Spiritbinding = Ex?

[Quesse]

They finally realized this whole materia melding thing is fucking up the economy....
If you noticed in 1.0, no one was really selling Materia IV, because everyone was keeping it for themselves.
But when people were selling them, prices were ridiculous for something that had high chances to blow with multiple melding attempts.
Now what they are doing is the right path, Ex melding and more materia for sale = cheaper Materia IV = less money to blow on double, triple, quadruple IV.

I don't see how having more Ex equipment necessarily leads to more materia. Just because I can't sell/trade some old piece of equipment doesn't mean I'm going to take the time to spiritbond to 100% so I can convert to materia and sell. I'm more likely to just toss it or NPC it. I wish it was going to mean more materia but I doubt it.

If anything it will mean less materia for sale because you won't be able to buy 'used' materia-melded equipment. So there will be more materia needed for me to double-meld what I want (or crafters will be doing more double/triple melding) because the used market is gone. This equals more materia being used and prices going up.