Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

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Because your simple point isn't a point at all.

You're trying to make a direct correlation between what you call a "meaningless" economy and "having less to do". But, like I pointed out already, FFXI had what you wanted yet it also had players sitting on mountains of gil without anything to spend it on too.

If the game had crafted i110 gear, AND the materials weren't hidden behind lockouts, you'd have the exact same problem after you crafted all your stuff. But even FFXI had pretty severe lockouts for materials (way worse than the lockouts we currently have on obtaining gear).

I'm all for making crafting have a bigger role in endgame, which is why I believe that the best gear should have an endgame drop component and a crafting component. But your argument that forcing players to only have one crafting class leveled would lead to "having more stuff to do" is simply ridiculous.

I don't understand why you keep referring to FFxi; it was also eventually ruined by RMT too, but anyway. The idea of only one craft maxed would be similar to desynth, you could be jack of many or ace of a few. The reason this would lead to more to do, is because your particular services could be called upon by FC mates or just random people. You could actually have a service that someone needs you for. FC mates would have their own specialty and as a community you guys would have ability to make everything. At the same time this would allowcpeople to feel as though their work on a craft served more then selfish purposes.

The funny part is, in reality I don't want crafting to actually have any usefulness at all. That allows RMT to thrive and players can then pay to win. My original point was that (in a perfect scenario) if crafting was able to be more useful, we would spend more time doing it. Simple and true.