Quote Originally Posted by Naoki34 View Post
The truth is that with FFXIV, it's not undercuting that's a problem but the casualisation of crafting. Before to ARR, HW, SB. Crafting was only accessible to the most motivated, the majority of people stopped at level 30 because after that it became too complicated and required a lot of time to get the gear, then gather the components and then craft.

If you compare the components required for ARR and HW crafting to today, the components are extremely simple to gather and crafting is extremely easy.

Too many competitors and the prices go down. We used to be more reluctant to lower prices because the ratio of crafting time to selling price wasn't profitable.

Today, anyone can craft for very little effort.
I miss when crafting and gathering was hard and not for everyone. Omnicrafter had meaning then, now anyone can claim they are a omnicrafter just by taking a day or two to level everything up.