Quote Originally Posted by Hanabira View Post
They gave out free t4 materia and made t3 and t4 much much easier to get, meaning the prices of them tanked. also they lowered the HQ rewards for repeatable leaves and greatly increased the drop rate of farmable crafting loot (skins, webs etc.) sure they added a static amount of gil from dungeons.. but they killed off several trade markets.

i just spent 250-300k leveling carpenter to 50 to get byregot's blessing to HQ gear to use for spirit bonding for materia to sell and i paid for it by farming mobs, now my farming source is gone, as well as the materia.
The sad thing is, now the beast tribes daily quests are dropping crafting items that will become cheaper than the Market prices. The high level maps are dropping HQ upper tier items (Twinthread HQ for example). So markets for everything are slowly going down. We're pretty much just better off grinding dungeons for gil, sell allagan pieces. I don't know why SE decided to give Materia away like this, it hurt the market greatly on Balmung but least Materia can blow up and be lost so people will need more down the road once this influx is gone. Which luckily enough people are enjoying PvP and the gear can be melded.