Quote Originally Posted by ko_ View Post
Do you guys get that link when you login in all of the tabs you have about whatever?
I will occasionally see links (none currently), and they do appear in all tabs, but they aren't able to be selected from within the game interface. This means for a PC player, it's inconvenient, and for a console player, it's borderline unusable. I suspect this is why the Lodestone isn't very heavily emphasized.

Quote Originally Posted by ko_ View Post
And while you maynot have said it's SE's fault posting it here and even pointing at them says you believe they are at fault.
I'd argue they are at fault here. Generally speaking, I believe that games should be self-contained: everything you need to enjoy the game should be within the game. With FFXIV, SE is typically very good at this: from combat to game systems, early game to late, SE has done a tremendous job of putting information in the hands of players. External resources exist, of course, but only to enhance the game: they aren't required reading or viewing. With Housing demolition, they simply dropped the ball. They barely mention the system in-game; their primary notification mechanism is external to the game; their timer is horribly designed and literally invisible most of the time.

That's not to say, of course, that we as players are powerless. We can research, and we can fill in the holes. But I don't agree with the notion that the burden should fall upon them to do so. SE is responsible for the system that is causing the problems. The root issue isn't human ignorance or inattention - something has always existed, and will always exist - but rather, that a critical system in FFXIV does so little to inform and empower people who may be ignorant or inattentive. There's no scenario in which that root issue doesn't cause grief.

The recent credit card siphoning code on Newegg offers us a good IRL example, incidentally. Say that six months from now, someone gets screwed over by credit card information being stolen. When assigning blame, who do you point the finger at? Could the person have seen the news, or watched their credit card statement more closely, or used PayPal instead of entering their credit card? Sure. Would such choices have protected them? Yeah, probably. But ultimately, if there's any blame to assign, it's on Newegg: they're the ones responsible for maintaining a secure site for customers.