Please don't gate 3.2 crafted gear behind specialists.

[PROBOUND]

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No insults, just clear observations on the attitude most people seem to have in these specialist rant threads (weather they are true or not is up to the eye of the beholder).

This is life. Supply and demand my friend.

Why should the buyer shop at your family run business when they can just go to walmart?
Should walmart not lower its prices or put out sales to its customers because your Mom & Pop shop is struggling to make ends meet?
Why does everything need to be affordable?
Do you think buyers should care about making gil?
If the buyer doesn't have to work for the things they desire, whats going to keep them playing the game when they have everything?

Coming from someone who is part of the 1%, i have more gil than i'll ever be able to spend. Sometimes i spoil friends, craft them items they would never be able to afford, but one thing that i've learned throughout my years is that these friends/people appreciate and value those coveted items much more if they actually put in the work themselves to earn them.

If everything was given to the buyer with little to no work (gil) involved, what would be the point?
If Omnicrafters could make everything, earn gil, and never have to buy anything from anyone, would that make for a healthier economomy?

[Katlyna]

If everything was given to the buyer with little to no work (gil) involved, what would be the point?
If Omnicrafters could make everything, earn gil, and never have to buy anything from anyone, would that make for a healthier economy?

The problem is that at the moment micro-monopolies are worse than omnicrafters. Which is what SE has created. The micro-monopolies result in crazy prices which stay over a longer term. They can get rid of omni-crafters but they NEED to make specialist top crafting more accessible if they are doing this. Otherwise the net change is more unhealthy than where we were previously at.