Quote Originally Posted by Frein View Post
How is this currently proposed system "fun"? It's like it is because they want to have item decay in the economy, a necessary evil, if you will. I think the BoP + no item loss way is a much better trade-off.
Games need negatives to keep balance. You can't have it all with no risk. In a game where items can be spam synthed there has to be some way of removing them from the server otherwise you end up with situations where items are worthless, like the crab bow on my server that goes for 35k now. With recipes being simplified it will be even easier to spam synth things. I can see tier 4 materia being worth more than most gear so I don't see why it's a big issue. You probably won't be able to attach materia to raid gear so you'll not be losing super rare gear.