Item Binding

[Keku]

I craft/gather and have all jobs leveled so I am trying to post this as unbiased on the good or bad for crafting side.

problems I see:

1. People will be more gimp then they are end game knowing the gear they have before the u/u drops will be worthless so why spend money on a good meld that will hold you until you get your drop item? don't say this won't happen because I have seen enough people who want to raid in very cheap gear already this number will increase if all they buy is worthless later.

2. those who do not craft may be kinda screwed before people could get by on limited funds and still have decent gear because they could sell and buy newer gear without taking a huge hit until end game which is when everyone really cares about having the best anyway.

3. prices will go up SE seemed worried about the economy and high prices, this will inflate things more creating less supply for same demand, yes certain things may go down like expensive melds because people won't want to spend tons for an item that has no value later. But basic gear will go up in price a lot, and it's not that lower level gear didn't sell before I would sometimes make it and sell it for fairly high prices because nobody else made it, why would more people make it now just because it disappears? there was little demand because there wasn't many low level people, not because there was tons of stock.

Only things that had high amounts of stock from what I saw was SB items which were bought for the sole purpose of binding and most of it was junk gear anyway that would not be used aside from binding. Aside from this certain high end stuff there was a lot of.

4. I also like to give away my old stuff sometimes to those who could not afford really good gear. Also I would lend stuff to people for fights sometimes not just because they forgot can also be because they could not afford some of the stuff to make a specific job better.


Well either way it will probably happen, I have played some other games I don't particularly like it in general systems in other games most things have no value except dungeon drops which in FFXIV, hopefully most if not all stay u/u, I don't like the idea of selling good dungeon drops personally, so I hope they remain bound.

I also like FF MMOs because they are not the same as other MMOs, I do want them to take good aspects from other games but I also want it to be it's own different game in enough aspects that make it better to me then the others, like great quest/story content, amazing graphics and a community that really is way closer knit then other MMOs I have seen.

[Kryptic]

I craft/gather and have all jobs leveled so I am trying to post this as unbiased on the good or bad for crafting side.

problems I see:

1. People will be more gimp then they are end game knowing the gear they have before the u/u drops will be worthless so why spend money on a good meld that will hold you until you get your drop item? don't say this won't happen because I have seen enough people who want to raid in very cheap gear already this number will increase if all they buy is worthless later.

2. those who do not craft may be kinda screwed before people could get by on limited funds and still have decent gear because they could sell and buy newer gear without taking a huge hit until end game which is when everyone really cares about having the best anyway.

3. prices will go up SE seemed worried about the economy and high prices, this will inflate things more creating less supply for same demand, yes certain things may go down like expensive melds because people won't want to spend tons for an item that has no value later. But basic gear will go up in price a lot, and it's not that lower level gear didn't sell before I would sometimes make it and sell it for fairly high prices because nobody else made it, why would more people make it now just because it disappears? there was little demand because there wasn't many low level people, not because there was tons of stock.

Only things that had high amounts of stock from what I saw was SB items which were bought for the sole purpose of binding and most of it was junk gear anyway that would not be used aside from binding. Aside from this certain high end stuff there was a lot of.

4. I also like to give away my old stuff sometimes to those who could not afford really good gear. Also I would lend stuff to people for fights sometimes not just because they forgot can also be because they could not afford some of the stuff to make a specific job better.


Well either way it will probably happen, I have played some other games I don't particularly like it in general systems in other games most things have no value except dungeon drops which in FFXIV, hopefully most if not all stay u/u, I don't like the idea of selling good dungeon drops personally, so I hope they remain bound.

I also like FF MMOs because they are not the same as other MMOs, I do want them to take good aspects from other games but I also want it to be it's own different game in enough aspects that make it better to me then the others, like great quest/story content, amazing graphics and a community that really is way closer knit then other MMOs I have seen.

^This.. item binding is really not a necessary feature for this game. It seems they are trying way to hard to make this a WoW clone I pray to every God that it isn't.