So where is 5.45???

[TheMightyMollusk]

Can't wait to hear more stories of people obsessing about craft rankings. Then complaining that they totally had to do it because Reasons™.

[Espritduo]

Can't wait to hear more stories of people obsessing about craft rankings. Then complaining that they totally had to do it because Reasons™.

The usual "I don't care about something therefore nobody should care about it" response.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The usual "I don't care about something therefore nobody should care about it" response.

Hardly. Just waiting for another round of the circular complaints in multiple threads, because checking to see if there was already a thread first is too much work. If you're so into it that you're literally scheduling your life around it, you do you.

[Iscah]

Can't wait to hear more stories of people obsessing about craft rankings. Then complaining that they totally had to do it because Reasons™.

As much as I can't fathom putting that amount of sleepless work into a mere chance at a title, I do think SE shouldn't be designing the contest in a way that encourages people to do that.

Perhaps make it more focused on quality and skill - give out a specific limited number of a special ingredient each day, say enough to craft 20 hand-in items, then people hand in their best 10 (to even out variations due to luck). Keep people coming back each day without encouraging them to all run themselves into the ground for fear that someone else might be running even harder.

[Liam_Harper]

Can't wait to hear more stories of people obsessing about craft rankings. Then complaining that they totally had to do it because Reasons™.

I avoided the last one because it wasn't worth the stress, so no we don't have to do it, but that doesn't make it good design.

FF14 has always been a game that respects your free time, then they suddenly turn around and create a competition where the only real way to reach top 12 is spend an unhealthy amount of time each day crafting the same recipe over and over, for 10 days straight. On top of this, while there were many legitimate top 12's, it's not a guarantee the top 12 ranking will be entirely free from bots.
Keep in mind this is the only endgame we have for DoH/DoL now, sure we can skip it but there's almost nothing else left besides a small dinosaur mount for 500 hours grind. Even if we aren't forced to participate there's nothing wrong with leaving feedback that it's terrible content.

For example, if they made an absolutely terrible Savage raid tier that was only available 10 days per patch and no other raids, do you think people would smile and say how it's fine because they aren't forced to run it?