Quote Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang View Post
Most crafters in one of my crafting linkshells have decided to plainly stop their progression. Nothing to strive for on this patch, red scrip gear is not worth it. Not worth the cheapest turn in or the deepest gil sink in materials for the crafted version.

If 30ish crafters on a server can be of any measure, thank you square enix, you made lots of people to just "quit" at their favorite activity on the game. Grind and time sinks can only be pushed so far before players which even love said activity start to abandon it.
...or quit the game entirely. I did.