Please just kick the gods forsaken AFKers!

Yeah this might be a bit of a rant, but it's 2am and I'm still getting the World Full error. You can't tell me that the world is full of people actually still playing this late at night. Sure, some are people actually playing, but the VAST majority are people AFKing because they don't want to face 1017 tomorrow.

I understand not wanting to fight with the error, and I know it's easier to not log out, but the truth is if not one person could AFK for more than 15 mins without getting kicked out of the game, we wouldn't have 1017 errors at all except for MAYBE 2-3 hours during prime time. I could live with that. I wouldn't mind it kicking me out after 15 mins AFK if it meant that I'd be able to log into the game more often than I'm able to now.

As it stands now, I run around cities and I run through MASSESS of AFK players, so thick you couldn't move through them if there was character collision! That's just out in the world, in cities, and in all manner of quest hubs just standing AFK in truly massive crowds 50-100 people strong near aetherytes unmoving for hours on end. That's not counting all those AFK in inns that we can't see.

From what I can see just as I run around, it looks like a good 75% of the people online are actually AFK most of the time.

I honestly think just adding a system to boot people after 15 minutes AFK would have a huge impact on the server congestion problems. It's not like we have bizarres or any reason to stay online indefinitely anyhow.

I'm not encouraging anyone to log off and not AFK right now. It's too hard to get back into the game because of everyone being AFK. I just believe if they instituted an AFK booting system like many other MMOs have, we'd all have to face 1017 a whole lot less.

this game doesnt have 2 of the most needed systems for mmos: a working queue and no afk kick, no wonder 1017 is seriously hurting this game, if the actually game wasnt so awesome most of the players would of took this back to the shop already.

Wonder what the hell were square enix thinking about luanching this game!? no working queues/no afk kick and 25servers for JP and 25 servers for the rest of the world.............really how could they not see this happening ahead of time????

Their excuse is that they ended up with more players than they thought they would. I can see that being valid on not having enough servers, but why have they not implemented an auto-boot and a working queue? Would that really be that hard to do? Maybe they'll add one or the other on Wednesday?

If any of you can write in japanese, I would suggest you to post it on the JP boards. I didn't see ANY response regarding this idea and almost everyone seems to agree with it.

SE does seem pretty racist, they dont do anything unless theirs a problem with the JP servers. Hell there was no announcements watsoever until the JP servers started to get full

I agree, this is so stupid of them to not implement an afk booting system like every other game. I understand why people do leave their computers on all night while they sleep and while they go to work, but this is so bloody unfair to the rest of us who have payed for this game. Imagine if every single person who got into a server right now refused to log out? That would mean the rest of us wouldn't get in - ever. I hope they fix this crap because I refuse to keep attempting to log in for more than 30 minutes at a time.

3am EST, midnight PDT on a Sunday night going into Monday when much of the population has to be at work or school... and I'm still stuck behind 1017. There's no way the server is even 20% full of people who are actually playing right now. :(

Would be nice if they'd just do a server reboot or something. ; ;

3:16 AM here, still can't get on Behemoth.

It is 1:50 in the goddamn AM, and I still cannot get online. I've been trying since 11am in the morning (of course not the whole time but still). AFKers are a huge part of this problem. These hours should be the times that are least congested and this is happening. When I logged on at 2am the previous morning (surprised I could even get on) all I see are AFKers everywhere. This is a HUUUGE problem SE. And you are doing nothing about it but "considering" it.

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Originally Posted by Omnerabdator

SE does seem pretty racist, they dont do anything unless theirs a problem with the JP servers. Hell there was no announcements watsoever until the JP servers started to get full

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It's Japan. They are quite xenophobic and racist (also sexist). Have been for ages. Anyone who actually has lived there or at least visited there for more than a few weeks at a time should have been able to see this by now :\ why weeaboos keep thinking it's so great is beyond me.

Though, to be fair, it seems racism and sexism are still quite prevalent in the US too -_-

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Originally Posted by LetoAtreidesII

It's Japan. They are quite xenophobic and racist (also sexist). Have been for ages. Anyone who actually has lived there or at least visited there for more than a few weeks at a time should have been able to see this by now :\ why weeaboos keep thinking it's so great is beyond me.
Though, to be fair, it seems racism and sexism are still quite prevalent in the US too -_-

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Sorry, your post made me angry
But I don't want to go there
to each is own, don't want to start geopolitics right now

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Originally Posted by Hysterior

If only Japan was more like America it would be great!
scratch that, if more countries were more like America it would be better!
NO! scratch that! America should be the planet Earth!

i do think SE should focus on America first, because it is the only country that matter. All the rest are meh...
Even if a Japanese company, they should first think about America, then about the local market

VIVA AMERICA! Best country! This board is the proof of the America superiority!

