Seller Names

[chocomaid]

I'm a devoted crafter and the past couple of months I've been noticing items (lots) with no seller names.

I know retainers can bring you back NQ/HQ stuff of certain said item but it's like 10-20 items at once, and varied items. Like just now, there is a ton of Electrum Head Knives, same seller, all HQ, no maker stamp. At some times it's housing items, sometimes, HQ weapons, sometimes HQ materials. I can understand the odd one or two but 10-20 or more is a bit suspicious.

Am I missing something here like the ability to not distribute my crafter name on an item I make or are these items getting made by dishonest means (duping?)

[Kaeda_Valentyne]

I have been noticing this as well.
What's weird is lets say there are three of the same item listed for sale and you scroll between them, two will not have crafter names and one will but the window for one of the ones with no crafter named is the same size as the one with the name.

I'm not sure I'm explaining this very well but it looks like the name was there but has been removed as there is extra space at the bottom of the window. I don't know if anyone else noticed that the popup window when buying items is usually two different sizes depending on if it was crafted or not.

[Madamepancake]

I think that's because some items can be crafted (and has the name) as well as obtained by other means such as dungeons and retainers and don't have the names. That's just what I think though, not 100% positive.

[Espritduo]

If there is a space where the name should be, then it was crafted by someone, but that person either left the server or they haven't been on in a while. I believe this happens a lot after maintenance, as I have noticed it seems to not register your name on crafter tags afterwards until you log in again.

If there is no space for a crafter name on the item, it was not crafted and was gotten by some other means. A lot of stuff can be bought through vendors that people like to sell at inflated prices in large quantities on the mb(like steel ingots, vitriol, etc), but if it's an HQ crafted item you're seeing massive quantities of with no place for a crafter name...something's fishy.

[chocomaid]

I believe this happens a lot after maintenance.

This may be it, but as you said, if it's a lot of HQ with no place for a crafter name, something might be going on. I'm gonna test this out next maintenance with a friend, gonna tell him to sell something before maintenance, then I'm gonna check after maint if his name disappears. If his name stays, there might be some duping going on :O

[chidarake]

pretty sure there is an option to hide crafter names. I don't use it but I'm fairly certain it was mentioned in some patch notes months ago.

after patch update today ill check the options menus for it.

[NationOfZealots]

Noticed this a lot too on MB. It punishes crafters even more because then yu are likely to get pseudo-harrassed since your name is on the item/s being sold. That's being a little panicky, but I don't understand why this wasn't made commensurate with FC crests being able to be applied to gear, please keep player anonymity a thing. Majority of players don't post screenshots without masking identities, and I think this falls in that category too.

[Eul]

How the hell you hide the crafter name on items we crafted? I don't even see any option to hide it. But I think those HQ items without name can obtained from retainer's quick exploration?

[Kinseykinz]

Well, I think it also might have something to do with 'cross-server' sales. IE someone buys a lot of stuff on their old server, and then sells it on their new server to 'launder' their gil basically. (since you can only take so much gil w/ you on a transfer). I *think* any items you carry over from the old server lose their crafter tags. Also, some items are drops (even HQ's) from leves etc. I don't pay too much attention to who crafted my purchases though so maybe I've just not noticed an influx of 'blanks'.

[Riepah]

Noticed this a lot too on MB. It punishes crafters even more because then yu are likely to get pseudo-harrassed since your name is on the item/s being sold. That's being a little panicky, but I don't understand why this wasn't made commensurate with FC crests being able to be applied to gear, please keep player anonymity a thing. Majority of players don't post screenshots without masking identities, and I think this falls in that category too.

Most games show your actual character name when you sell something in an auction house. If somebody harasses you, blacklist and report them - but I don't think anyone will do that.
Sometimes the names disappearing seems to be a bug of sorts. I have stuff in my retainer crafted by a friend of mine, and recently the name seemingly disappeared - but the next day, the name was there again.