For those who don`t get the problem with red scrips...

[Yukiko]

(..) All this wouldn't be so bad if I ONLY fished, but I'm still trying to get through Alexander, run dungeons with friends, level crafters from time to time, AND I'm trying to work on a comprehensive lvl 60 MCH guide (..) Frankly, they've got it set up so that only the players who exclusively craft and gather have any hope of getting the high end items for quite a long time to come, and even then many of them won't be getting them without a lot of free time on their hands.

Thats exactly the Problem Square Enix is facing!
But how to solve that?

Other games try it with "upgrading" to make older or just other items useful -> trading botanist ressources to miner ressources or vise versa. Another methode is to use one global currency and let players get it through the game, varying the buy cost for the items then makes sure you cant get all at once and the players have freedome to choose what to buy first -> look at fenrir mount and MGP. Lets have a look at materia: why we cant upgrade 2 grade 1 to one grade 2, 2 grade 2 to one grad 3 and so on -> best example is Diablo from Blizzard.

In Fact we have too many from everything, but nothing really good. you cant buy ravena weapons with MGP, you cant buy a house with tomestones, you cant buy tomestones with gil... all those, there is not a single connection! you are FORCED to do every content alone - MGP cant get outside (not even trading gil to MGP or such)....