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Crafting will lead the game far too close to an RPG of some sort. There's a line where it has to stop. Crafting is a good place for it. Simply said, crafting generally means PvE of some sort. Now, if crafting depended entirely on breaking down enemy tech, and using whatever you gain from actually killing other people, then it'd be great. However, any crafting that leads to more PvE... even crafting that leads to a bunch of goons running around a battlefield with no more purpose than to loot some corpses, needs to be stopped before the game ever opens. If you want to PvE and craft like a little carebear, go play WoW, or EQ2. There's tons of garbage for you to craft. Otherwise, shoot and kill people. That's what an FPS is for.

Edit: Any sort of loot system would be far worse, however. I'd much rather have crafting of some sort than having to go kill Super Mob of Death for Roflcannon +2. Seriously, if there is any system of loot in this game that will make PvE whores have any sort of weapon advantage, it'll turn into every other crappy MMO out there.