With how valuable materia is and given the fact that there are so many different types, different tiers, different power levels within tiers, and we are having our inventories reduced in 2.0, could there please be some consideration in how materia is stored?

Two possible suggestions I have:

One would be to create a new tab, similar to the crystals tab, just for materia. It would allow us to store all current materia in the game up to stacks of 99 of each power tier.

and/or:

Rebalance materia to stack better. Instead of having Strength Materia IV, with values of +15 through +20, just have Strength Materia IV. When the materia is melded to an item it is given a value between 15 and 20 (or you could institute some sort of mini-game that allows players some control over how powerful the materia ends up. OR, let the player just pick what value they want to attempt where higher values have a greater % chance of failure).

Just in general, I think that something should be done to make materia management more manageable. I'd really like the idea of materia becoming its own category in our inventories, since even in FFVII materia were not considered items and had their own interface.