Quote Originally Posted by Peptaru View Post
Time is only money when you are at work (as intended by Franklin), video games, as I've said before are intended only to pass time. If time were money, no one would be playing. The three separated dots indicate omission, not deletion. I did not "skip" anything, it was merely shortened to be used as a reference to the original post; English.

Let's say "time is money" is right, and its not free. What will you do with the money? Buy things that other people made with their time? They are charging you 10x or more what their time was worth, you just got a terrible return on your time investment. As someone else pointed out, in regards to low level recipes, you can make lots of money by "wasting" your time. The pinnacle, as I also brought up earlier, is if you are in a "merc" group. Running < 10 minute EX primals for cash will trump anything you can do solo.

The only situation I could see "time is money" being even remotely applicable is if you were sitting in town saying "there is nothing to do" when you could be gathering, crafting, dungeoning (new verb?) or anything that would increase the gil in your coffers. Again, to qualify it all, we pay SE to play, we play to waste time, time in a video game is not money.

Another money maker is the new treasure maps - If you gather your own. A group of 8 people, doing the maps which you can take 8 people to will each make 1500/5000 gil per treasure map. If you all have two maps, you will make nice chunks of change.
People like to use "it's a game" to dismiss whatever they wish to dismiss. Doesn't mean you're correct. There is an in game currency, time spent playing doing one thing, can easily be spent making money or doing something else. The term does apply, you just don't like it.

When I said skip, I didn't mean you left things out. I meant you skipped the entire point, saying that the last part was the only relevant part to help your argument and that the whole thing was ONE piece of advice, not holding a gun to their head to force them to play in said way. Not everyone plays the same way, not everyone plays a game "to pass time" like you do. This is where you aren't getting it. The way you play is not the way everyone plays, but you bash them for it anyways.