Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

[Hairspray]

Not I, don't speak for me.

Okay let me rephrase... most sane people wouldn't mind having this implemented.

If we are AFK, we are just holding space on the server unnecessarily and for no reason other then to make sure we can play later rather then logging off... an AFK timer would make this a non-issue... therefore we have no reason to be against said timer unless we just want to be douchebags.

[Jethero]

An AFK timer would be amazing. Even if the world still fills up and I can't log on, at least I know there's turnover happening and others can play in lieu of those that are AFKing for too long.

[Hairspray]

People forget FFXI had this.... it was set to Auto-Disconnect after 15 minutes by default... you could turn it off but most people didn't know how, so it kept the concurrent connections to the server manageable. Why would anyone be opposed to this?

[Grift3r]

I stood by SE and justified every problem they had, but the fact that they wont code in an afk timer is just lazy. We paid money for a product that isnt working after official launch. If I thought fixing the que was easier than simply adding an afk timer, I would say to do that. Saying "we'll do it next week, maybe" is a lazy and insulting response to the biggest problem your game currently faces. Basically you dont want to take the time to try a simple solution now, in an attempt to appease your player base. You want to devote your man hours to frivolous balancing issues and wait until next week when it will most likley still be an issue.

The gaming community is watching you take a game that could have been amazing, from something that was reviewed as total trash, and thanks to poor technical planning and now putting off your number one problem of logging in, will forever put yet another black eye on the FFMMO and SE names.

[Sebazy]

Because for many, XIV is as much a chat client as it is a game?

An FFXI style configurable auto disconnect would make sense but fixing the queue system would make far more sense. I can only assume that it's hosted on the same cluster that handles exchanging characters between the various zone and duty servers (The weak link that by my reckoning, caused all the early access failures and character lockouts in P4), hence why it's been dialled down to near nothing.

Please try to remember that not once has in-zone performance been an issue even in Ul'dah where the idle players are at their highest ratio.

[Sebazy]

Oh and 8pm BST, I just logged into Ragnarok first try, no 1017, no queue. Go me

[Smashcore]

When they do the "adjustments" next week, whatever they may be, and the issue of server congestion becomes non-existent, then an AFK Auto Disconnect would become inconsequential. That would mean they just wasted $2000 that could have been spent on something else (the $2000 is just a guess based on an average developers pay and time that would be spent, my guess would be around 8 hours. And that's IF it works properly the first time). Waiting for next week to see if this is something they will need for the long term is a good decision. It's crappy for the people who can't get in but they have already stopped people from buying digital downloads to help with this issue and spending money on something risky is...well, risky. I own a business of my own and I understand some of these decisions and I would only ask that you also try to understand why they are doing what they do.

[ThunderCat]

This is damn ridiculous now. I just want to play the game I have pre-paid for and already pre-subbed! Can I please log in to the damn game already? Is that too much to ask? You have my money now give me my product. I feel like I drove 1,017 miles to a resort hotel I already had booked and paid for and them telling me when I get there that they have no vacancies. This is frustrating as hell! I'm not one of those cry babies that whine about "this game is too easy" or "the grass doesn't look real enough" or "bards suck" or "we need SSM in the game". I'm just a simple paying customer and I want to be treated like one.

ok, rant over. I guess I'll get back to the log-in clickety-click-game *crosses fingers*

[Teknoman]

The gaming community is watching you take a game that could have been amazing, from something that was reviewed as total trash, and thanks to poor technical planning and now putting off your number one problem of logging in, will forever put yet another black eye on the FFMMO and SE names.

http://tinyurl.com/nky2r6p

Everyone will be getting more free time.

[Xeonerable]

A server forced AFK logout, while there are restrictions on how many people can be logged on, makes things more fair so that more people have a chance to play until SE can "hopefully" fix the problem.