To the people who are logged in overnight

[Emko63]

No, they said they are not adding it right now until it is needed after the upgrade. That is all.

It would take longer to program and design such system over simply upgrading the servers, and with time after that add such system if needed.

Everything is not at face value oh gullible one

They probably already have the function to kick AFK players. It's a simple line of programming language, as opposed to purchasing additional servers and installing necessary software, which is taking days.

[nekochen]

I'm logged in overnight!
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... but I'm actually playing overnight!

[Hagito]

Everything is not at face value oh gullible one

They probably already have the function to kick AFK players. It's a simple line of programming language, as opposed to purchasing additional servers and installing necessary software, which is taking days.

Main problem is the AFK system would not completely clear the 1017 errors, as someone already said. If you kick a hand full of afk people, then a hand full of players would get in, yet there are thousands of players wanting to play they'd get 1017 as well.

Adding more hardware is a better fix than the afk system... if it is needed, after they finish testing the new hardware/servers/worlds then they will add it.

And being honest, knowing people looking at the loopholes, people would just create macros to cast a skill every X time to avoid being kicked with the AFK system. Sorry if this gave people ideas, but it would happen sooner or later.

That's what people do in GW2 when in World vs World when it is 99.9% of the time full.