Materia prices. Square-Enix will you look into it?

[Daniolaut]

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

Actually SE does have a big hand in how much materia costs. Prior to 2.2 and 2.3 materia was used only for the crafted items (DoW DoM) and those who just wanted to meld their DoH DoL, but since 2.2, 2.3 materia has more than tripled in price because of Novus, and i70 crafting tools.

I'm simply asking for content that can help balance out the materia costs so it doesnt cost someone 5 million gil to do there novus quest or have them spiritbonding for 4 weeks to get the right materia.