Quote Originally Posted by Malevicton View Post
If this is inconvenient for you, then sorry. But let's not make it out like part of the player base is forcing their will on crafters. Crafting is a sidequest. The Main Scenario Quest is, well, the main quest. In almost all games ever you have to keep doing the main quest objective in order to unlock the side objectives. I don't see a problem.
Offline games, perhaps. I can't think of another successful mmo that forces questing in this manner. When an expansion hits, if you are at level cap, you step into the new expansion.

I understand that a sizable portion of this particular playerbase is perfectly ok with gating others out of content (for whatever reason), but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a discussion on the subject. Square made their bed when they decided to make crafting such a big deal in this game. It's only natural to expect those crafters to now feel bait-and-switched.