Specialist Recipees: Why do the developers keep listening to bad requests?

[Joronas]

I'm very confused regarding the concept that Specialists should be as good as omnicrafters... Do people just not know what what it means to be a Specialist?

"A Specialist should not be better" does nothing but display a gross lack of understanding for what the word even means... News flash though, if you want to Specialize in everything, nothing is stopping you. This isn't real life, where you can go to medical school become a general practitioner, or specialize in cancer treatment, or bowel disorders, or pediatrics, or whatever.

I'm a generalist programmer? I can do everything, and am harder to replace then the specialists. I watched people try. They might be able to do some tasks easier or faster; but I can do them as well. This is a game that's designed around the idea of you can do it all on one character. Forcing alts just to make a few people feel "special" about a pretty tag that took no effort at all ....

[KleeneOnigiri]

This is a game that's designed around the idea of you can do it all on one character. Forcing alts just to make a few people feel "special" about a pretty tag that took no effort at all ....

But you CAN specialize in all with one character. You can always use red scripts in order so change your specialization. Your problem with that is, that it take a lot of time.
But that was always how MMOs worked, and that's how FFXIV always worked. You love to compare it to combat classes, and with combat classes it's the same. You can't get the best gear for everyclass in a short time, it's impossible. Because there is a weekly cap of Allagan Tomestones. But it IS possible to get every gear in some time. Same for crafters, there is a weekly cap of blue/red scripts. And with time you can be "everything", it's possible to do everything. Just not at once.

And THIS is actually what your problem is about. You wouldn't mind specializations, if there wouldn't be a red scripts lock, that forces you to wait. But that's how it works for MMOs, since they don't want you to play the whole game through in one week. They want you to progress slowly but steadily. And this is true for combat classes and now also for crafting and gathering classes.