Materia System

[LateReg]

That happened to scorpion harness much later in the game, it was a 6mil item for a long time, wasnt till they had better, more easily attained gear that it dropped.

Here is the thing, there is no chance of failure on the first binding. So why should it cost more than repairs, which have a chance of failure? Only because of marketing.
Peregrines point, is that crafters wont want to work by commission, when they can make money. There are a lot of crafters who wont craft if you bring them the items, why? because if everyone gathers items themselves, the crafters as a whole wont make money. They may do it for their shell mates, but not for the average joe. Heck i remember early on in this game, when someone joined a crafting LS and they said their ls had said they can make item for people anymore, just wait till they make it themselves.

Its not in the best interest of a corporation of crafters to offer socketing services, when they can make more money off selling socketed items. And it would be logical to do this, if SE makes the system this way.

heres the key, crafters will pass any costs of materia back to the people they buy it from, and a cost for them doing the work, will it be a reasonable cost? probably not for some time.
Compound that to the fact, the crafter has the least invested in these ventures. Adventurer buys gear, wears it does whatever to get attached, gatherer farms up catalysts. The only thing the crafter does for this system is a guaranteed synth, why are they the ones that control the final product? The one who puts in the most work is the materia creator, unless the catalysts are super rare/in insane places to get to.

Maybe they should make a socketing npc and just leave the crafters out, or make it simply an option. Crafters will be making way more items, and thus already getting something out of the system.
We dont need to add an extra middleman cost to the prices, and basically ensure that it will be more profitable for crafters not to socket things for people with the required items.

Huh? It doesn't matter if the Harness was 2mil or 20mil NQ, you missed the point entirely. I know how much it was, I played since Japanese PS2 Beta...

I was saying that if you, as a bonecrafter, bought a Claw (which was always the same price as NQ harness, if not more), you would always lose money if you didn't HQ, and this game is matching that right about now, at least on my server. I listed some exceptions in my post.