Quote Originally Posted by syntaxlies View Post
Quote Originally Posted by TheVedis View Post
using your example in the current issue

player a who farms his own mats is dumb for making the item to sell, he coulda sold the mats for 60k, but he chose to make the item and thus his effort becomes 30k

while player b who bought all the mats, can only sell it if he takes a massive loss, thus making it not worth doing it at all, its imposible for him to profit in the given situation no matter what he does
this was my point earlier in the thread when i responded to someone who said you aren't suppose to profit from crafting or something like that,lol.
But Vedis it's not the game/community's issue that 1 can do and 1 cannot do.

Ok let's take a step back... why do you craft? For gil? For XP? Why?
To answer myself, I do it for gil tbh. The XP is a bonus and fortunately or unfortunately depending how you look at it, what I "need" in order to make better items for more gil.

If someone is unwilling to take the time to gather their own mats to craft then so be it but you can't shouldn't say that they should not be "punished" in a way because they don't want to do what hardcore crafters/gathers do.

It's a game and I don't mean XIV I mean markets whether real or not. Play it or you lose out. It may seem unfair and it's happened plenty to me. I either just say screw it and NPC it OR I might stay logged in selling from my bazaar.