Quote Originally Posted by Selzak View Post
You don't have to do everything in one sitting- I'm building an Apocalypse and making a ton of gil right now by playing ~2hours a day (every other day) doing Dynamis on BST. My playtime is pretty limited and I get in 10 hours a week if I'm lucky. In several months when I'm about halfway done with my relic weapon and have a chunk of gil stored away, some other player who spends all day standing in Port Jeuno might say I have no social life...I guess I will just be the "stupid" one with no life and enjoy my time while he spends his complaining.

If you want to acquire "elite" items in post Abyssea FFXI, you can do it on your own sweet time- but you do have to put in that effort. If you don't want to put in that effort (either in small spurts over a long time or long sittings in a shorter time) then you are part of the bigger piece of the pie that makes the smaller piece feel accomplished. If that Empyrean/Mythic/Relic weapon isn't earned, then you don't feel anything when you finally do get it. If you don't think that's the way it should work, then just play on the Test Server.
I bolded things I found important to respond to.

You're insinuating that because someone doesn't want to put all 10 hours of their playtime into one sitting to camp ONE pop for their trial, that they are lazy. You, on the other hand, are able to acquire your dream gear (Apocalypse) by spending 10 hours actually working towards your goal. If you log out prematurely, at least you have been somewhat productive in that one session. However, someone who is camping a lottery spawn NM may have to leave, and, after two hours of sitting around waiting for the monsters, leave with no progress on their weapon.

How is it fair to accuse them of being lazy? How is it fair to accuse them of wanting the easy way?

All people are wanting is to have the same opportunity to build their weapon as you have; to spend some time on it, every day, and have the progress to show for their work. You collect currency, but they could collect monster kills or some other item to show their dedication. Lottery Spawns are not fair, and not equal, because they are so random.

Be thankful at least your weapon of choice can be worked on whenever you have the time for it.