Please change crafting NQ/HQ plans to not penalize current players.

[Zoltan]

Like many people I have been playing FFXIV for a long time and for many hours and believe that planned changes should be fair to the players who are playing the game.

There have been many posts on the proposed changes, but I want to beseech you to reconsider.

First of all, the changes of NQ/+1 into NQ and +2?/+3 into HQ are just not fair. How are players to continue after the 1.20 update when all of their High Quality +1 gear is reduced to normal quality? Whather you took the time and materials required to make a +1 version or spent gil to get a HQ version, you should not be penalized by an update.

Secondly, you have indicated that having all HQ synthesis materials will result in 100% HQ finished item, but is there any chance that NQ items could result in an HQ synthesis? As a crafter, I implore you to keep this possibility. We often spend hours grinding through materials and recipes and can sometimes sustain the supply of materials or crystals by creating the odd HQ item.

Lastly, I would like you to consider how to remove lowballing from the market process. Currently all players can see the offering prices of all items and many unscrupulous players simply list their items lower than the cheapest item in order to sell their item faster. This seriously impacts crafters. We simply cannot sell items to finance our crafting.

I would like to see a blind auction system where the nearest price sells before the lowest price with a price range of the last 100 sales indicated to the buyer. Prices should fluctuate with supply and demand but not be as easily manipulated.

Thank you for your hard work!
[dev1016]

[User201109011315]

It's kind of stupid from my point of view, not to mention unfair. Shifting a tiered HQ system into a non-tiered HQ system just so you can add a tiered materia system is a bit redundant... Or perhaps redundant is the wrong word. Rather, it's just a waste of time. They're just moving sideways for twice the effort.

Why not just keep the original tiered HQ system and add a non-tiered materia system?

Who knows how the developers arrive at these strange conclusions!

[AuctionGirl]

They should keep the +1/+2/+3 items in tact... and HQ materials should be made equivalent to +3 materials right now, and the crafting system semi-stays the same. If you use all HQ materials, you are guaranteed at minimum a +1 item of choice. DoL should only get the NQ/HQ materials and stop getting +1/+2 materials.

Changing the grade of existing tools/weapons/armor is completely unfair as some of the synths in the game are HARD to produce +1/+2, and some are really simple to create +1/+2's. Why would you penalize all the players who worked hard for those items?

If you screw this NQ/HQ thing up, you can expect a lot of unhappy players and potentially 1 step closer to shutting this game down. To me this will either be a game maker or game breaker, as I have loved the current crafting system with the multi-tiered items. I even thought maybe a +4 was required in the game.

PLEASE SE - DO NOT CHANGE FINISHED ITEMS NQ/+1/+2/+3!!

Keep them intact please!

[Medura]

Honestly? I hope they make +1 and +2 into NQ, elsewise we would get an extreme jump in economy ... AGAIN! :S
At the moment the economy is pretty nice

Penalize us! Make +3 only HQ!

[Medura]

"Lastly, I would like you to consider how to remove lowballing from the market process. Currently all players can see the offering prices of all items and many unscrupulous players simply list their items lower than the cheapest item in order to sell their item faster. This seriously impacts crafters. We simply cannot sell items to finance our crafting.

I would like to see a blind auction system where the nearest price sells before the lowest price with a price range of the last 100 sales indicated to the buyer. Prices should fluctuate with supply and demand but not be as easily manipulated."

I am VERY against this. This being one of the main reasons i stopped playing ffxi. A blind auction might give crafters better income. But those who buy must use 3 times as much time trying and failing! :S

To "play the market" is a job in itself, it is the point of the game, to profit from what youre doing. To sell an item worth 1k gil for 100k gil will not make the game better. To constantly check your retainers, thats one of the points in being a crafter.

[Konachibi]

Use a retainer?

Whenever I get short on gil I create a few Dodoskin Harnesses and sell them for 6k each to a vendor. Dodoskin's aren't hard to come by, the buckles sell for 50 gil each so it's easy to get an enormous supply of those, same with antelope sinew cord, and sheepskin + dye is easy enough to farm.

Kinda like what I said to a friend yesterday when she wanted to pay me for repairing her stuff:
"Gil means nothing to me, crystals and shards however, they're worth something."

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Get over it. Things like this are going to happen when you allow people to play a game while you're changing it. If you're so afraid of stuff changing, then you shouldn't play until they say they're done changing the game.

[TonyMontana]

Honestly? I hope they make +1 and +2 into NQ, elsewise we would get an extreme jump in economy ... AGAIN! :S
At the moment the economy is pretty nice

Penalize us! Make +3 only HQ!

They wont.

[Viridiana]

Lastly, I would like you to consider how to remove lowballing from the market process. Currently all players can see the offering prices of all items and many unscrupulous players simply list their items lower than the cheapest item in order to sell their item faster. This seriously impacts crafters. We simply cannot sell items to finance our crafting.

I would like to see a blind auction system where the nearest price sells before the lowest price with a price range of the last 100 sales indicated to the buyer. Prices should fluctuate with supply and demand but not be as easily manipulated.

Thank you for your hard work!
[dev1016]

If you need money, make something with a better supply/demand ratio. Don't screw over everyone else just because you don't want to follow the basics of supply and demand.

[Medura]

They wont.

Actually, they haven't decided yet .... yes, i stalk the devs.