How many of us can be bothered with the endgame crafting

[Ranzan]

No offense but offending...

But that the thing they haven't fix anything or they haven't explained why they made this asinine system. If it was fixable why not fix it? This was some people main reason playing on this game and now lock to and system that dont make much since other than to keep you sub. It should not take me 11+ hours to GATHER mats just to make 1 piece of gear that may or may not HQ that only take 10 minutes tops to craft. Why should give it time if 1 maintenance is all they need to fix or remove this system?

[JoolzS]

Crafting and gathering was fun for me in 2.x (even the grind to get the Lucis and Masterbooks), but in 3.x it is zero fun. My sub runs out in September and I've cancelled the auto-renew on it. I don't raid, don't even like dungeons much, so the game for me was the crafting and gathering which they seem to want to kill off. Makes me sad, but on a positive note, since HW dropped my flat is tidier than it's been in two years!

I'm going to miss the lovely friends Ive made in the game as I am unlikely to keep in touch with any of them outside of the game. I'm older than most of them by *decades* so the main thing I have in common with them is the game.

I might resub in a patch or two, if there are some major changes.

[reefer69]

I am not good with raiding and my desire to make statics over and over was never present so i divulged into crafting. To be able to craft i had to mine and garden to keep my gil supply up to lvl all my crafts. after i found a new step which was using my time to craft and now buy mats off the market board to keep the flow of gil in the economy flowing and my crafts profitable because trying to do both crafting and mining is a huge task even before expansion.
I like many went of us who went into the task of multi-melding individual pieces, then artisan came and we had to remeld again. all this time ppl want you to craft for them and pay next to nothing and also asking y do u need all that gil. its funny ppl dont think u can look at history of items and see they spent 500k for items for you to craft yet scoff when u say 100k for the craft. my point here is crafting is not cheap and ppl who gather also request gil for their time and mats just like us.