This is absolutely ridiculous

[idgamerd]

^ Too true. If I had a window say "You are 350,423 in queue. Estimated Wait: 8 hours"
I'd still be more pleased than I am now.

I'm literally laying in bed, PS3 controller hooked up to my computer, and spamming X as I lay here half-napping.

A fun and exciting weekend :-P Kicking x or spamming 0 doesnt help if the servers are down though lol

[Jsnarch]

They need to do something about the afk people on the server. They don't get kicked for being afk.

[Zynth]

As much as I hate to say it, as it restricts my game play as well, logging in during low population time and staying afk is a strategy at this point. I cant get upset at them for doing it, but I can get upset at SE for not doing something to allow me to play a game I purchased when I want to. 7 extra free days is a nice start, but unless they offer free server transfers the addition of new worlds will not fix this particular issue.

[idgamerd]

As much as I hate to say it, as it restricts my game play as well, logging in during low population time and staying afk is a strategy at this point. I cant get upset at them for doing it, but I can get upset at SE for not doing something to allow me to play a game I purchased when I want to. 7 extra free days is a nice start, but unless they offer free server transfers the addition of new worlds will not fix this particular issue.

My thoughts exactly!

[Illuvetar]

The problem is that there are so many selfish piles of digital poo who don't log out. The servers can handle a concurrent 230.000+ log-ins (per World/Server) at a time. I think that anyone who idles for 2+hrs needs to be given a ban (or placed in Digital Jail) depending upon their idle-time... and if they idle in the digital jail, it extends their time outside of play.

On Tuesday/Wednesday we are getting additional servers.

The problem is that currently, that's the only way anyone can actually play during any kind of prime time. I'm almost never able to log in around 3-9 pm.

[FancyCorndog]

The login limitations are caused by these people, NOT the other way around.

Why doesn't this happen in capped servers on every game then?

[Slatervonjager]

Why, release a game that can't take stress on the servers?

ALL servers have issues dealing with stress, that's why it's called stress. And they didn't release a game that cannot take stress on the servers, they released a game that just so happened to have more people then expected all try to join so soon. The stress testing during Phase 4 wasn't enough to ready them for this. They actually upgraded server load after phase 4 in order to handle more players, but they didn't expect to have EA topple phase 4 like it did. many people preordered after phase 4 ended, meaning that there were MANY last minute preorders. And upgrading servers like these, isn't something that is done at the flick of wand. If it was a mail server, no big deal, can be upgraded in less then 20 minutes. But these servers actually take much longer to prep.

And people, there is a queue, if you're not getting into the queue, its because the queue is too large.

[CaptainJudaism]

As much as I hate to say it, as it restricts my game play as well, logging in during low population time and staying afk is a strategy at this point. I cant get upset at them for doing it, but I can get upset at SE for not doing something to allow me to play a game I purchased when I want to. 7 extra free days is a nice start, but unless they offer free server transfers the addition of new worlds will not fix this particular issue.

I can be upset at them because of this behavior. By logging in and staying AFK for hours or days at a time they are refusing other people who would actually PLAY the game access to the game. They are going "Well MY $30 are more important everyone elses $30 that I'm preventing from playing because I'm more important than any of them." which is a crock and an insult. Sure, if they logged out there would still be 1017 errors but more people would be able to rotate in to access and enjoy their game but are unable to because of these selfish schmucks.

[Slatervonjager]

I love how none of you, ever get pissed about the fact that it's the bots, and gil sellers that are clogging things up, not someone who left to go take a dump, or eat. There are not that many "afkers" as you guys seem to think there are.

[namiuo]

i mean i mean i mean i mean i mean i mean i mean i mean i mean. . . . .