@ dark crafters are not basing prices due to mat pricing. But based on time spent leveling. If a person say gives the crafter all materials for 4-5 tries on making a tool or weapon, where is the fee coming from? You using materials from someone else. But crafter still wants to make a profit and uses the "i spent millions of gil , and months leveling this craft" excuse. Which was funny that no one used that in ffxi, yet never asked for a gil if given the mats and crystal. So like I asked what changed?
I'm asking considering crafting in ffxi too more money and took longer to do. And if crafters didn't want to spend tons of money buying mats they coulda easily hunted there own.

Honestly I found a level 16 item that cost 80K last night. It wasn't anything special.... I've seen in ffxi mats costing 100gil-5K gil for a stack or even singles. Going as high as 10K. Yet no real crafted item in ffxi for low levels was over 30K. Even the basic elemental staves were only 100K ish but those were in demand.