new crafted gear useless for raid and so is materia V?

[Kaedan94]

Companies sell at the price that maximises profit. To think otherwise is naive.

It's competition that pushes prices down. Monopolies literally charge what the market will bare - maximising (number of units * profit per unit).

This is precisely what I just said. The issue is that some crafters in FF price BEYOND bearable levels... thus encouraging gil buying. And as I said, in many cases those same crafters actually go and sell that gil back to the RMT companies.