Materia prices

[Hippo]

I have noticed materia prices going down lately. Anybody knows the reason why?

[Lyrinn]

Because all the gil is being concentrated at the top and the average player gets poorer.

[UrbanLucrece]

Perhaps more players gotten into the market thus undercutting and demand is less.

[Ashgarth]

Demand is lower every day while suply increases from people trying to find some way to get gil in the crashing markets.

[Fatestorm]

Honestly these are probably reasons:

A) People are realizing more and more the 'not-worth-it-ness' of the iLvl 70 crafted gear like Vanya and Rose Gold. It's useful, but certainly not best in slot. Cost in tomestone materials has plummeted, and the ability to HQ those items is easily done by hundreds of competing crafters on a server. Since these items are the only items really *worth* putting battle materia on, as demand for these items decreases, demand for battle materia to put in them decreases.

B) People were buying lots of crafting materia for a long time to gear up their crafters in crafting AF hq gear, fully melded and all. Except by now, a lot of people have realized how little money there is to be 'made' by putting all that materia on that gear. Because no crafted items are really viable or necessary for top tier battle content, people are realizing that crafting as a market has been catering to *itself*, and that the profitability of that pyramid scheme has been collapsing for the last month.

C) The huge exorbitant gil cost of housing has prompted people to seal their purses tighter than Zeus' sphincter to save every last gil for their house, whereas everyone with materia stockpiled is trying to unload it now before the market crashes.

Those are my thoughts anyway.

[Jilse]

Honestly these are probably reasons:

A) People are realizing more and more the 'not-worth-it-ness' of the iLvl 70 crafted gear like Vanya and Rose Gold. It's useful, but certainly not best in slot. Cost in tomestone materials has plummeted, and the ability to HQ those items is easily done by hundreds of competing crafters on a server. Since these items are the only items really *worth* putting battle materia on, as demand for these items decreases, demand for battle materia to put in them decreases.

This. Plus, the selling of titan runs also hurts the ilvl70 crafted weapons. Why would someone buy a hq weapon for 500k or more when that will buy them a free run hydra-titan.

[indira]

stupid undercutting is the main reason. 1 gil lower is all you need to make the top of the list. not reduce the price by 50% or more.

SE also made crafting worthless, why spend gil when gear is free?

[OmegaFlare]

ilvl 70 gears will be much easier to craft after the patch requiring only 9 tome mats instead of 18 tome mats, this will drive the price of tier 4 materia down. This, in turn, will drive the price of lower tier materia down as well.

[Zultimus]

Unless, the endgame gear / new high lv craft gear, will be meld in the future, the price of materia will keep going down.

[Xatsh]

More and more people are getting allagan.

Crystal tower is bringing Ilvl 80 gear

You can now get 450 myth a week so getting af2 is going to be easier.

Aka crafting and materia is becoming more meanless now. Prices will crash soon. still trying to figure out why there are no materia slots on non-crafted gear.