Quote Originally Posted by bungiefan View Post
The main problem is that all the good gear 76+ comes from Abyssea, which doesn't use gil, so gil becomes nearly worthless to high level players, and they have all the gil while the low level players have almost none. As high level players don't need much gil, they don't craft things to sell to lower level players. I'm mainly spending gil on my mage jobs for scrolls, and buying from NPCs for less then the AH quite often.
To me, that sounds like it's incentive to get new players to start crafting, so that they can make their own armor. Just like it was back in the day. The only problem is players are going to get so used to 'easy mode' exp that they'll not want to spend the rigorous training and time sink to skill up anything else.

Though there will be some who care.