Even if they removed red scrip caps, crafting would still be dead.

[Yeldir]

Crafting to aid progression was murdered by design. SE has even said as much.

Good luck selling those i180's to battle classes. I'm sure they'll totally pay you gil proportionate to the amount of effort you spent to produce red crafter scrip materials and aetherborne sands. Also favor items from red gathering scripts! You're using gatherer red scripts too. Yikes!

No one is going to want your i180 crap that takes pentamelded Materia V's (which don't exist) to get good, when Alexander Normal throws up i190 gear into the open mouths of the many hungry baby birdies who just hit 60 5 days ago.

"But it can help them skip the law phase of gearing!!" You think to yourself, desperately. Then you remember that the "law phase" takes all of those five days I mentioned before. Then you remember the gear takes red crafter scrips to assemble. Then you remember the aetherborne sands, and that's when you really begin to feel sick. Then you notice the gatherer red script items you need, and you quickly destroy your keyboard/controller with streams of tears and vomit.

Are you a Goldsmith? Oh. Ohhhh. I'm so sorry. I hope you sold lots of platinum jewelry before 3.0 came out, because that's the last fortune you're going to make.

The New Craft has one market: other crafters/gathers. Crafters crafting things for other crafters so they can make those really tricky crafts for... For who? Nobody. It's a dead end - a money hole. The gil you're spending on materials and melds now is never coming back.

...

Well, airships and housing are pretty neat. Not like you're allowed to have them, of course.

Wait!!! ... I see it!



My god! It's full of gils!