o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[ViolentDjango]

It's complicated because you need to make part, like real life. You don't put two iron ingots together and an Excalibur is made. It's the sole reason why I like to craft in this game, whereas I largely ignore them in other games.

The problem with this is that it you need multiple craft skills in the real world to be able to make those parts. Someone who can smith a sword probably knows any number of other talents that allow him to be able to achieve quality work on his own.

In game, they are moving towards limiting how much one person can do (much to my chagrin), and as such they have to move the crafting system away from concepts that over complicate the process and suggest that you should max out every class.

The only other option is for people to buy those extra parts, and that just makes the gear itself that much more expensive. When you have to pay 5k for a buckle, 10k for a strap of leather you can't make, and it costs you 30k worth of materials to make the "parts" of the gear you're about to put together (which, in the case of say, a doubet, meant making the back, the front, the sleeves, etc), then additional materials to synth it all together, your end cost for gear skyrockets.

Worse over, the levels required for certain parts for lower level gear were stupidly high. I remember early on your needed iron buckles for a piece of rank 10 or 11 gear, and the buckle required rank 25+ or something to make.

That's just asinine.

Its better for them to remove the superfluous parts and add in the materia system to allow us to expand our crafting options. Frankly, I'd love if Materia worked the way it did in FFVII, allowing us to add stats and abilities to items at will, but I have my doubts about that.

And the end of the day: THIS ISN'T REAL LIFE. If you want to invest time and effort into doing something with real world value to make yourself feel good... go out and actually learn how to craft a sword or make a shirt... or learn to play guitar, or something.

Most of the stuff in the game up until now has been overly complicated ,and its going to keep getting "dumbed down" because that's what's going to make the re-launch of the game work. Its fine if you don't like it, but its what's going to work. Obviously with how bad the original launch was, it doesn't matter what the current community has to say about it, because it is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than the one they are trying to attract.