Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
People will still buy items, no one will ever stop trying to become powerful. The difference here is you wont be getting 5 mil for breaking your head aganist RNG using it and then doubling your money (materia itself can still be a good gil seller (changes dependent))


Really how the economy changes will depend on what happened to materia. But the bottom line is either way things will sell, just for how much and therefore how big of a gil sink is it?
Yeah people will still buy items and blow things up for melds, but not on the levels that we did in 1.0. Nowhere near it. The big multi-melds will still be good but mostly a bragging rights thing. They're nerfing materia gains and boosting Dungeon drops through less RNG and more totems. When people can go into Raids and get things for free, they're less likely to spend gil on multiple gear and multiple materia to "attempt" an improvement.