AFK Kick Timer

[Mailstrum]

Couple things that stand out to me, first thing being all of this seems to revolve around the JP worlds, with no mention of the EU/NA worlds. Meaning that this Sept. 4th update is likely for the JP worlds only, with the EU/NA worlds getting their update at a later time, if this wasn't the case then such an announcement would have been posted in the English forums as well.

Second, they are only considering a refund of days lost for those who have a legacy account? Is that some kind of sick joke?

No he stated in the long post on this forums that this server upgrade and maintenance is ment for both EU/NA and Japan data centers. It was miss understood and was never ment to be just for Japan data centers. and the compensation is for everyone.

[Arminus]

No he stated in the long post on this forums that this server upgrade and maintenance is ment for both EU/NA and Japan data centers. It was miss understood and was never ment to be just for Japan data centers.

What long post? And exactly what is the reasoning that they are only returning lost days to those with a legacy account? Are they intentionally trying to lose potential customers?

[Meetram]

Arminus its more that they just were not ready for the load the servers have to take. Although i love the game, its to hard to try to play lol, between login, instance and pretty much every snigle server they use to let the game function becoming congested. But after the problems that plagued the first version, i can guarentee there busting ass to fix this as soon as possible.

[Mailstrum]

What long post? And exactly what is the reasoning that they are only returning lost days to those with a legacy account? Are they intentionally trying to lose potential customers?

no compensation is for everyone that has an active account not just legacy account.

[Wren_Fuoren]

So because you have nothing you have to do besides play this video game and can wait 30-40 mins without having to potentially clean, cook or ect noone else can have real life duties? When you grow up and realize that real people have to work and take care of themselves you might realize that not everyone afks because they choose to, sometimes we HAVE to do things while we await our queues, especially when u have to use duty finder for stuff like dungeons and trials for the primary story lines.

It's called time off from work and study, friend. I would suggest you think before making an attack post eh? Makes you look like a right fool, as much as anyone posting about queues or login issues.

[Mailstrum]

What long post? And exactly what is the reasoning that they are only returning lost days to those with a legacy account? Are they intentionally trying to lose potential customers?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/73680 this long post

[Chrysus]

What long post? And exactly what is the reasoning that they are only returning lost days to those with a legacy account? Are they intentionally trying to lose potential customers?

You seem to be uninformed. You really aught to look around the forum instead of jumping straight to Technical Support. I was guilty of that a while back. They are considering giving an added 7 days to the already 30 days free trial play to all player accounts

[SSimpson]

I've seen over 100 people AFK on 1 server. I've seen tons of ppl sitting by the Armorsmith and Blacksmith not moving, not crafting, not doing anything but stand there. So, if I see about 100 people AFK in just ONE place, I'm going out on a limb and say there's probably more than 1000 on a server that's AFK. So, let's rethink this AFK auto log out function....

If there's 1000 people trying to log in but can't due to ~500 AFKers, that means that 500 people that are pissed off because they can't play will be able to log in and play and thus, not pissed off anymore. It's simple really, add the AFK auto kick timer and expand the server capacity. If you do both, that will definitely help FIX the problem.

"Oh wait, i'll just get a 3rd party program that'll make me jump every 5 mins to prevent the auto kick function."

My reply to that is I hope you get a Trojan or a virus when you download said 3rd party program. If you ever wonder why when you log in that you don't have any weapons, armor or gil...it's because your account was hacked by said 3rd party programs...that's why they tell us not to use them in the 1st place. So, in short, it'll be your own fault for getting a 3rd party program to keep you logged in all the time. Don't go crying to SE for a character roll back if you use them.

[Arminus]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/73680 this long post

Is that the right link? Because I don't see anything in there that says any of the things you mentioned, about the server changes on the 4th were meant for the both data centers/etc.

[Mailstrum]

I've seen over 100 people AFK on 1 server. I've seen tons of ppl sitting by the Armorsmith and Blacksmith not moving, not crafting, not doing anything but stand there. So, if I see about 100 people AFK in just ONE place, I'm going out on a limb and say there's probably more than 1000 on a server that's AFK. So, let's rethink this AFK auto log out function....

If there's 1000 people trying to log in but can't due to ~500 AFKers, that means that 500 people that are pissed off because they can't play will be able to log in and play and thus, not pissed off anymore. It's simple really, add the AFK auto kick timer and expand the server capacity. If you do both, that will definitely help FIX the problem.

"Oh wait, i'll just get a 3rd party program that'll make me jump every 5 mins to prevent the auto kick function."

My reply to that is I hope you get a Trojan or a virus when you download said 3rd party program. If you ever wonder why when you log in that you don't have any weapons, armor or gil...it's because your account was hacked by said 3rd party programs...that's why they tell us not to use them in the 1st place. So, in short, it'll be your own fault for getting a 3rd party program to keep you logged in all the time. Don't go crying to SE for a character roll back if you use them.

again the anti afk system isnt the answer its easily circumvented what is needed is what they are doing upgrading the data centers and servers so that they can remove the server artifical cap. currently the servers ARE NOT REALLY FULL! its a cap they put in place to prevent over loads in 1 zone to crash the server, then the 1017 errors are due to the fact the data centers queue system needs to be upgraded so that it can hold more people in queue