Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

[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.

[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.

[Avernius]

http://tinyurl.com/nky2r6p

Everyone will be getting more free time.

Somehow, I don't think that will be enough to save this game...

[Kayo]

http://tinyurl.com/nky2r6p

Everyone will be getting more free time.

I love how they consider a basic "stop clogging our servers for no reason" mechanic as "drastic measures." Half an hour is a more than reasonable time to kick someone off for being AFK. Even if there was more than enough room for everyone to play simultaneously I dont see anything wrong with force kicking someone off the game if they are not actually playing it.

[Taizong]

I love how they consider a basic "stop clogging our servers for no reason" mechanic as "drastic measures." Half an hour is a more than reasonable time to kick someone off for being AFK. Even if there was more than enough room for everyone to play simultaneously I dont see anything wrong with force kicking someone off the game if they are not actually playing it.

They refer to it as a "placebo solution", despite the fact that it's an elegant and reasonable solution. Right now people that paid and invested time in a character can't play, despite legions of people being AFK all day. There isn't even a guarantee a person could find an open slot on another server. This is really unfortunate, SE's server/production team is really showing their naivete and lack of experience here.

[Firetail]

There isn't even a guarantee a person could find an open slot on another server. This is really unfortunate, SE's server/production team is really showing their naivete and lack of experience here.

Even if i could get on another server i dont want to start another char already have a legacy char and working on my 2nd low leg char now. I agree with the experience and naivete bit though it just goes to show much hasn't changed from 11

[Pugmalion1]

I love how they consider a basic "stop clogging our servers for no reason" mechanic as "drastic measures." Half an hour is a more than reasonable time to kick someone off for being AFK. Even if there was more than enough room for everyone to play simultaneously I dont see anything wrong with force kicking someone off the game if they are not actually playing it.

Yes, that's the happy medium we should be striving for here. Even if Square thinks it's akin to the "Close Door" button on an elevator, implementing one would not only alleviate some of the congestion, but it would also make a lot of people very happy. I don't even think it has to be a heavy-fisted action. Your half-hour suggestion is reasonable; an hour would be downright generous. That would be a great place to start. Like many have said before me, there's no benefit to these stagnant characters. They contribute nothing to the community but headaches and rage-broken controllers and keyboards.