Quote Originally Posted by Draven2 View Post
People have jobs, school, and other responsibilities. I've wasted about 6 hours clicking on housing placards so far, and I'm not going to waste any more of my time doing it.
We all do. Well most of us. I'm into construction and industrial electrical work. I stay busy. I've won several houses in my XIV time so far, and not once have I automated a bit of it. I stand firm on the belief people that do are a large problem regardless of their excuses. It is a clear violation of the terms of service we all agreed to upon signing up for the game in the first place, regardless of how skim through we scroll through it and confusing and somewhat nuanced insanity that is in there, but it's there. I play XIV passionately, I enjoy it, is a thing I set aside time for and I play by the rules. This offends some people that want their stuff their way, and they throw their fits, but the go right on my blist where I feel the belong and I move on. I don't try to just rat people out but when someone decides to accuse me of violating the TOS, lie, and then proceed to do the very things they accuse me of all while automating their gameplay, the do get a good reporting, and I blist them and enjoy the rest of my day in the game. But coming on here advocating that "everyone should be automating this" is actually the exact opposite of real talk and I mean that in no disrespectful way at all.

I do hate people have to sit there and struggle through the purchasing process, I've done it. Once for an FC, my personal house twice because I lost it when I quit, but someone else took stewardship of the FC. I am well aware of that grind. For the record, it sucked and I hated it about 10 seconds into it. But I enjoy the housing aspect of the game enough to tolerate it, and understand why it is implemented in the way it is. I can see if Square Enix decided to allot funds to address it in a different way that they should CLEARLY address this different than they have but time will tell.