Crafted Gear releasing on the same patch as the first Savage tier

[LianaThorne]

I saw this argument on JP as well, they typically all go to Mana to raid and supposedly it is the same exact scenario that NA faces regarding Aether. Crafters on Crystal and Primal will be at a huge disadvantage.

This is technically true, but it depends on the person selling. There's nothing really stopping anyone from making alts on Aether and selling your gear through them. By this point the lock on world travel would be lifted so statics can have all of their members. All you'd need to is to progress far enough on your main to buy an apartment, get a mannequin, lock your items as a set for purchase and have the alt buy them for 1g or whatever. You're ultimately trading to yourself so it's not "violating" anything.

I've brought this person up before but I had a friend on Dynamis who played on multiple servers and sold furniture. They cleared 1B in profit when Empyreum opened just by crafting on their main and selling the items on multiple servers.

Anyone who is also concerned can keep an eye on the PF for those hiring crafters for savage. You'll just fill orders for whoever hired you and get paid at the end. I did this once and made about 80m gil in 6 hours.

Just a reminder, everyone flooding to Aether is a community made problem. Square didn't force anyone to go there for raiding. We, as a community, assigned Aether as the server to do content on and this is the consequence for it. I don't expect them to do anything to fix it but if they do then awesome. Otherwise, it's probably a good idea to start figuring out how to make things work with what we have. The community wanted convenience over building up their own DC and this is a side effect of it.