Today i throw away all the atma

[Waeksyn]

He made the decision to get ATMA and he made the decision to throw them away. SE has already come out and stated that ATMA is just one of many paths... so, he did what SE offered; to do something else. This isn't so much a protest as it is complying with the structure of the game and what it has to offer. On the note of materia, people can spiritbond and make their own materia. Or run dungeon dailies and meet the adventurer in need requirements to roll in gil. Anyone stupid enough to buy from a gil seller to get materia deserves the ban they get.

This isn't a protest. If you want to know what an actual protest is, look up information regarding the year 1969

I'm well aware that you can SB to get materia. I've been doing that for a long time to get all of the TIII crafting materia I need to update my 8 DoH off hand tools to meet the new requirements of 3 star crafting. Tier IV materia runs about 5% or so and, of course, is random with regard to what you actually get. For crafting materia, it's not that bad because the gear converts to only 1 of 3 materia options. With regular gear, conversion is random over many more options, including all of the (useless) elementals. So, very few of the unwanted TIV that you get will be sellable for any significant amount of gil which could be used to buy the ones that you do need. I'll probably continue SB'ing crafting materia and selling those then buying the ones that I need.

The point is, the extreme grind, the extreme amount of gil will push many to purchase gil, despite all of the holier than thou indignation some players have regarding those who do so. This will incent more gil selling activity.

More gill seller activity, more gill seller /tells, .... "Please look forward to it".

[Youmadesca]

the extreme amount of gil

Breaking news: 500gils for T1 materia is an extreme amount of gil!

[Ramzal]

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And yet again, if someone is stupid enough to buy from gil sellers, then they are ready enough to get banned. It is out in the open that buying from a gil seller is not okay in Square's books. If people would stop paying for money from gil sellers, they'd stop getting banned, and there wouldn't be a demand for the gil sellers to meet if people were to take some self accountability. Again:

SELF ACCOUNTABILITY.

The OP knew what he was getting into when he did it. No one held his lunch away from him saying "You HAVE to do this!" Yes, grinding kind of sucks but if it sucks so badly then stop doing it. If so many people really hated it as much as they really did they'd stop doing the updated relic quest. Square even keeps track of these things. If people just didn't participate at all, then square would take note of this and respond in one way or another. Proof of this is the delay in the Novus quest. Not as many people as they though had got to Animus so they delayed the continuation. I'm not saying for the masses to do this, I'm just saying that Square pays more attention to if you participate or not as opposed to using the "Discard" function.