[quote]The solution to that is to not sell the items for marks. 1000 glimmer for 20 mats maybe?[/quote] This would actually be worse, because then you could turn around and essentially buy marks/rep by buying the mats with glimmer, which has been useless at endgame outside of IB, and then exchanging the mats you bought for marks/rep. Again, the game is about to be flooded with mats, because you can also get mats from completing the daily heroic and from the daily patrol quest. To balance this out, you have to take away the mats exchange. I get that this sucks for people who got by doing the mats exchange. I had no idea so many people did this (I've only done it twice, for example). To me, farming mats was the worst. This change satisfies the largest portion of their player base (which doesn't mean PvPers), but people who hated farming.