^^ This would maybe be more honest. I find it funny how SE fights against RMT but then implements the need of Materia IV items. Guess how many Materia IV Joe Avarage has seen so far. One or two he got from the quests. If Joe Average decides to fully upgrade a stat, he will wonder how on Earth he should get at least 11 of them. And the correct ones, not just any. Even if he can or knows somebody who can craft Level 70 items for him and he finds a group in which he can bind them, it is still all random and a lottery. Then he maybe remembers all these shouts from people he is hearing day by day....

I wish I could be part of the DEV discussion rounds from time to time. Sometimes I would really like to know how they come up with such things. I thought the Upgrade from Zenith onwards was something for the more casual players. Not saying everything should be handed out on a silver plate, but having to grind ATMAS for days (or weeks if unlucky), waiting hours for rare FATES and now needing a ton of Materia suddenly out of the Nowhere is in my eyes nothing for casual players. If they do it at their speed, they have the Weapon upgrade by 2020 lol.

I got all Materia I-III from binding them on my own. But I will go up to 44 points with one stat so I just bought the Materia IV I needed. I don't wanna spend my evenings jumping around in T3 in Level 70 items. I was able to bind all the other Materia in a reaonsable time with the help of daily beastmen quests, Agenda, FATES and also my DOH and DOL but Materia IV is just not going to happen. Takes too long and chance to get the wrong one is too high.

It was a nice sum of 1,2 million GIL, most GIL I have spent on one thing so far. And I know on other Servers, prices are more insane than on mine. So please casuals, look forward to it and zoom your camera to the max so you don't have to see how much GIL you need to spend.