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I just said America was racist and sexist (and xenophobic, forgot that one). I mean, look at the GOP party. Anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-minorities in general and they get at least near 50% of the votes in most elections. It's frustrating :\

I'm not saying SE should focus on America first, but should focus on each region individually properly. They haven't done that.

Not a technical issue. You are blaming players for the game's issue.

Hate the game, not the player. Also wave to my character who has been AFK since Thursday.

i am not afk i am counting grains of sand
to kick me would break my immersion and ruin my RP experience

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Originally Posted by mrwuss

Not a technical issue. You are blaming players for the game's issue.

Hate the game, not the player. Also wave to my character who has been AFK since Thursday.

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First, SE is at fault for no proper anti-afk measures

Second, that statement "hate the game, not the player" is stupid in every instance it's used. Why? because the player makes the conscious choice to play the game and adhere to bad rules. They are at fault just as much.

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Originally Posted by LetoAtreidesII

First, SE is at fault for no proper anti-afk measures

Second, that statement "hate the game, not the player" is stupid in every instance it's used. Why? because the player makes the conscious choice to play the game and adhere to bad rules. They are at fault just as much.

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Fault signifies wrong doing and those players have not done anything wrong. Your perceived wrong doing is your own problem.

Get angry at the real issue not what that issue has brought on.

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Originally Posted by mrwuss

Fault signifies wrong doing and those players have not done anything wrong. Your perceived wrong doing is your own problem.

Get angry at the real issue not what that issue has brought on.

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Selfishly staying logged in keeping others from playing just so you can is wrong doing. Yes, you are at fault.

And who's angry? Just annoyed. And I am annoyed at the real issue which is SE's fault for failing to account for a lot of things with the launch, but I won't ignore the selfish childish mindset of players like you either. So many kids need to grow up :| people need to stop being selfish kids.

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Originally Posted by LetoAtreidesII

Selfishly staying logged in keeping others from playing just so you can is wrong doing. Yes, you are at fault.

And who's angry? Just annoyed. And I am annoyed at the real issue which is SE's fault for failing to account for a lot of things with the launch, but I won't ignore the selfish childish mindset of players like you either. So many kids need to grow up :| people need to stop being selfish kids.

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I do not stay logged in so others can not play. I stay logged in so that I may play when I wish to.

Your needs and wants don't ever cross my mind when making decisions about a video game. You just do not matter to me. I paid for the game and am using is well within the rules of SE, anything beyond that is just noise.

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Originally Posted by Altheras

Their excuse is that they ended up with more players than they thought they would. I can see that being valid on not having enough servers, but why have they not implemented an auto-boot and a working queue? Would that really be that hard to do? Maybe they'll add one or the other on Wednesday?

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SE has no excuse. I'm not falling for the "oh but we didn't expect this many people" nonsense. They know how many copies of the game they sold. They need to expect that those people - especially the ones who preordered - would want to play the game at launch.

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Originally Posted by LetoAtreidesII

First, SE is at fault for no proper anti-afk measures

Second, that statement "hate the game, not the player" is stupid in every instance it's used. Why? because the player makes the conscious choice to play the game and adhere to bad rules. They are at fault just as much.

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having the majority online gamers policing their own social etiquette is like giving the senate the ability to give themselves raises.

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Originally Posted by mrwuss

I do not stay logged in so others can not play. I stay logged in so that I may play when I wish to.

Your needs and wants don't ever cross my mind when making decisions about a video game. You just do not matter to me. I paid for the game and am using is well within the rules of SE, anything beyond that is just noise.

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What a disgraceful attitude.

"I paid for this, so I'm obviously more important than anyone else who paid for it"

I wanted to pass along some statistics.

Started at 3:45pm, current time 4:45am
13 hours of attempted logged ins.
8,801 attempted log ins
7 times places in que
7 times in que given 1017 error after being in que


I don't blame people for staying logged on because it is a decision they have made and honestly I can't say I wouldn't have done the same. My issue is with Square Enix for allowing it to happen and forcing people to do this to stay in game. You have taken a potentially wonderful experience for many people and destroyed it. What is sad IMO is the reaction given by customer support. They don't seem to care or show any sympathy. I know their job isn't fun now, but your reaction goes along way and is what we see.

To be fair, perhaps shutdown the game and put in a system that eliminates the AFK players. Some people have been logged in for almost a week. They go to work for 10 hours, sleep for 8 hours and play for 6 hours. 18 of 24 hours are AFK. How can you allow this to happen????????