Light or Full Party requirement for Workshop

[Teryaani]

That's something that SE cannot control. :\ They know there will and would be people who'd abuse it and they had to think of the few who would, instead of the masses who wouldn't. So yeah it does suck, but it is what it is. SE cannot control the portion of players that are greedy to the core and strive to have the most gil they can get their grubby hands on.

Like I said, maybe when the market has calmed down and the expansion has been out for a while, they'll consider removing it.

Except that by gating it like this, you make the resource more rare. Increasing the number of FCs that need to buy the components rather than crafting them themselves. Which drives the price up. So all you do is add more money to the FCs that have a large base of crafters on regularly. Edit: and to the gil sellers who multibox anyway.