Quote Originally Posted by Conundrum View Post
It's basically crafter welfare. Most MMO try some form of it, to force people to be customers to the crafters. It's one of the things I really dislike about FFXIV is it makes crafters mega-rich compared to everyone else.
It does the exact opposite. It makes no one "rich" compared to anyone, except bots.

There isn't even that much point in being a crafter tbh. If you want the latest battle set or a stack of food, just run maps for an hour or two, or run a Hunt train or two and sell the materia + tome mats, and you can literally buy a full 580 set. Or just keep a single crafter at 80 and do Custom deliveries and turn the scrips into materia to sell. Or keep a single DoL and gather 1 map a day and sell it and it'll add up for you.

Why go to the effort of leveling 8 classes to 90, obtaining all the master books, researching your macro's and pentamelding when all it gives you access to is cheap rubbish anyone can farm easily?

Because of players like yourself who despised the fact that people could put in time and effort and be rewarded, FF14 killed crafters. You got what you wanted and predictably, you're still not happy. That's what happens when you spoil people.