Sassee: Do you plan on removing furniture merchants so that crafted furniture becomes wanted by the player base, similar to how you fixed provisioner foods and drinks that merchants sold at less then the cost to make? Presently better furniture is sold on merchants that players cannot make, and sold for a lower cost.

Steve "Moorgard" Danuser: In the case of provisioners, we didn't remove store-bought food from NPC merchants; we made crafted food better. Similarly, crafted furniture has advantages over furniture bought in the stores.

While there is some duplication in appearances between crafted and store-bought furniture, there are hundreds of furniture appearances that are unique to artisans. Some of the coolest furniture simply hasn't been made yet, perhaps because it requires very rare components to do so. High-level furniture made with rare components will provide a status symbol that can definitely earn admiration for the owner.