Please Remove the Materia Melding Crafter Restriction

[Lexia]

You people are really pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience.

[Kaurie]

You people are really pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience.

Conversely, "you people" are really pushing hard to keep a minor inconvenience.

[Lexia]

Conversely, "you people" are really pushing hard to keep a minor inconvenience.

I'm not pushing to keep it but I also don't think it something that really needed for the devs to take time to change.

[CosmicKirby]

I'm not pushing to keep it but I also don't think it something that really needed for the devs to take time to change.

Considering I can get to the very last step of the process, but the button is simply grayed out, I can't imagine it's a lot of effort to change. As is you don't even need to have the class equipped to perform the meld, I imagine it's only making a check to see if the class is level 60 and nothing else. That's usually incredibly simple to change.

[Conradus]

Conversely, "you people" are really pushing hard to keep a minor inconvenience.

No, you're pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience. We're pushing hard to preserve crafting as a meaningful pursuit.

[Mutemutt]

No, you're pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience. We're pushing hard to preserve crafting as a meaningful pursuit.

Maybe I'm weird in never, ever thinking of melding as a meaningful crafter experience. Actually, it usually would just fill me with dread, whether it was my gear being melded or me melding someone else's gear.

I'm honestly surprised so many seem so... excited by being able to meld things only as a crafter.

[CosmicKirby]

No, you're pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience. We're pushing hard to preserve crafting as a meaningful pursuit.

It is literally the most binary player interaction possible. It isn't worth defending. The name I choose to give a commendation to has more interaction and impact. Picking a name from a list is more compelling than clicking "Confirm" to meld a materia.

Why would you not instead ask Square to make crafting rewarding in and of itself? If crafting is such a chore that people don't even want to level it, that's incredibly telling. Trying to hold onto some old artifact of design in the name of 'relevance' when you want a more rewarding experience in general is absurd.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

Hard to say what his reasoning is without further details.

And I don't deny that. I can't say that the crafter that did the meld accepted that high tip either. Regardless, this is still an apt microcosm of the macrocosm.

You people are really pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience.

"pushing" and getting the issue seen is the only way things get changed around here. If you see something you want to have changed and don't say anything then don't be surprised if change never comes.

[Delmontyb]

You people are really pushing hard to remove a minor inconvenience.

It's feedback that we want to provide.

I can understand peoples adversity to change, but here we can tell the developers our feedback to various systems, and provide feedback on other ideas as they come up, so that the developers can make the best decision with their development time.

From reading this thread, I think the argument breaks down into two categories:

1. We should change this system to be more open to all players and remove this as an inconvenience.
2. We shouldn't make this change because it's just a small inconvenience.

The problem I have is I haven't seen a good reason not to make this change, and the arguments that it brings people together and makes the world social seem like a stretch, being that this isn't the pillar which all social interaction in this game is based, and if it was, we'd have bigger issues.