Crafting is fun!

[Gilthas]

Crafting and Gathering used to be fun. Now it's just an idiotic grind.

And people aren't upset that crafting is difficult (because it isn't), they're upset because it became even more time-consuming than before. I was already unhappy with DoL/DoHs before Heavensward, and the expansion just made everything much worse. It's the main reason why I've barely logged in the past month. The effort required to do something as simple as GC daily turn-ins was multiplied by a factor of 3 or more for no good reason.

Gathering and Crafting should be a fun and relaxing side-activity to gear up your battle classes. Instead it became a full-time job focused on making gil on the MB. I already have a job in real life, when I log into FFXIV I want to have fun.

[Silverbane]

Gathering and Crafting should be a fun and relaxing side-activity to gear up your battle classes.

That's your opinion and that's fine.

But for other people, battle classes are just a fun and relaxing side activity for generating ventures and GC seals that are used to obtain materials for crafting. And gathering, especially fishing, is it's own thing and enjoyable for it's own reasons.

I'm enjoying it all. I get a ton of good entertainment out of my monthly subscription fee, it's a great value.