I think you're missing your own point though, SE said that gil was going to drop an entire digit off of the gil everyone has from 1.0 into the transition to 2.0 and that anything an NPC Vendors sells will see a digit dropped off as well, however since you could never buy materia from an NPC Vendor and still can't, I don't see how you're wanting SE to force players to lower their prices to match this. Granted I know all too well how annoying it is to spiritbind gear and to get the materia needed to meld onto gear and even more so for the damned Novus quest SE thought was a brilliant idea. But the Market Boards is not in any way set by the devs or anyone else who went into programming anything in FFXIV, those prices are set by the players themselves, SE has no control over that.

And for the record, I know all too well how expensive the Novus quest can be, I'm 2 melds away from finishing my bow and the materia I need is going for 340k+ per right now and I have a 60% and 50% meld chance on them, those two melds alone will probably cost me over 1-2 mil