Looking for a response to Fine Sand and cluster/crystal to shard revamps

[YukiKoneko]

Several ALC players and myself have been asking for any kind of input on the use of Fine Sand and the future usefulness of clusters, especially converting them and crystals down into far more useful shards. I won't retype everything from those discussions here, but I'm afraid the devs and community reps do not read anything but this sub-forum... so yea. If you could then, please respond either to:

• Fine sand?
• Clusters, Crystals, and Shard conversions.

Thanks.

[Enma]

I'm interested too!

[YukiKoneko]

{/poke} Rukkirii. I see you on the forums, show us ALC's some responsive lov'n!

[Jinko]

{/poke} Rukkirii. I see you on the forums, show us ALC's some responsive lov'n!

Don't confront them they run away when you do that

[YukiKoneko]

I am curious if they removed this to try and curb the RMT/bot issues.

I agree on that, but to then have reps actually recommend we go exchange our outdated guild marks for clusters made no sense. Numerous people called this out, but the rep never revised the statement. Besides, the change they made in 1.21 where synthesis is interrupted after ~50 repeated synths curbs botting to some degree, almost as much as the overall changes to crafting itself.

Just a small note:

Yea, I know; however, if you check those threads, you'll see the issues in them date back to 1.19. Questions were raised even then, but the reps never listened. Besides, no harm in pointing out forgotten issues.

[Answa]

Yea, I know; however, if you check those threads, you'll see the issues in them date back to 1.19. Questions were raised even then, but the reps never listened. Besides, no harm in pointing out forgotten issues.

Their work motto doesn't change from patch to patch.

[YukiKoneko]

Back when they weren't charging us, I would be content with that. I know they have a lot of things to do and directly responding to their customers is probably the last thing they want to spend much time on, but they need to know that NA players are just as important as their native Japanese players, and given all the build-up to the revamps to GSM, ALC, and CUL recipes, they should have addressed this long-standing issue. They did not, and that's why I am pushing hard to get a direct response to something that was left out of the changes.

You will recall that Fine Sand actually involves all three crafting classes affected the most by 1.21. It wasn't among the list of items to be removed either in 1.19, or in 1.21. Yet it was mysteriously removed from the ALC guild vender (the only place to buy it, and not at a super cheap price mind you - was somewhere around 1000 gil a pinch). More troubling is that while the recipes to producing fine sand continue to exist, only those recipes that involve breaking down crystals into shards were classified as dated. 1.21 was supposed to finally fill in these gaps, since they have continually threatened to remove all dated recipes at some unknown time.

So there are several issues here. The community reps could have joined the discussion at any point back after 1.19 and they chose not to. Now I'm calling them, and the developers out. We just want answers, we just want to know they haven't overlooked this, and we just want to have some idea of what they plan to do going forward.

Thanks to everyone for keeping this thread alive and viewed, and hopefully the devs and reps will take notice next week after they implement 1.21b.

[YukiKoneko]

Sigh... no response... and Monday is patch day so Rukkirii and Co. probably have the day off. Tuesday you'll respond, won't you?

[Yves]

I am curious if they removed this to try and curb the RMT/bot issues.

[Sephrick]

I'm also very interested to see a response on this.