Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
The thing is due to how law works with games, we technically don't own our accounts. SE do. We only own access to them. Because of this SE can't get sued for actions or lack of information the way most other companies can. They usually can only get into trouble for things relating to real money transactions, such as overcharging for a subscription for example. Other companies put obvious warnings like "may contain nuts" on a fruit and nut bar because they can get sued if there is no allergy warning, but in SE's case the terms of use every player agrees to when they make their account covers them for most things. In short this means SE have more freedom to legally provide less information to their players, while other companies in other industries are forced to be "moron proof".

It's like I said. My opinion hasn't changed, I know the system needs improvement I just think in this case it's not all SE's fault. Being fair it's 50/50 cause both sides needed improvement. I just felt like people pick to blame SE cause it's easier and with all the stuff goign on now with how people are mad about everything else it gets old. So it's not that I -now- see it. I always seen the issues with housing. I was there in the 4.0 series watching people kill each other in chat when Shrio came out. I was on the forums when people were trying to stop house flippers, I watched all that crap and more happen in real time. I watched and even commented on that couple who stole a ward in mateus half a year ago. Oh believe me... housing in XIV needs ALOT of work. I wish they didn't grandfathered people and actually grew some nuts and took those extra houses away from people, making it 1 house for 1 account only. I want them to be more harsh on this issue cause it makes no sense that we should be having this many issues on this for this long. But I also wished people did more research even if it means going off game so things like this doesn't happen. It takes two to tangle, we ALL can improve from this.. we as players and SE as a company providing a service.

The screenshots really show how limiting the info ingame is. It's also why if they are going to put all the info on the lodestone it needs to be highlighted more for players so they can get all the info. That's why I think making it force you on the site is one way to do it. Have the lodestone literally load up on startt up or when you buy a plot. That way you get that info right there as you're doing the action. I can't think of other ways honestly, everything I can think of is blunt and would likely piss people off. But then noone could say it's not there.