Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
From what I've understood, the Stormblood weapons are supposed to be something else entirely. They heard the feedback from the player base that we hated the crafted items step, and the devs realized that putting that step in encouraged very few people to actually craft and gather and just resulted in gil flowing into the hands of very few players, so they've said it would be removed. I wouldn't be surprised if other steps, like FATE farming might be gutted as well in order to introduce something new. At least that's what I hope.
The SB relic weapons are going to be a part of Eureka. This is also why we aren't getting the weapons in 4.15 since they had to push Eureka back.