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

[Maeka]

Who knew, whoever might have guessed that 'facts and sound logic' were actually just codewords for 'a biased interpretation of my personal view of events, used to justify an emotional appeal toward giving me and people like me exclusive access to everything that makes this entire feature of the game even worth pursuing.'

Crafter mains, who actually legitimately think that sitting down with a stack of materials and following a flowchart for eight hours means that they should by all rights get elected king of the market board; the ones who actually unironically lament quality of life changes because it means that the competition isn't gated out by absurd and punishing RNG requirements. 'Bring back weekly red scrip caps,' they'll cry! 'Reward us alone, the chosen ones, for having eight crafting alts in this great community! It's too easy for the *casuals* to approach being able to craft proficiently! Change it! Change it so I can go back to accumulating my Sisyphean amounts of wealth and feeling smug in my sense of superiority over the fact that I know which button to push if it lights up! It's not good for the health of the game that this system actually benefits people that aren't the 1% of players willing to throw their entire /ptime at it! Fix it!!'

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Spot on.

And LOL @ the response she gives you to this.

Oi.

I just have to ask, just what does anybody do with 1 BILLION gil per month. Seriously, now. The most expensive thing in the game, not counting player market, is what again, 40-45 million?

[Callinon]

I just have to ask, just what does anybody do with 1 BILLION gil per month. Seriously, now. The most expensive thing in the game, not counting player market, is what again, 40-45 million?

I'm envisioning something like Scrooge McDuck. Or it'll be one of those people who thinks buying out an entire housing ward is a cool thing for cool people to do.

[Maeka]

I'm envisioning something like Scrooge McDuck. Or it'll be one of those people who thinks buying out an entire housing ward is a cool thing for cool people to do.

Something like that.

They are partly what is responsible for inflation, as well. The people who have to make ALL the money, and then when they can throw it around all willy-nilly, then the price of everything goes up so they can make even moar money, meanwhile newbies/casuals suffer for it and/or worse, they cause developers to have to change things to combat this.