Is it really asking too much

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Originally Posted by Raist

0.o so I'm not the only old fart in this game after all?

Oh the days of bulletin boards, and that annoying 14.4/28.8k squawk box. Good times.

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If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

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Originally Posted by Knall

Why oh why does everything get compared to WoW. Personally I despise the game and couldn't stand playing it despite someone offering to pay the sub. How about we skip trying to turn this into wow and move toward something DIFFERENT than that PoS game :P

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Nobody was trying to turn this into WoW... he simply used WoW as an example for what is a basic necessity of ANY MMO. You need to calm your tits. You hate a video game, thats cool. Relax.

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Originally Posted by Mailstrum

for like a day then the mass majority of the people will find a way to stay logged in. the people that are staying logged in are the same type of people that would circumvent the afk timer with a 2 second to make macro. Simple at this point all of these things are not needed because the issue will be fixed in 2 days.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...e_days/cbz520t

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First of all, your argument that an AFK system would not stop 'most' players from AFKing still implies that it would help prevent at least SOME people... for a system that does not hurt the game in any conceivable way.

Second of all, you're wrong. Straight up. You really do give the general public too much credit. 'Most' is really overshooting it.

Finally, it's not just an AFK timer we need. A login queue will mean that players can login without having to actively gamble at it for extended periods of time. As long as the player is guaranteed to get in eventually, there's no need to AFK to ensure that spot anymore, and an AFK kick timer ensures the queue keeps moving. MMO 101.

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Originally Posted by Knall

If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

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lol.. BAUD rate. Wonder how many here even know what that is. It was so much fun to walk into a government building and find old System/36 systems still lying around... the dreaded hard drives the size of a masonry block that couldn't even hold a single CD's worth of data. Seriously, they were complete with fan/heatsink and literally like 20 lbs or heavier. Oh, and the 8 inch floppies.... 1/4 tape reels.

The good old days, when you could actually get at the guts of your OS. This Win8 crap is driving me NUTS!!!

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't part of our problem with SE these last few years. All the younger script kiddies that have no "old school" skills, and just don't know how to think things through and plan properly for the exceptions that can come their way. I remember first watching guys do things in Eclipse, and I was like WTF?!! It was like automated coding? When the hell did that happen?

Man.. I feel really old now... time for some Irish Coffee, and back to work.

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Originally Posted by Raist

lol.. BAUD rate. Wonder how many here even know what that is. It was so much fun to walk into a government building and find old System/36 systems still lying around... the dreaded hard drives the size of a masonry block that couldn't even hold a single CD's worth of data. Seriously, they were complete with fan/heatsink and literally like 20 lbs or heavier. Oh, and the 8 inch floppies.... 1/4 tape reels.

The good old days, when you could actually get at the guts of your OS. This Win8 crap is driving me NUTS!!!

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't part of our problem with SE these last few years. All the younger script kiddies that have no "old school" skills, and just don't know how to think things through and plan properly for the exceptions that can come their way. I remember first watching guys do things in Eclipse, and I was like WTF?!! It was like automated coding? When the hell did that happen?

Man.. I feel really old now... time for some Irish Coffee, and back to work.

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Not to hijack the thread but . . . do you remember making those 8.5" floppies double sided so you could skip out on the extra cost? I remember seeing people sticking them between book pages and freezing them up. As far as those giant drives I might actually have a few lying around for posterity somewhere, assuming my wife didn't toss them already. Remember when 'tape' drives came out to pc markets? by tape I mean cassette tape. I am not sure I actually EVER got one of those to actually WORK. You remember the 'turbo' button that came with the newer PC's? I remember someone pushed that once when I wasn't paying attention and it took AGES for a game to load and I was wondering WTF!?

That was back in the days of MUDS. I believe some of my old stomping grounds are still around, maybe I should go look while we have down time! Assuming I can still read.

-K