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I guess if you count pure subscription numbers as "success", maybe.

I have... more criteria than just that, personally. You can get people to come, but do they stay? Subscription based services are only good if people stick around. Otherwise you get 1 month of sub and then the customer leaves and you get nothing afterward. I'd think a game that has 100k subs who stick around for 5 years is more successful than the game that has 200k subs, where 150k of them only stick around for 3 months.

Amen to that, lol.

Casuals and hardcores deserve content and care. Do that, your game will be big. And FFXIV is on a wonderful, more successful path than WoW did at the 5 year mark, starting with 5.1. Imagine where FFXIV will be in another 6-7 years.

Anywho, my point is... crafting should have casual and hardcore content. I think anything that's not Star recipes should be made a bit more accessible and easier, but Star recipes should be difficult. 1-Star is like Extreme Primals, 3-Star is like Savage Raid, and 4-Star is Ultimate, IMO.

As much as I campaign for easier crafting, I am perfectly fine with not being able to do Star recipes. I don't, however, like seeing normal recipes being so bloody difficult to do while leveling. I just don't think that should be a thing.

Perfectly said. Couldn’t agree more. For some reason though, most of FFXIV’s community is a tad bit selfish, and believe hardcore players do not deserve content or attention even in the 1% - 5% slightest. It’s all about them. Then forgetting these people also pay for the game, not just them.

Luckily Yoshida is a cool guy, and he’s not one for discriminating against others. I assume this crafting change didn’t happen during 4.x because they were so focused on Hrothgar and Viera, etc.