Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
It's so mindnumbing that even if you would reward people who can sit through that many life hours hitting the same button over and over...why would you?
This was written on page 1 and is the most important point of all, in my mind.

I'm unsure of a perfect solution but crafting can't stay the way it is for this game to be successful. So many players making the argument to keep the system are making convoluted statements about rewarding time invested and other things.

The bottom line is, crafting is boring. I can't imagine anybody signed up to play an MMO to sit still and hit the same button over and over without any critical thought or strategy.

The game has to be fun to keep players around. The addiction to character development wanes if it's purely a treadmill system we're running.