Crafters only make money from other crafters this must end

[Xenor]

Another noob at its finest. #1 idea to kill market gj.

Coming from a douche who has been playing a couple of months.

If you had played 1.0 you'd understand how an economy works without bind on equip. I made an absolute fortune selling HQ weapons and these were weapons that had been in the game over a year. Of course this was because you couldn't pop out HQs one after the other, another major difference in this economy.

I can tell you now that no player with any sense is going to pay decent money for crafted gear when they have to toss it as soon as they get their allagan or AF+1 piece. Might be why your stuff is only selling to other crafters.

I don't even bother with crafting in ARR because the economy is trash for a crafter compared to that in 1.0. It's all generic trash with materia shoved in it to try make it look better than it is. I'm not going to say which is better because it's completely different. 1.0 was a crafter's market where you made big money quite easily if you were good at producing HQs, whereas ARR is a buyer's market because people don't need your stuff and your stuff is the same as everything else on the market boards. Just glad I made my money when the going was good.

[OldGeezer]

...I can tell you now that no player with any sense is going to pay decent money for crafted gear when they have to toss it as soon as they get their allagan or AF+1 piece. Might be why your stuff is only selling to other crafters.

And yet I've made as much money in 2.0 as I had in 1.0 with the 10% gil readjustment. You won't make killings but you will continue to make good money with the new economy.

[Raiz_Cineris]

And yet I've made as much money in 2.0 as I had in 1.0 with the 10% gil readjustment. You won't make killings but you will continue to make good money with the new economy.

This is because people only look for large sells. They want to sell something for 50k a piece. no one really wants to try their hand at selling things in increments of 1k.

Thats why the market is dead because the only thing selling for 5 and 8 digits are hq and end game craft gear. /SARCASM

[Malamasala]

Let me buy crafted vanity gear and your problem is solved.

Though that would require the items to drop from dungeons and stuff so that people who fight instead of craft can make up the money needed for the crafted items.

[Ifervan]

The system is great but the investment reward is slightly off. New rooms need new gear but most people have full sets of other gears from greeds. Once the game is a little older things will balance out as material is siphoned out of the game. Time should fix this.

[Alhanelem]

Crafters are going to make a lot of money off housing.

[Sentinel]

OP is not 100% accurate in his assumptions. The current state is, majority of the money being made by crafting is either in between crafters or by selling to people who are either hardcore players (whose income comes from selling Titan runs) or from players who are obviously buying from RMTs. I have come across players willing to pay up to .85 mil for a piece of armor and they have no crafting/gathering classes and hardly know end game, so, one must wonder where all that gil is coming from.

Overall, the current state is quiet bad. It needs to improve and soon.

[CatholicFan]

Honestly, I'm not sure what the point of this thread is. The OP seems upset that the crafting sales primarily feed other crafters. Why is that bad? I make plenty of money selling to other crafters, and I'm not even a "max level" crafter yet. Once I am, I expect to be able to make plenty more gil selling to people that want ilvl 70 stuff.

Frankly, if you're dedicated and farm a few sets of philo items yourself, you're going to be making a whole mess of money just off the first few sales you have.

[Wolf_Gang]

2.1 is supposed to expand the crafting market.

From my understanding, all PVP gear have to be crafted as well as most of housing items.

[Sylve]

Currently max cap crafters make money by HQing items selling them to other crafters who leveking through triple leve quest, thats the main income for crafters, since most gear is gotten from dungs and currency buying crafted items is useless
My suggestion is let crafters make blue quality and epic items like rare items from odin or behemoth as rare mats

Am i the only one who facepalms when someone abbreviates 'Dungeon' to 'Dung'?