Crafting (Monopoly, Recipes, Challenge, Relevance)

[darkstarpoet1]

i'll say i don't believe any higher percentage of people hates crafting than they do tanking, main healing, support brd, or gathering on a 1-1 basis. each aspect of the game will have a small percentage of people that wants to do so and that's how it should be.

the game should never be to where everyone likes one aspect of the game and wants to main at it because then the rest of the aspects are wasted development time.

[Mikita]

i'll say i don't believe any higher percentage of people hates crafting than they do tanking, main healing, support brd, or gathering on a 1-1 basis. each aspect of the game will have a small percentage of people that wants to do so and that's how it should be.

the game should never be to where everyone likes one aspect of the game and wants to main at it because then the rest of the aspects are wasted development time.

True.

I also get the impression that a lot of people here hate crafting (and gathering), but in game I know quite a few people who actually enjoy those activities. Granted, most of them are Japanese and almost none of them participate on the forums (even on the Japanese side).

But I do agree with the OP in that there has been a general lack of love for crafters (and gatherers) since the development team is so tied up with 2.0 and at the same time producing battle content to keep players busy.

At any rate, it will be interesting to see the player poll results, and then what direction Yoshi P decides to take based on them.