I hate you square enix.

[Akujima]

Are you guys calculating up the cumulative seconds/minutes you spend doing non-productive activities throughout the day...?

Wow, they got you brain-washed good down there eh?

[rog]

I've never really agreed with arguments like these. Time is not a currency that you can budget and save up for later. It's not like one could find a way to bypass that 2 minutes, save them up and trade them in for 40 days later in life.

No, you could bypass those 2 minutes, and trade them in immediately. And as noodles said, we all waste a lot of time every day. Effective time management is far more useful than you might think. 2 minutes may not be much, but what about 2 minutes opening the door, then 2 minutes starting your game, then 20 minutes standing around in that game doing nothing, etc etc. Suddenly you are spending years of your life doing absolutely nothing of value.

[Zyeriis]

No, you could bypass those 2 minutes, and trade them in immediately. And as noodles said, we all waste a lot of time every day. Effective time management is far more useful than you might think. 2 minutes may not be much, but what about 2 minutes opening the door, then 2 minutes starting your game, then 20 minutes standing around in that game doing nothing, etc etc. Suddenly you are spending years of your life doing absolutely nothing of value.

You forgot about the time spent coming onto the forums to talk about this.

[rog]

You forgot about the time spent coming onto the forums to talk about this.

Personally i find my time spent here to be at least mildly productive, so that time does not apply.

[Raez]

I don't know. If you write a batch file to automatically log you into FFXI without pressing any buttons, are you still logged into the game?

If I knew how to do that, I'd do it. A one button login would send shivers down my spine. Do I need to make a batch file (not sure what that is exactly, I assume its like a macro from DOS) for every menu in game, or do you think they could spend one month out of the nine years this game has been out to remove stupid menu redundancy?

[noodles355]

There's a difference between standing in your house and standing in your house ready to do stuff. The equivilent to being logged into FFXI fully is the latter.

I didn't disagree with anything else you wrote apart from this analogy. Just admit it was a poor one and move on.

[noodles355]

Suddenly you are spending years of your life doing absolutely nothing of value.

I'm fine with that and to be honest I expect most people are too. I think very very few people actually use their time to such an extent they aren't wasting years of their life.