The crafting grind

[Gilthas]

They had to give crafting and gathering an endgame to work towards. Otherwise, those who only focus on crafting/gathering would have no long term goal and no longer will keep playing the game.

The problem with this logic is that if you make everything grindy to keep the players that only want to do one thing, you end up losing the players that want to do multiple kinds of content.

FFXIV was a lot more fun for me before they added all this grind crap to DoL and DoH.