whats the point of crafting...

[Aylis]

I'm not trying to be rude here but I do not know how you can honestly expect crafters to look forward to, well, apparently nothing but furniture for the next 6+ months.

This, this right here. At the upper end the game has only a very small and limited synths that would be considered useful for the majority of the player base. As of now the game offers little incentive to craft a majority of the items for either personal use or for sale. At least on my server only the hardcore min maxers seem to want to take advantage of the two-star equipment. Which I'm not by trade and I know I'm not the only other one that isn't. With Philosopher Token, Mythical Token, Primal Weapons, Relic weapons so easy and fast to obtain. It seems kinda wonky the most time consuming and invested items in the game are also the weakest to a majority of players.

I understand the concern over RMT especially within crafting, sadly either way its handled it will always be a problem. More so with higher item costs, weither by the item itself or the costs in gil for materia it will always be a problem. It doesn't seem right however to punish the innocent players that want to make, use, sell the equipment legitly for themselves or others due to concerns over an outside source.