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While players will be playing through Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker during December, they will also be enjoying the holiday season in real life. Eorzea actually has its own holiday called The Starlight Celebration, which resembles Christmas in its themes of red jackets, gift-giving, and fir trees. Final Fantasy 14 has had Starlight events every year dating all the way back to 2010. Within these events, players can get holiday-themed items such as trees, clothes, barding, minions, and food.
Players with FF14's in-game houses have a particular fondness for the furniture that can be gained from the Starlight events, which include large glowing Starlight trees, tabletop snowmen, gift boxes, wreaths, and more. However, if anyone wishes to buy these items through the Market Board, then it will quickly become apparent that they will cost an arm and a leg, ranging from one million to 15 million gil. With this in mind, buying these items with real money on the Mogstation is actually the better option.
The Items And Their Cost On The Market Boards
Of all the holiday decorations, the trees are the most desired. They are perfect to turn any house into one with holiday spirit. There are four different kinds of holiday trees that can be bought on the Market Board, with the Star-topped Starlight Sentinel, Moon-topped, Sun-topped, and the regular versions on offer. The cheapest of them across Aether at the moment is the regular tree priced at 1,626,450 gil, and the most expensive one is the Moon-topped Starlight Sentinel at 500,000,000 gil. For players that wish to have something under their tree, the Empty Twinkleboxes sell for 5,145,000 gil at the current cheapest.
The trees are not all there is, though, as there is also the Starlight Interior Wall that can turn an entire floor's worth of wallpaper into a seasonal theme. The cheapest available on the Aether Market Boards currently is two million gil. For homeowners that want a wall decoration, there is the Starlight Wreath which has its cheapest price at 3,950,000 gil. There is another wall item called the Starlight Ornament which is more merciful at 700,000 gil being the cheapest. The cheapest of all items are the food, including the Starlight Dodo and Starlight Cake which can be bought for under 10,000 gil.
As to why these items are so expensive, it is because they cannot be obtained easily by means other than real-world money. The Starlight Interior Wall, Starlight Wreath, Empty Twinkleboxes, and trees with the sun, moon, and star toppers were only obtainable by participating in the 2014 in-game event. The regular Starlight Sentinel and the Starlight Ornament were rewarded only during the 2015 annual Starlight Celebration.
The Mogstation Comparison
The Mogstation is where players can go to purchase in-game items for real money. Within gaming culture, there are players that frown upon this outlet, but Final Fantasy 14 tends to be far more humble in its items than other MMORPGs - with most of its for sale items being from previous events. This includes items from previous Starlight Celebrations, such as all four Starlight fir trees. The website actually offers more than what is allowed on the Market Board as well, including snow piles, Starlight Pillars, snowmen, posters, Goobbue Wreaths, Starlight Saplings, and many types of present boxes.
All these items individually cost between five to 10 real-life dollars, and logically make more sense to purchase cheaply with real money than expensively with in-game money. After all, the items are purely decorative and are only useful to players with in-game houses. Unless a player is in-game rich, gil is better spent on gear, minions, mounts, food, crafting materials, glamour items, actually getting one of FF14's in-game houses, and the great furniture that are not available on the Mogstation.
Final Fantasy 14 is available now on PC, PS4, and PS5. Endwalker launches on December 7.
