Square Enix, please think about both Casual AND Hardcore crafters..

[DrWho2010]

you can't win in this situation. you reveal too early ppl are disappointed. you withhold information, ppl are disappointed.

[CookiesNCreams]

you can't win in this situation. you reveal too early ppl are disappointed. you withhold information, ppl are disappointed.

Except hard difficulty recipes have been wanted from competitive and/or serious crafters since 4.0. That’s 2+ years of no actual endgame content. So, in this situation, it’s actually better to say what’s going on. And I’m glad Yoshida basically confirmed that we will basically start seeing these difficult recipes Patch 5.2 and onwards.

He also indirectly confirmed that “difficult recipes” only apply to Ishgard Restoration only, so it’s probably very unlikely that these recipes apply to actual endgame crafting..only Ishgard. I’m still happy regardless. I’m like, super happy. My only concern is this:

The high difficulty recipe’s REWARDS. Will they be worth it? Or no? Cause, if the rewards aren’t at the very least, some super lewd bikini glam....no hardcore or competitive crafter will do it. I mean, I’m not going to compete on the leaderboards for some lame Title or shiny golden glamour Carpenter tool. Just being honest...

[frostmagemari]

you can't win in this situation. you reveal too early ppl are disappointed. you withhold information, ppl are disappointed.

You realize what you're saying right?
You don't want them to reveal things because people may be disappointed.. well, how do you think people will feel about the system when it's dropped on them and they're disappointed? People aren't going to magically love it just because you didn't tell them anything for the last six months and only teased them on with a tagline (If they're disappointed by the concept and explanations, they're sure as heck gonna be disappointed in the release).

Rather than possibly being able to act on the disappointment of the gaming community, you instead lock everyone into having a possibly broken and/or just unenjoyable system dropped into their lap; But hey, at least they didn't disappoint us with their ideas before the release, that's something, right?