Quote Originally Posted by Yarly View Post
You nearly halved his steps for someone with access to only a SINGLE account. Many, many people have access to multiple accounts, be it friends/family/mule accounts. The amount of people who only have ONE pol ID in their list is a small minority of people.

Also, STEP#10 "click close" is something you see at LEAAST once every month (when they do billling to remind you about the billing period) but it's also used for just general notices/reminders about version updates. You've never seen this? You obviously don't even PLAY ffxi as far as anyone can tell.

Also, he totally cut down the time by a TON. All those "no wait" time frames are usually at least 2-3 seconds each. There's the stupid animation for buttons and dialogs to fade/slide in. It's stupid and the OP is actually downplaying just exactly how tedious logging in from start to finish really is.
I don't understand why you would share the same accounts on the same platform. Dual-boxing I can understand, even though I don't feel it's all that common as you portray, but if you are playing with family/friends they could just use their own.

I timed myself to see how long it took me to log in. I measured myself from the time I could enter my password on the screen (which is what pops up for me first) to the point where I could see the <welcome to Leviathian> message.

Start: 1:27:25
End: 1:28:36
Total time: 1min 11 seconds.
I don't think that's terrible at all.

Now let's go see how long it takes me to boot up Rift. (I lol'd cause I actually had to wait for a 10 min patch first time I tried). I started from when I could enter password and ended when the world loaded.
Start:1:43:00AM
End: 1:44:33
Total: 1min 33 seconds
I think FFXI was the faster option.