Please let us socket materia without crafting

[Shurrikhan]

Gathering is hard, crafting is even harder. The fact that many don't elect to do it doesn't make those who do any less valuable or make them greedy either. You want to be able to do what they do work for it and stop with the give me this for free stuff.

How about the give me this for fun stuff? To be honest, if crafting and gathering were just actually enjoyable to more than half the game's population, this thread would not have nearly so many pages right now. "I did my time, so why don't you?" shouldn't be thoughts we find in a game.

(Additional vague attributions of blame towards glamour system and retainer policies and/or inventory space omitted.)

But, whatever, this thread isn't about that. It's about how a simple, otherwise positive occurred (actual gear customization! ...albeit faint) had a particular oversight (raid gear didn't need crafters before, and now it does) that others want to remedy only insofar.

P.S. Indeed, all the people I know who are nice enough to spend money for others' sakes craft or gather. How else would I know they're so nice? After all, they'd have virtually no money.

[FritoBandito]

To be honest, if crafting and gathering were just actually enjoyable to more than half the game's population, this thread would not have nearly so many pages right now.[/SIZE]

I'm with you on this, especially for gathering. There are multiple ways they could have made the gathering much more fun. For example, with fishing all they needed to do was put in a little mini-game like what was found in Zelda and it would've been a hit.

I think crafting would be fine like it is but without so much luck involved (something with an 80% chance of success should not fail MOST of the time!)

[Felis]

I'm with you on this, especially for gathering. There are multiple ways they could have made the gathering much more fun. For example, with fishing all they needed to do was put in a little mini-game like what was found in Zelda and it would've been a hit.

https://youtu.be/6hIoyNfqlG8?t=214

[Conradus]

I'm with you on this, especially for gathering. There are multiple ways they could have made the gathering much more fun. For example, with fishing all they needed to do was put in a little mini-game like what was found in Zelda and it would've been a hit.

https://youtu.be/6hIoyNfqlG8?t=214

You used to have to play minigames with Miner and Botanist, too. Have you seen the arcade games "Out on a Limb" and "The Finer Miner" in the Gold Saucer? Those are basically the minigames you used to have to play to mine and harvest.d It did get kinda tedious when you need a lot of material...

[Erendis]

with fishing all they needed to do was put in a little mini-game

Imagine trying to catch a thousand fish and having to do that mini game every single time. No thanks.