An Open Letter to Square EnixFollow

Well they were farmed pretty heavily especially Zitah and Buburimu.

I think the doom comes from the steady erosion of gil making options over time. In Spring the nerfed the Rolanberry Cargo quest for gil. In Fall they nerfed the Mistletoe farming. Now they nerf Bloods, bugards, Demons. These were all pretty active and competitive farming sites for legitimate players.

Where are they all going to go? A lot of the consumable crafting is so cutthroat that only the 100+ crafters can make a decent profit. Gardening requires daily visits which is not possible for a lot of casual players with other daily committments. HELM and Choco digging are options but will become competitive too if everyone goes there and drives prices down.

I'm not saying this nerf is the end all of nerfs. It's just an ongoing saga of SE attacking its playing population without justification or alternatives. Personally it does push me closer to quitting the game (but I'm not there yet).

Not everyone likes to play bst, just like everyone chooses to be what they want, not what someone wants them to be.

Them changing stuff because of RMT counter measures is making me lose intrest in the game, back then it was really fun to hunt some of these NM's, least I had some time to do something other than Level up all the time.

It seems when I find something fun to do, it is removed because of RMT, yet I am a big fan of Square-enix, this is a game to have fun in and shouldnt be a struggle to do something, I raise my cup to some of the stuff they have did, though I wish they could cut us a break when it comes to stopping RMT.

All I can say is what are they gonna ***** up next?

I don't know if this was because of RMTs or not. Do you know? Does anyone know? That's the thing, SE never tells us why they do it exactly. :\

RMTs have been farming a lot of these items, because yes it is a good idea to sell, and possibly a secretive way also since your name wont be shown on AH or anything. Personally I found it to be the second best way to farm, myself, and since the big deflation a lot of my friends have been farming this way also.

It also reminds me of the RMT nerfs of the past though too, such as the Rolanberry quest which was at one point the way I use to farm. >_< It's just really frustrating to have your source of money taken away, you know? So I can feel other's sympathy to this subject.

I play in GMT, and even the endgame shells I was in barely made 20 members on event nights. In most socials I have been in there are around 30 members across all time zones, of which maybe quarter have any endgame experience at all. As such very few people are willing to stump up the gil for Dynamis runs, or use up 99 seals, for what is more than likely going to be a catastrophic failure.

It is difficult to attract any players with experience to a social or inexperienced ls, generally they are in shells with longtime friends, and the ls has evolved from one pearl holder to the next over the years, with more or less the same members, save those that left or started their own ls.

Yeah, 30 is a busy night for us as well; we're used to 24 for Jailor of Love fights, max.

Whoever suggested that RMT are spamming BCNMs and KS99s though really ought to consider how difficult is is to acquire the needed number of beastman seals for that kind of investment. No, they are much moer likely to level a party of black mages and a bard to 75, and spam the avatars by pos-hacking. It can be done indefinitely; they don't have to stop and farm for seals in between rounds.

this maybe a stupid comment, but why not make it that when you sell something to a vendor it becomes an item the vendor can sell. Also like an active inventory.

so you have the smithing guy, he runs out of iron ores, some guy has a day of farming and sells them to the npc and it restocks him.

would kind of solve a problem when deflation gets so low that every just npcs things then you would have to farm your own crysters per say if you wanted some.

only thing is maybe you would have to group some npcs inventories together, like they were a mini mart chain.

I understand, in a perverse way, Zi'tah and Bubu, there were always people there (on Odin) and you had to be on your toes to get your money's worth, but Castle Baileys confuses me. On Odin it could only support two farmers making about 40-50k an hour (if anyone says they were making more, then they simply got lucky on drops or are flat out lying). You could usually find one person there, on occasion there were a couple people there. What kills me though is how much the nerfed the weapon prices, they were lowered to something like 3% of what they used to go for. The bloods didn't get nerfed like that, so what was the logic in the Castle? Some people in my LS claimed it was because RMT were abusing the coffers, but to be honest I could almost always find the coffer if I was looking for it, so I don't buy it.

Castle Baileys was a great way to make money AND, more importantly, allow me to level my NPC while I farmed. I'm gonna finish a stack of demon horns, open one last coffer and probably never go back, the update was a sad day for a zone I had become accustomed to. Oh, and I see Manitcore Hair has seen a dramatic jump in availability as well as price deflation on Odin, can't imagine why >.<

I don't know how I managed to do it but I hit 75 in 3 jobs, spent millions on spells and bullets, got good purchasable gear, took clothcraft to 88, dropped about 2 million on a friends gear and spells and I did it all without the help of BCNMS and end game activities..

Oh.. And I never once have farmed objects to be sold for gil to NPCs.

So you put every last one of your drops up on the AH? How'd it go selling those colibri beaks and feathers?

To the OP: Good job and well written, my sentiments exactly.

Leech Saliva was my bread and butter, but now my profits have been halved, thanks SE, thanks allot.

I have recently obtained the relic weapon I want to uprade, but am having trouble trying to figure out how I will ever get the currency needed to do it.

People are bazaaring the M. Silverpieces for an average of 1.2 million, are you kidding me? That's insane! The O. Bronzepieces drop like it's cool on Dynamis runs, so why do they cost 12k each and a hundred of the equals one M.Silverpiece which is... 1.2 million?

With these prices it will cost me about... $214,800,000 gil.

WTF!? Are you serious? Where's the logic in taking away our legitimate money making methods if you let this kind of highway robbery go on all around you?

I can continue to grumble, but I hope you see my point.

Why do people keep bringing this up? From what I remember of things at that time this was in fact one of the better patches they implemented into the game. That NM was almost as bad of a MPK breeding ground as DA was pre-bst patch. Seems there are still some people out there crying because they're "accomplishment" was some how diminished by making this weapon more available to everyone.