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[Jinko]

- In very general terms, Japanese players tend to grind crafts more than English speaking players. English speaking servers may tend to suffer from a shortage of high level crafters to make gear and perform repairs.

- Crafters also keep the economy going as they buy and sell materials during their leveling up. Market wards on English speaking servers could stagnate.

I know you said "general terms" but don't think this is true at all, most of my LS have multiple lvl 50 crafting jobs, most of the people I talk to from other guilds have crafting jobs also.

What with Materia being such a central part of the game you have to have crafting leveled IMO.

I'm sure the economy will do just fine if the servers become more split, that being said Yoshi said they are planning on making crafting extremely stream lined and not having botched synthesis any more, so im sure it will entice more people to start crafting.

[Mikita]

I know you said "general terms" but don't think this is true at all, most of my LS have multiple lvl 50 crafting jobs, most of the people I talk to from other guilds have crafting jobs also.

It's great that your LS members have ranked up their crafting.

I was speaking from my own in-game experience -- and with all due respect, I guess our experiences differ.
On my server I do know a number of English speaking players who devote a lot of time to crafting... but I feel they are somewhat exceptional. I know many more who think it is boring and refuse to touch it.