o.O Overkill on the crafting Dumb down?

[MariyaShidou]

They haven't abolished the crafting system. You're exaggerating the situation and making an argument out of nothing. My point stands. They are trying to streamline the crafting system in order to alleviate pressures on the inventory and (someone else had mentioned) that since they are introducing some expansion to the crafting (Materia) that it would be prudent to make sure you don't have an overly complex system. Unless SE adds a way to expand inventory (2 retainers isn't helping and I'm up to 8 retainers) and guarantee the number of active players throughout each time zone, there isn't going to be one popular solution. Also, "again" implies that I've been pushing a type of argument repeatedly. Not sure if you need glasses for a deficient vision, but what you quoted was my very first response in this thread (this particular post is now my second)

Too many parts and too little inventory: Instead of making a better inventory system, let's abolish parts.
Parts are sometimes too high level compared to finished item: Instead of fixing the level needed, let's abolish parts.
Ul'dah ward is stuffed with various things, but Gridania and LL wards are empty: Instead of making all the wards linked as a temp solution, let's abolish parts so people don't need to use wards.
Synthesis is too slow and spam buttons: Instead of making a more transparent process, a better mini game, address the lag after every action, let's abolish parts so you don't synth parts.

And you are telling me that I am exaggerating?

[Aeyis]

Thread summary tl;dr:

Don't dumb down crafting untill after the market ward/ah system has been improved/implemented and we can actually see how crafting works out with a usable economy.

[Holland]

Too many parts and too little inventory: Instead of making a better inventory system, let's abolish parts.
Parts are sometimes too high level compared to finished item: Instead of fixing the level needed, let's abolish parts.
Ul'dah ward is stuffed with various things, but Gridania and LL wards are empty: Instead of making all the wards linked as a temp solution, let's abolish parts so people don't need to use wards.
Synthesis is too slow and spam buttons: Instead of making a more transparent process, a better mini game, address the lag after every action, let's abolish parts so you don't synth parts.

And you are telling me that I am exaggerating?

Yes, you are exaggerating things. You are basing your aguments on one detail revealed on the Crafting overhaul. You are saying the whole crafting overhaul = removing parts.

~ You have no details on how high level recipes will be addressed
~ You have no details on how the Materia system will affect the complexity of the crafting system as a whole
~ You have no details when they will address the mini-game process to make it less repetitive (though they have already confirmed they will review this)

All they are doing is removing a time consuming (not for the better), bothersome step of the crafting process. Its FFXI all over again, where most mechanics were time consuming just for the sake of it, not because they added a necessary layer of complexity and strategy to it.