FFXIV: Cheat 2 Win - The New Norm?

[Vexander]

I'll never support bots, but I do understand what the person is saying about how cheaper things are better for DoM/DoW players. Rather than support bots, I would sooner support a system in place to avoid price-gouging and crafter circles creating a monopoly and jacking prices way up because they would be no alternative for players.

To put it a different way, I remember when the Eikon stuff came out, I didn't buy a single piece. 2million Gil for a Non-HQ piece of the set? No thank you. Several patches later its sold for about 200K or lower. I buy the set for less than a million.

Who does this benefit?

Not me. Tome gear is ilvls ahead of Eikon now. Its just Glamour.
Not the crafter. They paid/farmed for mats worth millions of gil at the time and are selling at a monumental loss.

Now if the prices had been more reasonable back when it was new, I might have gone for it. And of course, 'Reasonable Prices,' is subjective. There are players out there with enough gil to buy entire housing wards. Then there is the 99% of players who don't gave millions of gil on hand to throw at whatever the latest crafted set is.

[Evangela]

To put it a different way, I remember when the Eikon stuff came out, I didn't buy a single piece. 2million Gil for a Non-HQ piece of the set? No thank you. Several patches later its sold for about 200K or lower. I buy the set for less than a million.

Who does this benefit?

Not me. Tome gear is ilvls ahead of Eikon now. Its just Glamour.
Not the crafter. They paid/farmed for mats worth millions of gil at the time and are selling at a monumental loss.

Now if the prices had been more reasonable back when it was new, I might have gone for it. And of course, 'Reasonable Prices,' is subjective. There are players out there with enough gil to buy entire housing wards. Then there is the 99% of players who don't gave millions of gil on hand to throw at whatever the latest crafted set is.

I remember all of these. And they were trying to make millions of gil selling relic mats as well.

Now I suppose to feel sorry for the crafters because they're making less money because of the gatherer bots? Hell no.