Materia System

[Dreamer]

sounds like another WoW-clone-thingy. it's Wow's GEM system.

You do realize that WoW wasn't the first to implement these types of systems, right?

[zaviermhigo]

To some people if it wasn't in XI it was in WoW even though i can name probably 20 rpgs that used this before even Warcraft was a game, yeah just warcraft, not WoW. The thing about WoW is they have autocraft, we have manual craft, crafters is a whole class viable to the economy (supposedly), so with this system people will augment their gear through crafters and not stupid magian moogle nm tier quests lol

[Cairdeas]

sounds like another WoW-clone-thingy. it's Wow's GEM system.

People who don't know, don't know.

FFVII had the Materia System before Diablo II had its Socket system which is where WoW evolved its system from.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

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

[Aion]

if they want originality they can cald it Aetheria System... which includes Aether Stone/Rune/Orb/Crystal/Materia

[Rydin]

if they want originality they can cald it Aetheria System... which includes Aether Stone/Rune/Orb/Crystal/Materia

They can call it "Aetheritis"
HAHAHAHA

[Vanguard319]

Sounds a little like Augments from FFXI (Mirke Wardecors anyone?)

[zaviermhigo]

If they do add this I would like a bit of lore that justifies it, that is what separates FF from other games (maybe besides a bioware rpg but do NOT get me started on their last two :[), is the lore.

[Nephera]

I do hope they change the name since its mostly a 7 thing and lore-wise materia is something you're not supposed to be farming because of environmental concerns.

[Cairdeas]

I do hope they change the name since its mostly a 7 thing and lore-wise materia is something you're not supposed to be farming because of environmental concerns.

Materia isn't what was farmed in FF7, it was a bi-product of leaks of the Life Stream hitting the surface. It had nothing to do with Shin-Ra, Make Reactors, or their impact on the environment. Reactors did cause them to be produced more often and Shin-Ra did develope a way to produce them on their own outside of Mako Fountains (Areas where Lifestream is rich in the soil and leaks upwards.) and reactors.

As for FFXIV. They can easily push lore that says the Aether that flows through the planet and allows Teleportation to work too and from Aetheryte Stones has a bi-product that allows crystals to form in rock, grass, trees, or underwater. And DOL have become adept slowly at locating and harvesting these stone for use by DOH to make Materia Crystals.


The fact is they can only call Crystals so many things. But they all mean the same thing in the lore of FF.

Crystal, Magicite, Materia, Have been the three most prominent.

Crystal is already in use. Magicite was used heavily in FFXI so they might want to mix it up for XIV which really leave Materia for this system as far as I see it.