This needs to change!

[Demikz]

I disagree, sorry. I think the system is really well tuned. A 14% chance, well it's not great but on that item you've already overmelded twice which brings the % lower for each consecutive try and well, 14% it's not bad either.
Sure, it sucks to be screwed over trying to meld a simple materia and failing everytime, believe me I know! This happened to me yesterday, failing 11+ times on a 24% chance! wtf?! But that's the design and it works, it gives the game economy lets noobies make a little extra gil converting their items as they level up and makes things like penta-melding with level 3/4 materias that have 2-9% chances or whatever it is, bloody incredible if you get lucky enough.

[Arlen]

The fact that you find this acceptable, tells me you have not done much endgame crafting/harvesting. The RNG system is so broken that once you get below 10% success rate, it might as well be 1%

You are incorrect. I have.

I go into it understanding RNG and percentages. Maybe the difference of opinion should tell you that there are differing opinions rather than that someone isn't as experienced as you.

I don't have to spiritbond 20 pieces and hope for the right drop and then hope that it works. This isn't a solo game. I use my "endgame crafting/harvesting" to supply other adventurers in return for gil. With that gil I can return the favor to those adventurers by purchasing the materia that I want.

You are attempting to max out gear potential. Do you think you should be able to do that for the price of a single piece of materia...or let's just get to choose what materia we want when we convert?

[thunderbreak]

To all the people who says the system is OK, I'm sure many if not all of you have utilized this system and just accepted your result the way it is.

What I will say, no normal person enjoy having their resources wasted. And whether you admit it or not, you've been conditioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning