Quote Originally Posted by Rhomagus View Post

I know they were making it easier but I don't remember hearing about them changing the tiers.
Yoshi-P made a side comment on it in the last letter. There are a couple of docs out there with translations. He said they are going to consolidate the Materia back to having a single value for each tier and that everyone's materia would be set to the highest stat. I welcome this... Materia in inventory was getting out of hand.