SQUARE-ENIX, remember not to marginalise crafters

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Originally Posted by Shai

Did you forget the Materia system isn't even implemented?
Did you forget that "potential energy" is worthless unless there is a conversion to another energy?

You're right. There will be a system of removing gear and we know certain gear won't take Materia or convert into Materia thus making Crafters have some power over the game again - but way to just cut them out in the meantime. Did you forget that the game was intended to allow people who ONLY WANT TO CRAFT have fun the WHOLE TIME? Not just sometimes.

Trust me, I am with many of you when I say I don't know who these mythical "craft onry" people are or why play a video game about punching dragons in the testicles and then weaving all day long - but I can entertain the idea that they do exists if the developers of video games believe them to exist (enough to cater to them... at least in Tanaka's world).

You're not wrong, but there's no excuse to bone crafters in the anoos every other patch, with the promise they'll fix it eventually "when you're idea of what's fun is a priority we'll get around to it."

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I'll be honest with you. Non disciples of war and magic aren't going to have much emphasis for a long time besides the upcoming materia work. (You're just going to have to be patient for that one. Sorry you where completely ignored save for the new repair system)
Yoshi-p is trying to make this game into what the majority users have been asking for, and the majority users don't seem to care about the disciples of hand and land. They see them as they did the XI crafting classes.

So yes, the game may have been made with the intention that "people who ONLY WANT TO CRAFT have fun the WHOLE TIME", but that ship has long since sailed. I'm sure craft only people will have more to do down the road, but for now you just have to be patient and work with what you have.

I posted this in another thread and think its logical alongsode dropped gear and weapons minster should also be dropping rare materials for weapon and gear components. I don't craft as clearly seen in my sig. However, if those classes are in and useable they should have a role of some sort within the game community and be the driving force of the economy i stand with the crafters on this particular discussion.

Personally, I'm completely demotivated getting prizes from my hard work as a melee that are incomplete and in pieces. I don't like saying, "well here's a sleeve - good job. Now go find 10 other materials and two different high level crafters that will charge you your first born son to put it together. Oh I know you camped this ingrediant for weeks but the random number generator gods decided your synthesis is going to explode"

A prize for a difficult boss fight should be just that, a reward, not introduction to even more work.

Not that I don't believe a few scattered items shouldn't be craftable, but the emphasis on it is more pleasent for me at a minimum. I like earning something and equipping it right away to show off and check it out after a long, hard fight. When I had to have NM gear finished for me by crafters, I no longer felt like it was something I earned, but rather something the crafter did for me. Despite me doing all the work and them only spamming enter a few times for a minute.

Now, not that I hate crafters or crafting. But I think there's a ton of really creative things that can be done with it to maintain a role in the future besides just gluing together melee weapons and robes for adventurers. I think it may be a bit of a wait before that becomes our reality.