crafting is gone

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No one said crafting needs to be difficult. The "high end raider mentality sort of player" crafter merely wants a small handful of challenging crafts at max level only, while you, the regular player can now enjoy your streamlined 1-80 leveling and access to the vast bulk of recipes in the game. Yes, you see difficult crafts as tedious or boring or a mess or w/e, we however enjoy it. Different preferences.

Why are people so selfish over this? We're asking for a small 1-2% section of crafting right at the top to cater to that challenge we enjoy and casual players are still up in arms because they see it as some sort of attack on crafting as an entirety and want access to the entire 100% for themselves. Let us have that tiny bit of content.

FFXIV seems to be the only game in existence where most of its community think they can drive out hardcore players and turn it into a casual only game, lol. Quite silly.... and It’s mostly trying to be pushed onto crafting the most because:

“OmG rIcH pLaYerS eliTiSt”
“cRafTiNg tOO haRD SE, PlS neRf 4 eAsY gIl maKinG”
“ItS nOT fAiR, hAStY tOuCh Is MeAN”.

Then they forget that Yoshida is a kind dude, and most likely will not “drive out” hardcore players because they say so. Casual players can have their own content, so hardcore players should too, even if it’s just 5%. It’s kind of a selfish mindset, really.