[dev1200] Why the drastic reduction of prices?

[Alhanelem]

1) crafters make like six million jillion of those lower-level items. No one's making money of them
2) the price reducitons are not that drastic
3) the price reductions are in line with the cutbacks in gil rewards from levequests. Most newbie players look for NPC vendors to buy their early gear, hence why they should be more affordable.

Crafters are not being screwed by this. Not every item is available on the NPCs, and just as with the combat classes, the real oppertunity for success is in the higher levels, not the lower ones.

[Khaz]

From my experience crafting my own starting armor, the material costs of crafting the items is typically 10-50% of the new NPC prices, which should still leave lots of room for crafters to make a profit.

[Technolust]

From my experience crafting my own starting armor, the material costs of crafting the items is typically 10-50% of the new NPC prices, which should still leave lots of room for crafters to make a profit.

Yeah if you farm all of your own materials it is, but time equals money in any MMO. Also now why would I fill my bazaar with items I'm only going to make a small percentage in profit? Instead of providing a service to mid level players I will now need to find another niche until my crafts are higher.

And no I'm not one of those people that overcharge for items.

[Technolust]

1) crafters make like six million jillion of those lower-level items. No one's making money of them
2) the price reducitons are not that drastic
3) the price reductions are in line with the cutbacks in gil rewards from levequests. Most newbie players look for NPC vendors to buy their early gear, hence why they should be more affordable.

Crafters are not being screwed by this. Not every item is available on the NPCs, and just as with the combat classes, the real oppertunity for success is in the higher levels, not the lower ones.

And this is where I will disagree with you. Some of the items are drastic, when you have a 100k item selling from NPC and they drop it to 20k that is drastic. Like I said in my OP I'm fine with low level gear being sold by NPC for cheap, but come on mid level gear?