Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
For every person that buys a Skip pot for crafting there will likely be tens to hundreds that don't. People already balk at Cash shop items in general and while everyone on the forum would love to tell you that everyone is a boosted noob who doesn't know what to do at 70 it's much rarer than they make it. There will be people who have time and no money most definitely making these low level crafts to level their characters. People who would buy pots are unlikely to be those who'd bother crafting useful things anyway, same people who'd follow a crafting guide and just Gil their way up.

Some people avoid the crafting grind because it's such a tedious waste of time. Letting them skip it doesn't lose you any low level crafts, it just increases the mid and high level crafts which , yes, might drive prices down a little but I think there's a bit too many people obsessed with stockpiling (useless, as said by many forumgoers) gil for no reason other than having it.
So then why do they want max level crafters if they don't like the crafting grind? It doesn't suddenly change as content just because you're max level. If anything it becomes worse because end game gear can require 150-200 steps unless you've spent a fortune on materia to max out your overmelds so you can use all NQ mats. Even then you're still looking at about 80-100 steps per end game piece (or paying others large sums for materials they've already crafted).

If those players don't want the grind, then DoH/DoL is not the content for them anymore than Eureka was content for players who dislike old school MMOs. What are they going to do when level caps get raised and they're suddenly faced with that grind after all but on a more difficult level?

Adding a skip potion would only remove the low level crafted goods from the market boards since many of those who would otherwise level DoH jobs normally would go ahead and pay for the potion because of the convenience just as I have friends who are paying for jump potions for DoW/DoM jobs that they would have still leveled without the potions but instead use the jump potions for convenience.

Too much convenience gets to be unhealthy for MMOs. Jump potions for something that is side content definitely would be unhealthy.