Message from actual new player

[Blarp]

Yes I'm wrong, crafting is imaginary content and not in any way intended to be used... Just like 90% of the population who dose not use stocks outside of their retirement that bitch and moan about being poor. The people of these forums bitch and moan about gear and money yet refuse to use the given mechanics to solve said problem.

People are getting so ignorant/lazy and posting without a care or thought in the world, it is getting down right embarrassing.

If they don't enjoy participating in that form of content, you telling them they're lazy isn't really a good argument. I never crafted a single thing in XI because I couldn't stand it. I felt like I had to do some type of ritualistic dance every time I synth'd because the direction you face and the moon and the color of your pants and ughh, I hated it. But in a game like FFXI you could get by without crafting fairly easily because the market was always saturated with gear of all levels. I hope that's what happens here, but it seems the crafters have no desire to synth the low level gear. I guess time will tell.

[SodaPop]

If they don't enjoy participating in that form of content, you telling them they're lazy isn't really a good argument. I never crafted a single thing in XI because I couldn't stand it. I felt like I had to do some type of ritualistic dance every time I synth'd because the direction you face and the moon and the color of your pants and ughh, I hated it. But in a game like FFXI you could get by without crafting fairly easily because the market was always saturated with gear of all levels. I hope that's what happens here, but it seems the crafters have no desire to synth the low level gear. I guess time will tell.

Buying into completely unverified paranoid conspiracy theories about direction influencing synth success is kind of your own problem, not the game having an issue.

[Blarp]

Buying into completely unverified paranoid conspiracy theories about direction influencing synth success is kind of your own problem, not the game having an issue.

When you risk blowing up several million gil worth of materials, you'll believe in anything that people claim helps. That wasn't the point of my post anyways.

[SodaPop]

When you risk blowing up several million gil worth of materials, you'll believe in anything that people claim helps. That wasn't the point of my post anyways.

Just trying to say that's kind of the same thing as bitching about things that only you can fix, essentially what you were saying the forums as a whole need to stop doing.

[PaynesGrey]

but it seems the crafters have no desire to synth the low level gear. I guess time will tell.

Weirdly enough I synthed several low level weapons for different classes yesterday, but none of them has sold in the past 24 hours. Prices are somewhere between 10 and 20k, depending on the weapon and it's level. They were the cheapest on the market when I put them up, not sure if they've been heavily undercutted by now though.

So either new players don't know how to actually use the market wards or they're expecting me to hand them out free. Of course 10-20k gil might seem like a lot, but my charater is quite new as well, and I had to buy shit like low level shield, which was 40k at the time and other similar stuff and it wasn't really a problem.

Sadly it's no real use to sell stuff for 5k or under, because even 10k feels like it's really nothing at all with the current economy. But yeah, what comes to the desire to make lower level gear, at least I like making some, but pricing seems to be an issue.

[Blarp]

Just trying to say that's kind of the same thing as bitching about things that only you can fix, essentially what you were saying the forums as a whole need to stop doing.

Just ignore that sentence then. I wasn't bitching about it. I was poking fun at it.

[Vahzl]

What i see on WoW most is Elitist complaining it ain't hard enough and wanting more content yesterday...

The irony on this post critted me for 9001

[Naqaj]

So either new players don't know how to actually use the market wards or they're expecting me to hand them out free. Of course 10-20k gil might seem like a lot, but my charater is quite new as well, and I had to buy shit like low level shield, which was 40k at the time and other similar stuff and it wasn't really a problem.

Sadly it's no real use to sell stuff for 5k or under, because even 10k feels like it's really nothing at all with the current economy. But yeah, what comes to the desire to make lower level gear, at least I like making some, but pricing seems to be an issue.

This might be a problem with people being unfamiliar with currency in FF games.
10.000 gil may seem like a very expensive price to someone who has only played RPGs where starter items tend to cost a few copper. A perception issue, if you will.

[Sontawila]

I played since beta and I can honestly say, this patch is not fun AT ALL. Why? I'm a casual gamer, i.e. have other things to do better than wasting 2~3 hours of my schedule shouting or asking people to PT.

I enjoyed the solo aspect of FFXIV and now 1.19 killed it.

[Bled]

If they don't enjoy participating in that form of content, you telling them they're lazy isn't really a good argument. I never crafted a single thing in XI because I couldn't stand it. I felt like I had to do some type of ritualistic dance every time I synth'd because the direction you face and the moon and the color of your pants and ughh, I hated it. But in a game like FFXI you could get by without crafting fairly easily because the market was always saturated with gear of all levels. I hope that's what happens here, but it seems the crafters have no desire to synth the low level gear. I guess time will tell.

No I'm telling them there lazy if they are QQing about gear and money problems but refuse to look for ways to optimize and solve those solutions; fits the definition of lazy to the T. I do agree that a majority of these problems are cause by an unstable game economy atm.