Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
Relic isn't for everyone, but I still stand by the opinion that the current use of materia/melding with relic is pretty stupid and imbalanced.

Literally all they have to do to correct this is introduce an NPC which sells the materia at a reasonable price- Which could be 500k each and still be much better than the way it is now. That would still put it at 1m per double meld attempt, it would discourage artificial inflation through greed, and actually work to curb inflation altogether by removing gil from the economy. All the current system does is redistribute gil, largely into the hands of RMT.

I can't begin to understand why they haven't done so yet. And if they don't do something similar soon, I would consider it a major blunder simply by virtue of missing a huge opportunity to remove gil from the economy.
I haven't seen a train of rmt's mining gold and darksteel yet. I also haven't seen them SB anything either... People want to complain about prices but has anyone thought of asking your ls to help you get the items you need. Relic isn't for everyone and if you can't fork over at least 10 mil for materia then it isn't for you. (Coming from someone with 500k) If you don't want to pay the 1.5 mil or 2 mil per materia then wait for the prices to drop cause I've seen the 2 mil materia drop to 1 mil from time to time not to mention as people get relic the price will go back to normal.

If you want this game to be run by npcs and quest rewards then I suggest you play a single player game.