Originally Posted by
Economizer
The "ideal" way for it to work is that people farm the meat for the crafters, who in turn craft it and sell it to the Beastmasters in a steady and reliable stream on the AH, not a one man show. That might not be entirely possible going forward, so having an NPC sell them is entirely sensible, and even undercutting current prices by a certain amount is entirely reasonable too.
But this will have effects on whomever is farming the meat and puk eggs, and probably more than whomever is crafting them. I could lament about crafting, but I would have to first lament about all the random items FFXI gives you becoming less and less valuable over time as well, in a ongoing sort of deflation. Personally I mostly blame the auction house system and its low sale time and low slot count cutting the direction the game is going much deeper, but the causes are numerous.