Square Enix, please think about both Casual AND Hardcore crafters..

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You calling us “elitists” basically just proves my point, lol. Arguing over this isn’t going to go anywhere. We simply want content, plain and simple. And yes, there should be a barrier that separates the two types of players. Also, since you really want to go there. You should stop treating hardcore players like they are some upper class, super secretive, super hateful, super snobby group of people that want everything to themselves. Ironically, the ones that seem to want everything to themselves would be a few casual players thinking they run FFXIV. Hardcore players are actually cool, we just want content.

And um, no. We’re not going to “inevitability” go through that. Really tired of repeating myself....but, Yoshida has made it clear that (we assume 5.2), HQ’ing recipes will require procs and cannot be macro’d like you for some reason, think it will. We just aren’t sure if that’s endgame recipes he’s referring to, or just high tier Ishgard content. The only thing that’ll “inevitably” happen would be players with your mindset making threads about how “unfair” it is that players actually earned their exclusive top tier Ishgard rewards and how they should have it too, with little effort.

I don’t know why you act like this is something so horrible and evil. Literally every video game you know of has some sort of barrier or gate, with rewards, that separates players who don’t care or are lazy, and players that are hardcore or just want rewards. Common practice in the industry. Stop trying to turn this into a casual only game, we pay for the game too. That’s my point here.

Sorry, but hardcore players are really fed up with 2+ years of easy crafting, and no hardcore content at the very least? There’s a limit. You can’t just completely butcher a system and expect 90%+ of your players to be okay with it. I’d say at least 40% of people aren’t okay with easy crafting. They just aren’t vocal on the forums because they have either ended their subscription or just given up trying to convince people. I’m basically their voice on this thread. Casuals and hardcores deserve content. By that, I mean, there should be a bubble for casuals....and a bubble for hardcores. Stop trying to lump them together in the same bubble. That’s ridiculous.