Well, it seems like they are officially making crafting (and gathering, but gathering kind of needed it.) a lot easier again...didn’t think that was possible, lol. I knew it wasn’t going to be a balanced change, and would further unbalance crafting even further in terms of easy difficulty. At this point, it seems Square Enix has completely deviated from what they originally intended crafting to be back in 2.x and 3.x, and made it extremely child-friendly. But, that’s their decision and I respect their decision to never step in difficult territory again, that’s fine.

However, I will not continue to repeatedly pay a subscription for a game that I find the developers do not care for players like me. I’ll likely only play when occasional patches come, like the Yorha raid, that’s about it. I will say without a doubt, that this is the first time that I’ve ever seen the end game market become so full of players driving prices down. I usually support low prices due to players who can’t afford things, but the way things are now, it isn’t even worth my time to even be a crafter anymore. Very sad direction this game is going in now.

I do hope the players that enjoy easy crafting further enjoy the game though, because square Enix seems to favor these types of players a lot, no matter what. And for players that are like me, all I can say is that it’s 99% likely never going to become balanced in difficulty ever again.

Hopefully in the next ff mmo they learn from their mistakes, but the only thing I actually enjoy in ff is pretty much gone, so I’ll probably play BDO.