When i hear MATERIA, i can only imagine it by immersion wise, is a stone, magic stones that was gathered by the DoL classes as a Material to be fuse with existing equipments to enchants it characteristic self.

There been a lot of this system not only on WoW, but before WoW itself and after WoW itself. So there is not need to bicker who and what make it first or what ever, because is pointless to discuss so in the first, just the important part is how it is IMPLEMENTED and THE WAY BEING FUSED, how it called is also important as well.

IMO; is great to see they used term name "Materia System"; why? Well there chocobo, cid, airships, sometime there other stuff that you might not notice where actually found from older Final Fantasy games; or better yet reference from other SE titles games(or SQ).

Anyway, is not that there many game titled use the named Materia stones, FF Tactics have one, and originated from FF7... . Come on.... they're making this for the fans~~~~~~~~~ what more to have anything related for "us" so called fans for once??? :C we need love too... T_T