The Real Problem

[LongsunZhao]

Can you please stop nerfing everything for the newer players and making everything harder for the people who have strived for a loing time getting everything. All of my hard work leveling crafters to be able to make vanity for the world is what kept me going. Now retainers are giving them away, people don't have to work for nothing and it's destroying the game for people who used to craft this stuff. I can't do anything in the game at all now. I have no gil. Nothing to craft thats worthy and nothing to cap my red script with. All in all giving people the ability to get anything from ventures and getting the books easier, Means my only viable way of earning money now is a gillseller.

[Katlyna]

When it comes to the economy, I'm fairly sure SE is clueless. I don't think they have a single person really watching/analyzing the economy on their test team. Which begs the question how you can make changes to fix economic problems... if you don't understand the problem in the first place /sadpanda.

[LongsunZhao]

Yeah, I know it sounds bad, But I used to sell the level 50 augmented chest pieces. And now I'm lucky to get 50k for one when I used to get between 1,000,000 and 700,000k for the same item. I'm really not sure what to do now... I can't even use the crafts I've dedicated a lot of time to, to earn me my money.

[Mindy_Macready]

The real problem is the work to reward ratio for crafting was skewed completely too much in Heavensward, and they are showing no signs of making the ratio more tolerable.

[LongsunZhao]

For me it's a big problem in the game. People are coming into it, Getting everything easy, Leveling using fates and when they finally hit Heavensward, They don't have a clue what it takes to be good, because everythings been so easy. Not only this, It's like giant slap to everyone who has even bothered with the crafting. It was a way to use crafts and earn gil. But now it's just a big nerf for new players and a nightmare for the old people who used to craft this stuff. All these Masterbooks are pointless. Whats the point in crafting at all if ventures are going to completely overtake us...

[Hermaeus_mora1]

They should have gammon in the economy department

[Hanmerreborn]

Does this mean your other 50 threads were fake problems? I'm confused

[LongsunZhao]

Well after taking advice from other posts I made, such as people advising me to level them all and get the books. I did do this. For everything except Blacksmith who is still on level 54. I was making enough money to do scripts even though the content was boring and limited. Now its even worse. I can't play at all. I don't even have the gil to teleport and do Cacpot. Retainers are full and selling nothing of what used to be millions of gil worth of vanity, now worth far less then they cost to make. (Allagan Leather).

People spent a long time getting these books to be able to craft the level 50 stars, and it's just suddenly been removed. It's taken our job away from us to provide the community with vanity. And also made the impossible task of earning gil even harder, now we have 50 levels on 8 crafts which have nothing worth selling because retainers are supplying them!

[Jamillion]

Damn, and 99% of the time my retainer brings back fish, crappy housing items or some other random junk worth less than 100 gil

[LongsunZhao]

Moogle is absolutely full of star crafts being worth next to nothing because of fighting retainer ventures.