Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
Is that right? Turning your beloved items into materia sounds kinda odd. That's what I kinda thought he was saying at first, but I thought it would make sense that hes saying you can customize your favorite items with magic stones to change them, since that would basically be what materia is all about.
Well,the problem all the japanese people were talking about was the Second hand problem.
Where people just continue to throw in the gear in the market after they don`t need it.
This lead to the drop of prices and crafters wanted something where there was a difference between new and 2nd handed items. So i think this Materia system answers this question, where battle classes use a particular weapon for a while(Until it`s like 0% perhaps)and then they can turn it into a materia borrowing the hands from gatherers and crafters.

So i think it isn`t something where players customise the weapon itself, but more of something where they keep changing their weapons into materias after they have used their weapons.This will solve the 2nd hand problem people are talking about and battle classes can keep moving forward by adding materia to their new weapon.