Quote Originally Posted by NeoAmon View Post
No.
I have not seen that thread, nor have I seen the opinions of every single other crafter in the game first-hand.

My problem isn't that crafting isn't super-OP. My problem, as I keep stating, is that crafting endgame gear is completely pointless because nobody buys it, and the game makes absolutely no attempts to encourage players to use crafted gear because the dropped/bought gear is objectively better at every stage.

Want me to help out by making good gear better? Give me a materia system that doesn't completely cripple my ability to make gear, any combat gear, significantly better. Nope, we need to stat-block all the crafted gear so it can't outshine all our raid gear.

I also find it quite personally offensive that your counter-argument to this point revolves so heavily around just whitewashing myself and everyone who wants to craft as "those greedy awful people who ruin the game". Would I appreciate some ability to actually make money? Yes. I do my crafting primarily because I just plain enjoy helping other people in this way, whether they're FC or not. I like doing it. I enjoy crafting and making people things, regardless of making money. As is, even the people I know and play with don't need my help post-level-50 because they have better gear to buy with tomes and grind out of endgame dungeons. I'm all for more craftables that don't involve grinding endgame dungeons or doing raids too. I can't wait to actually buy a house just so I can craft a ton of furniture nobody but me is going to use. But, as it stands, crafting just doesn't have any involvement in the endgame environment at all, and there's a serious lack of other post-50 content in the game that crafting can take advantage of.