Crafting in this game is infuriating

[TurtlesAWD]

The trick is when it encourages you to invest time and money into it when it knows full well it's going to roadblock you with zero guidance tens of levels later, failing to explain any of what you actually need to know within either the in-game tutorials or the quests provided - those quests being a part of the pyramid-scheme structure where each deceived crafter, after wasting their time and money, needs to justify it to themselves and thus resells items for those quests to other wannabe crafters - just as victims of a pyramid scheme must perpetuate it by finding new victims to recoup their own losses.

[HyoMinPark]

The trick is when it encourages you to invest time and money into it when it knows full well it's going to roadblock you with zero guidance tens of levels later, failing to explain any of what you actually need to know within either the in-game tutorials or the quests provided - those quests being a part of the pyramid-scheme structure where each deceived crafter, after wasting their time and money, needs to justify it to themselves and thus resells items for those quests to other wannabe crafters - just as victims of a pyramid scheme must perpetuate it by finding new victims to recoup their own losses.

Sorry, I disagree. I fail to see how any of this defines crafting as a pyramid scheme. As I said prior, in any business endeavor made in real life, one has to invest first and hope to turn profits later. That’s just simple business 101. If you are wanting to craft for profit (i.e., make a business out of it), you’re going to have to invest time and gil into it first to get it off the ground. Even so, you can still be self-sufficient if you take the time to level gatherers, and utilize your retainers when it comes to fetching you materials (seriously, the battle class retainers are really useful for this). It seems more like you don’t really want to do that, and would rather everything be instant gratification. That’s not how this works, unfortunately, so perhaps crafting isn’t for you. And that’s fine.


This game doesn’t do any sort of explaining for any of the jobs outside of reading your tooltips and attempting to piece together the information manually—which is a flaw, I will grant you that; but you can simply just ask you friends that may craft, or go online and research/ask questions. There are plenty of omnicrafters on this forum and the FFXIV subreddit who would give you the answers you seek if you just ask for them.