Woah, is this thread where all the trolls hang out or something? Where to begin with this drivel.
Clearly not one of you read the post you're responding to. No sane person is going to turn their +3 bow into materia. You might prefer to convert a 30mil bow over a 50k NQ but that's up to you, it's not something that should be encouraged and most people will agree with that. A game shouldn't encourage you to spend more time using sub-optimal equip than you spend using your best.
Presumably you get better materia by converting higher ranked gear. So are you suggesting people should wear that rank 50 gear from rank 1 just so they can convert it to materia as they rank up? We should be discouraging the use of over ranked gear, not encouraging it.
All it encourages is yet more botting. Do you really think people are going to sit and hardcore grind gear into materia? Hell no, they're going to set their bots to attack mobs all night while they sleep and wake up with a full set of materia. Players don't like hardcore grinding, that's evident from the number of people that quit with the complaint of levelling being too slow, the number of people botting crafts to 50, the number of people who cancel leves, the number of people who demand more SP from gathering nodes. I repeat; people do not like hardcore grinding. Let's leave that out of the game, it's a relic from the past.
Which is exactly what I said.
The logic of "If you don't like the content, don't do it" has gotten this game quite far since September hasn't it? I mean, the playerbase is just huge right now, filled with millions of people who just LOVE the content that exists.
No, we don't want a hardcore grindfest. Neither do you by the looks of your sig and that rank 31 being your highest class. If you loved grinding as much as you make out surely you'd have at least one class over 40 by now, if not capped. 1-31 takes about two days.