Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Games 7-8 years older have sported more innovative systems.
What games and what made their crafting systems so interesting/innovative compared to what we have in FFXIV?

Quote Originally Posted by Nandrolone View Post
So that justifies over simplifying it to WoW’s extent?
It's not even close to being as simple as WoW's crafting system. Crafting in WoW was get mats, press a button, done. You could do it completely naked. Blizzard made it harder to get recipes than to do the actual crafting (frequently you had to be a raider on top of being a crafter).