Leveling any craft has been made far too easy by today's standards. You can pour as little as 1mil into crafting and would rocket you to at least lv35-40. The fact that FFXIV encourages it's players to craft and even have multiple crafts is just crazy... The supply outweighs the demand right now. And yes will continue as the game gets more players and even after the server merge. More options for spirit bonding may be a way to solve this since the "High profit" items are always stocked. A good way of looking at incentivising is broadening the materia obtainment to other pieces of equipment (seems unbalanced at the moment). Basic materials are too easily obtainable from leves which in my opinion should be exclusively gather obtained. There are a lot of good points brought up in this thread and we do need to solve our economy problem.