


First press and hold the lefthand button to position your Moogle on the horizontal plane, and then press and hold the righthand button to place it along the vertical plane. The way it works is you have 15 seconds to position your Moogle on a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. It costs 1 MGP to play and you earn 10 MGP for grabbing one of the blue balls, or 25 MGP for grabbing the red ball. It’s also my favourite Gold Saucer minigame, and I often play it after jumping off the stage from playing The Slice is Right or Any Way the Wind Blows. The Moogle’s Paw minigame is located on the Northeast side of Event Square, right next to the Aethernet Shard actually. You can also find a general overview of MGP sources in this post over at Basically Average.

Check out my GATE guide for the schedule as well as tips on how to do well at each of the different events. If you’re looking to farm MGP for a big ticket item, you’ll see more success from doing GATEs which run every 20 minutes at the Gold Saucer. It’s a personal challenge to do well, but it doesn’t give me a lot of practical benefit. I think of the MGP reward as being more like a high score table at an arcade. Sure, they do reward you with MGP, but compared to other activities, the amount you get from minigames is kind of piddly. They’re one of the few pieces of content that I think you just play to have a bit of fun passing the time. While much of FFXIV’s activities offer you a worthwhile reward for the time investment, minigames at the Gold Saucer don’t have anything so enticing. Even if it’s all for fun, I still get enjoyment out of improving at something, and conquering each of these minigames can be quite satisfying. In this article I’m going to give you some minigame tips I’ve picked up from my many hours lounging in the Gold Saucer. They’re a side attraction to help pass the time while waiting for a party to fill, duty to pop, or GATE to start. These arcade machines in the Gold Saucer are fun little skill-testing games to challenge yourself with. Alongside the dramatic events on the big stage, there are prize counters, flashing lights, and arcade games everywhere. FFXIV is sometimes called a theme-park MMORPG, and I definitely think of the Gold Saucer as being part of the carnival.
