Quote Originally Posted by Versiroth View Post
Having to work for a Relic + 1 is completely different than having to pay hundreds of thousands of gil for 3-5 pieces of Materia to fill out every slot in every piece of armor you have. Also, Community =/= you making tons of gil off other players. The fact is, making top level gear would ruin the game. You could RMT your way to the top without working for it at all (and people WOULD do this). Also, adding Materia or other systems like Materia to end game would do nothing but cause more people to be excluded from content. And like with top level crafted gear, it would also help RMT to thrive even more as people would just pay real money to avoid the then mandatory gil grind.
I could RMT my way to get a lot of gil and then spend that gil on a merc FC to carry me through end game. Result: I still paid my way to the top.

People aren't even asking to make top end stuff, they just want the stuff they can make to actual matter and be relevant.