Community name "Gathering Fatigue"

[Anonymoose]

The main problem here is that gathering is no longer an activity, but a class of its own - which means it's not about the items as much as the SP to some people. Those affected of the latter group will be much more vocal, as the progress of their job is now impossible. Compared to other CLASSES, this is by no means fair - but compared to other ACTIVITIES, RMT countermeasures do need to exist. This is the balance issue that you're faced with as a result, Devs, as difficult as this one may be.

[LuxLex]

The main problem here is that gathering is no longer an activity, but a class of its own - which means it's not about the items as much as the SP to some people. Those affected of the latter group will be much more vocal, as the progress of their job is now impossible. Compared to other CLASSES, this is by no means fair - but compared to other ACTIVITIES, RMT countermeasures do need to exist. This is the balance issue that you're faced with as a result, Devs, as difficult as this one may be.

Yeah - it is incredibly unfair. If the devs want to restrict item gathering - they need to add other ways that we can level up as gathering classes. I've quit XIV - one of the reasons is when they changed fishing leves so they lasted way less time and gave way less exp. I really enjoyed fishing but having it be so much more difficult to level really took a lot of the fun out of it.