Item Binding

[Mihana]

I am completely against this idea, it's a definite step backwards. All this will do is more or less force people to start crafting equipment themselves taking away from those who focus on crafting as a regular deal. I really can't see how this benefits the economy at all. There's going to be less incentives to buy gear and less reason so even bother melding materia to equipment. Who's going to care to buy something decked out with materia that will cost a fortune if they can just use something infinitely cheaper with a couple bits of materia melded to it? The issue at hand wasn't ever an over abundance of equipment really, just a lack of it for the lower levels because nobody really bothered making it.

I know this might seem like a knee-jerk reaction but this news alone is enough to make me reconsider if I'll actually come back for 2.0 after all. I hated this system in a lot of other games, but at the same time equipment in those games was so easy to come by. Kill a mob and bam, get a piece of gear you can just sell. We already know gil is going to be harder to come by in 2.0 and even if they "removed a digit" to make stuff seemingly cheaper that still won't help in the long run. Triple-melded gear or quadruple melded will rarely if ever sell.