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

[TonyMontana]

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

I know they havent decided yet but they still wont. I see you have the one craft at R40 so you have a small sliver of crafting exp. Making +3s the only HQs will not happen. Making +3s almost never happens. They would be punishing a HUGE portion of the player base and rewarding almost no one. Maybe thats what you want to happen because you are concerned for PS3 players. SE should be smart enough to realize how negatively it would impact future game sales. So again I will say...

They wont.

[Medura]

I know they havent decided yet but they still wont. I see you have the one craft at R40 so you have a small sliver of crafting exp. Making +3s the only HQs will not happen. Making +3s almost never happens. They would be punishing a HUGE portion of the player base and rewarding almost no one. Maybe thats what you want to happen because you are concerned for PS3 players. SE should be smart enough to realize how negatively it would impact future game sales. So again I will say...

They wont.

Though, if they made +2 = +3 they would be punished those with +3 ones EXTREMELY MUCH MORE! (I got no +3 items myself, but i still got that opinion.)

[TonyMontana]

Though, if they made +2 = +3 they would be punished those with +3 ones EXTREMELY MUCH MORE! (I got no +3 items myself, but i still got that opinion.)

You mean the 20 of us with +3 end game items? Yeah im sure we will manage.

[Medura]

You mean the 20 of us with +3 end game items? Yeah im sure we will manage.

Hmm, maybe ...
Though, im not just as sure about the market ...

[Deminia]

Where is the link to the announcement made regarding this? I just went back and re-read all of the recent producer's letters and the "in development" section and I can't find any mention of this other than "Reworking of HQ crafting" and "Reexamination of and adjustments to HQ crafting." (quotes are from the 9/1/2011 Producer's letter)

[Medura]

Check newest dev posts. Also, it is on lodestone.

[Arcell]

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]

Dear god no. Being able to see prices is in favor of the buyers sure but it also makes things less complicated. Personally I'm more of the frame of mind of "Just tell me the damn price and I'll buy it". I'm just not a big fan of guess-buying.

[TheVedis]

They havent officialy stated wether or not stuff will be "converted" to the new system or not

for all we know, +1/2/3 will remain in tact, andf you just wont be able to make any new ones
and the nq/hq system will overlap it

[Ragz]

I don't mind the change at all, it makes things alot simpler and is better for the game in the long run. It's worth to take a short term penalty (and really, it only effect a handful of people with +3 end level equips, and those tends to be the people who can absorb these kind of penalty best) if it has a long term benefit, which I think it does.

[Rinsui]

How are players to continue after the 1.20 update when all of their High Quality +1 gear is reduced to normal quality?

I don't know... like before?

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.

How dare they! I mean, how dare they sell their products for less outrageous prices!