Forcing everyone to craft, Is it good direction for FFXIV?

[Shiyo]

I rarely need to repair my gear anymore, it takes weeks to actually lose dura on gear, even weapons. It's also very easy to get stuff repaired, I put something up for 1gil to get repaired in uldah by my friend and someone else did it for me, I didn't see who but that person was really nice ^-^

You don't have to level crafts anymore, this post would have been true in 2010 when weapon dura would die after like 30-45 mins of leveling. I don't think the OP actually plays the game anymore, they're consistently wrong and very low level

[Zezil]

Forcing everyone to craft... not problem but real problem is.. how to train you craft skill method... so bored when over 30... why SE not make it like fishing in FFXI that u must alway active and excite and when syn hard item that still can win with human skill -3- not bot pump craft skill like now... when i found someone craft... from 6.00 and when i back online when 20.00... that one still same place same angle

[Corrderio]

Nobody is forcing you to craft just like nobody is forcing you to level X class or whatever.

The reason for this "materia thing" is to help keep crafting alive, since back in XI within the first 2 years crafting just bombed.

[Evangela]

Nobody is forcing you to craft just like nobody is forcing you to level X class or whatever.

The reason for this "materia thing" is to help keep crafting alive, since back in XI within the first 2 years crafting just bombed.

then why don't they lift the minimum rank require to repair gears? if this rank require still be there it's mean "force to" anyway

[Sojiro]

then why don't they lift the minimum rank require to repair gears? if this rank require still be there it's mean "force to" anyway

You're not "forced to" because you have the option of getting the NPC to repair (although not full, which I think they should at least change that) or put up a repair flag and have someone repair.

Honestly after having the repair flags I rarely have things go unrepaired for longer than a day, don't forget you can put it on your retainer and throw it in the wards to get repaired too. So after a long night of partying/grinding, set up your retainer and log off.

Have you not logged on recently after the change to durability evangela? That made a VERY big difference with how often you need repairs, and I don't see hardly anyone complain about this much anymore.

[Chezen]

There's a lot of aspects of this game that forces you to be dependent on someone else in some way. I don't think that's a bad thing. For a community to survive, they have to work together.

In direct answer to your question, the game does not force you to craft. It just forces you to either do the job yourself, or depend on someone else, whether through friendship or payment for someone else's hard work (leveling). Yes, I do think this is a very good direction for FFXIV. Negative community is a big issue in mmos. Soloing should be possible, but not completely independant. It should be that you either depend on others to make it easier, or work a lot harder to make it solo. That's the way life really is, and it should help to keep the community more agreeable. I hope.

[Abriael]

This entire thread is a strawman argument. No one is forced to craft. Since the addition of the bazar repair icon it's extremely easy to find someone else to do repairs in a very short timeframe.

I definitely can't repair my gear at the moment, and I never once felt "forced" to craft more to be able to repair it myself. It's actually quicker to just slap it into the bazar than to change class/equipment to self-repair anyway.

The only thing that's "forced" is the interaction between crafters and non crafters. Which is a very good thing.

[Dreamer]

This entire thread is a strawman argument. No one is forced to craft.

I think you're vastly underestimating the sheer number of antisocial people in the game.

However, I do agree with Abriael's post.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

My philosophy isn't the cost of the mat it is I pay more for repairs for higher level gear and that makes the most sense to me. So what if the mat costs 1k gil to fix it may take a 38-40 Carpenter to fix it.

[Mitsuhide]

No its not good!

If it would actually really force you to do it...
Honestly, crafting is boring for me at the moment, its ok for me to do it once in a while but to craft the same Item 300 times for one lv is nothing for me.
But there a enough people who have fun with it and actually are doing the repairs and I think i give good Gil for it.
And Crafters are important, the NPC is not really an Option and i hope that it keeps that way.
And I never needed to wait more than an Hour.