From the Desk of the Community Team (10/06/09)

[Dooom]

Yeah rejuvenation of the crafting and BCNM markets really blows

While it helped boost some items, notably BCNM drops like Warwolf belts, the effect it's had on crafting hasn't been too noticable to me. Some bonecraft synths - like weskits and dragon harness - initially became profitable again, but are now a worse loss than they were pre-augments. Maybe I'm just on the wrong server/market.

[Gergall]

While it helped boost some items, notably BCNM drops like Warwolf belts, the effect it's had on crafting hasn't been too noticable to me. Some bonecraft synths - like weskits and dragon harness - initially became profitable again, but are now a worse loss than they were pre-augments. Maybe I'm just on the wrong server/market.

Yeah this is more of a boost to raw material farming than it is to crafting. Sitting at the AH and crafting NQ gear is never going to be super-profitable. Competition and people looking for skillups will make sure of that.

However, the price of synth materials has definitely gone up, helping out the people who gather and sell these items.

[Dooom]

Sitting at the AH and crafting NQ gear is never going to be super-profitable.

I'd be happy if tier0 NQs made only a small profit, or hell, if they only broke even. But when people are selling tier0 NQs at loss post-augments (last I checked, I'd lose 15k per weskit, 30k+ per dragon harness, to stick with my two previous examples) and then non-crafters say "oh, augments made crafting profitable again"... no. I'm not stupid, I don't expect NQs to be profitable when it's tier1 or something, but when things are worse now on tier0 NQs than they were before, it's just sad.

edit - again, talking about Failfor bonecraft here, ymmv depending on server/craft. We seem very top-heavy on bonecrafters who aren't worried about taking hard losses, idk about other servers.

[Yugl]

I have an idea!

USE A CAMERA!

Edit: B and W of course!

[spooky]

Pretty sure SE, we don't want more content to spam over and over for a shitty chance at a shitty reward. Try harder.

[Hobbes]

FINAL FANTASY XI Newsletter Issue 34
No 3rd party tools necessary. Dont even need the damn game.

[Gergall]

wut

[Mayareira]

Even GM's don't oppose FRAPS. I've told them twice(or maybe more) before that I run it in the background(it was a call regarding that Logitech black screen bug). They didn't care, just told me to turn off virus scan, download managers etc. as they may interfere with the system.

My FRAPS is always on(launches on startup), just like my virus scan and other stuff and I'm pretty sure that its the case for everyone else. Its not a cheat and its entirely possible to "forget" it open.

They really don't care, just fraps it.

[tonystigma]

Square has basically never excelled at PC development. FF7 was a terrible port, FF8 was even worse, and they cancelled FF9 before it was released, presumably because they were having performance issues with it.

It's a small wonder the game even supports the PC. I expect it's because they didn't want all their eggs in one basket with the PS2 HDD (a wise choice at the time).

They didnt handle the PC ports btw.

7 and 8 were done by Eidos, IIRC.

[Kaylia]

Yeah rejuvenation of the crafting and BCNM markets really blows, hold on gotta stroke my forum buddies off over why I quit the game because of content that I don't use which doesn't actually affect me and then have a dumb semantics argument over what constitutes a third party program

Sound like SE touched you somewhere, and you liked it. Good for you, I felt violated.


I'm not sure why you're taking their defense. They are giving us horrible content for the price tag.

[Dooom]

7 and 8 were done by Eidos, IIRC.

Didn't SE buy out Eidos recently, or am I thinking of something completely different?