Quote Originally Posted by TwistedTea View Post
When everyone and their aldgoat is a pentamelded omnicrafter, no one is.
Why are some hardcore crafters hell bent on having this content exclusive to them? To this day, I continue to get the impression that greed is the main reason for the flux of crafters and gatherers being a problem, and the desire for difficult recipes is to monopolize those goods on the marketboard, and prevent casuals from being able to craft them. It's load of selfish rubbish. Convince me I am wrong.

You don't create a mmo, and then figure out ways to reduce accessibility to its content for the playerbase. Crafting market won't die as a result of increased accessibility. It's still a continuous game of supply vs demand and prices will fluctuate and adjust as they always have. This should not be an issue when it comes to being able to easily budget your expenses while still making a profit. If you're FFXIV epeen however, is measured by how much gil you own then yeah, big problem for you.