Quote Originally Posted by grandm View Post
all i hear is time sink, TIME SINK, like that's a bad thing. games are sposed to be a time sink, work is productive. cooking a meal is productive, spending time with my lady friend OO LA LA. is productive. playing a game is not productive its fun. and fun is a time sink. full stop

take playing football its fun? its a time sink.
or you play profesional, productive (makes you money)
do you play FF14 as a careerer ?? then its a fun time sink
Some time sinks are fun (imo, grinding, partying, NM fighting, dungeon exploring), and some time sinks are completely unnecessary, confusing, and frustrating (the process of buying and selling ANYTHING using the Market Wards).

It's not just the matter that it's a time sink, it's that it's a system that is not friendly to the users at either end of the transaction, and is fundamentally unrepairable without turning it into a buying counter, or "Auction House". Hence why we want an Auction House implemented (and not necessarily spawned from the MW, since some people seem to like the tedium of using it).