Quote Originally Posted by Gilthas View Post
Developers keep screwing up Crafting and Gathering with their obsession with inflating prices on the MB.

Best thing that could happen to DoH and DoL at this point is removing the MB from the game so the developers stop designing the game around it.
The problem is they haven't found a proper gil sink for the game yet. Housing was short term. In FFXI the long term gil sink was Dynamis (a million gil each time you wanted a group to run a raid together, later on dropped to 500K) but with a Duty Finder system that isn't going to work. Since a regular source of income isn't needed if all you want to do is DoW/DoM and do story stuff, they need a serious cash sink targeted only at the crafters/gatherers that will somehow benefit larger groups of people.