A good friend was banned for RMT

[Gurgeh]

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That is also such a wild statement. Where do you think the gil from RMT comes from? That someone just sold their earnings?

From my perspective, it seems like your underlining my point. According to you, there is little difference between RMTers and the people who use crafting gathering QoL advatages (QoL), saving for one is more honest and open than the other. You certainly wouldn't have an RMTer in here disingenuously acting as though QoL addons aren't a 'massive', 'HUUUGE' advantage over the woeful state of the infuriating, friction at every button press, barest minimal help, state of the game as is. Endlessly complicated recipes that none overcomes without just getting straight into crafting optimiser (or far worse).

Not that you have suggested such, but others most certainly have. As others have seen me say before.
I wanted to do savage.
I want to do it after I have cleared Ex.
Ex takes all my time for two weeks, I don't have time for anything else.
I want to be ready geared for Ex and Savage by only doing casual and normal content.
I need to be geared in two job roles.
Need to be ready for savage in two roles in time for week 2,3. (So normals and tome gearing with it's caps are useless, not to mention tedious and boring after 4 to six weeks)
I'm not doing the tedious meta gil farming methods.
Rouls need to earn way more gil than they currently do, or crafting frankly needs to be fixed. There are currently a hundred ways it is broken in the game currently.
There is no way there are any serious crafters + end gamers on console. I just don't believe it.
Dedicated passionate crafters, not doing raiding, yes.
Raiders not doing their own crafting yes.
Not raider/omni-crafters. (Unless you want to count the odd very rare freak , and good for them, but thats not any of the average Joe's in these forums with their "you should do what I'm not even prepared to do myself")