb in my party a couple of kabobs because obviously he can't afford 20K a stack (what a rip!), I was teaching him the ropes One more enlightened soul

Sugami wrote:I don't give strangers anything. At least strangers who ask for stuff.
Gave a newb in my party a couple of kabobs because obviously he can't afford 20K a stack (what a rip!), I was teaching him the ropes One more enlightened soul

I'm the same actually. Aside from friends, I'll sometimes give things to newbies that I run into because I remember how hard it is starting out. But if they start begging even while I'm considering giving them something then they go from newbie to begger and I won't give them anything.