Is it me or is the Crafting market going to die?

[Mikki]

Also last I checked, it isn't the players unwilling to go through long grinds that are complaining about the status quo; quite the opposite. They're the ones with the problem. There's an air of smugness and disdain from these players towards newer players. Kind of like when you bring home a second cat. It's almost like you welcome that cobweb of ridiculousness that was the previous crafting system in order to keep the casuals at bay. Because it was such a convoluted mess that most just didn't care to deal.

If they simply cleaned up the crafting system, I'd be fine with that. Personally, I don't mind that they got rid of cross class skills - if anything, this almost made it REQUIRED to be an omnicrafter if you wanted to craft at all...which is why there ARE so many omnicrafters. I think the line up would be more diverse if they didn't do this in the first place so I'm glad they scrapped it. I don't mind that they made crafting easier - all you had to do was a little bit of google-fu anyway and you'd be on track just as much as the best crafters out there if we're completely honest.

But what I personally DO mind is how easy they've made it to level up with nothing to gate people from capping in pretty much a single day. If they had made every change that they did but people still had to rely on leves, beast tribes, GC turn-ins, etc.... so at LEAST there is a real sense of investment if you want to get into crafting....then I'd be fine. But no. They can, at virtually any level, saunter over to Ishgard, buy mats for pennies a piece on the market board and proceed to spam their crafters to max level with no effort or really even time required. All I would wish for is that they'd have to actually put in some determination and take the time like the rest of us have, even if it's a bit more pleasant than what we dealt with thanks to the crafting system clean up.

Heck, since I just did the trek from 0 to 70 last expansion, I KNOW the requirements and barrier to entry was really daunting. I wouldn't even mind if they upped the exp gained so at least it didn't take ages. But it SHOULD still take time. It should be an investment and I feel like I've been slapped across the face for all the time I've put into leveling mine when if I had just waited an expansion, it would have been handed to me on a silver platter with minimal effort. Feels bad. ((Although, if I had waited until this expansion, I think I'd still be sad because it cheapens the feeling of accomplishment if I barely had to work for it imo)).

But this is just my perspective. I'm sure newcomers are happy about it and if it draws new players, then SE must be happy too. Like I said before, this is all subjective. Just sharing my frustrations and PoV.