AFK'ers ARE THE PROBLEM

First, as painful as it is, some people do not logout because login these days is a pain in the ass, you can expect from 30 minutes to 6 or more hours trying to login so we can't really blame them,
but from a business perspective, you can't get rid of afkers, since since they will be paying a subscription 24/7 (excluding maintenance and crashes), from a business perspective you don't care if the people are actively playing or just being afk all of the time. Let's say those 6 million afkers are paying 14.99/month, that would be equal to 89 940 000. The problem is if you put restrictions, and those afkers do not like it, they could stop renewing their subscription which would cause a lower income to a business.

When they launched games like Rift, they started with an AFK system until the servers evened out. It worked amazingly. If those guys can do it, I am sure S.E can....right?!?

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Originally Posted by Nemma

When they launched games like Rift, they started with an AFK system until the servers evened out. It worked amazingly. If those guys can do it, I am sure S.E can....right?!?

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or...SE can just get bigger servers (like they said they are doing and going to install tomorrow)...that way everyone can log in anytime they want to and stay logged in however long they want to just like they have done in FFXI for 11 years...

ok i understand people are paying to play this game but you are paying to /play/ not paying to stay logged in overnight so that you don't deal with all the errors that the rest of us are getting because you don't want to.

Oh yes, the AFKers are the problem NOT the several thousand people spamming the login screen with scripting and macros to spam 0 for hours on end.

Riiiiiiight.

Godwin's law in overdrive.

I have to disagree in they knowing how many persons to expect, they could have an estimate on bought items, but there is a problem, something they could not measure as much as they wanted, and that 1.0 players, these persons are allowed to just log into the game, and did not even have to order the game. The most they could have done is do a poll asking players if they'd be back, and let's be honest. not everybody replies to polls.

I agree, but since that does not seem to be their idea of a "fix", here is the alternative. I just really hope it gets fixed tomorrow.

This bad circle will never end as long as people are selfish and stay AFK.

Come server update, people will be paranoid and even if they log in instantly, they'll stay logged in "just in case it is hard to get in tomorrow", at which point the available connections shrink and fewer can play, which will make people stay AFK to avoid the problems and even less slots remain, until it is just the same as now, even though the issue is solved.

But at least SE have admitted that if the community does not shape up and keep ruining their servers, they'll add a afk-disconnect system that will force these out of the server, so that people can realize the queues are fixed. Just a shame we'll probably have to wait until the 15th, instead of having it solved tomorrow. Again, all to blame the AFKers.

There actually are not that many AFKers.

" We were also told that while players may be seeing tons of other players idling around AFK, the vast majority of players logging in are actually playing, they’re just putting in some crazy hours."

Source: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...-Prime-13.html