Does SE just hate crafters?

[Burrmanchu]

See below. Someone honestly summed it up better than I could.

There's amazing and intelligent replies between here and there too. You'll love it.





Ok I lied about the last part.

[Lyrinn]

One-track minded much? Low-mid level gears are selling like crazy because of all the spiritbonders trying to take advantage of the materia prices.

[Mandudez]

Yes.

#lolbadcrafters

[Donjo]

Lyrinn makes a great point. Demand of one commodity is usually coupled with demand for whatever is necessary to find/make/use it. As a crafter, you make money by playing the market, meaning that you study the Auction House, figure out what's most in demand, and make that for maximum profit. If Materia isn't tied to your profit anymore at the moment, just do something else. It's not like you're no longer able to make money.

It's also worth noting that, on Diabolos at least, Materia prices went sky high the second the patch dropped... but they're already lowering and now aren't that much higher than usual anymore. 2-5x the previous price instead of 100x is definitely more manageable.

As for your third note...

You're only paying a sub to run Brayflox if that's what you choose to do with your sub. But hey, if you want to pay $15 a month to run a 8-10 minute piece of content over and over, more power to you. SE is still getting your money. The rest of us will do all of the other things the game has to offer instead

[Black91CRX]

Why people would pay outrageous prices for materia when they can bond their own in less than an hour is beyond me.

[Lemuria]

Why people would pay outrageous prices for materia when they can bond their own in less than an hour is beyond me.

That part should be pretty obvious. Why spend 1hr to spirit bond a few materia when you can purchase 20 of them in only a few seconds? We live in an age where people are more than happy to pay for the convenience of having someone else do the work for them.

Higher grade materia is a pain to get since you'll need higher tier equipment or you need to get lucky with an ilvl 55. Using higher grade equipment also bumps up the costs considerably, making it hard to justify when compared to the countless cheaper alternatives already on sale in the markets.

[SharpShooterMel]

That part should be pretty obvious. Why spend 1hr to spirit bond a few materia when you can purchase 20 of them in only a few seconds? We live in an age where people are more than happy to pay for the convenience of having someone else do the work for them.

Higher grade materia is a pain to get since you'll need higher tier equipment or you need to get lucky with an ilvl 55. Using higher grade equipment also bumps up the costs considerably, making it hard to justify when compared to the countless cheaper alternatives already on sale in the markets.

Exactly. People rather pay then take the time like some that don't mind the farm or grind.

[Yumi_umi]

Nah SE only hates crafters without a hefty amount of gil, but they also hate ppl with mountains of gil.
That a side, more power to ppl buying my materia ^^

[chidarake]

2 posts in a row where I'm agreeing with lyrinn.

you just have to look at the lower end gear that all those people will need to spiritbond for there materia, so long as it stays cheaper for them to spiritbond there own gear people will do that. if its just as cheap to buy the materia then why spend time spiritbonding.!?

there's lots of things crafters can create, how about pvp gear or furniture, dyes, glamour prisms, other mats for other crafters!?

[Sakasa]

You know who this is really hurting? The new guys that are one tracked mind on progression so they are told yeah relic its easy to get but they can't buy the materia at remotely reasonable ranges forcing them to learn lol spiritbonding tactics. But hey I'm glad people are doing it was worried that battle materia was going to rot as crafting materia skyrocketed.