Why won't you implement an Auto-Kicker?

[ArkhamNative]

This isn't XI - it Needs a kicker. ... I am guessing about 60% of the population actually AFK's for long periods of time, causing the congestion and 1017 issues for the rest of us. The longer it goes, the more that do it - why? "oh man, I don't want to NOT be able to play, I better just stay logged in!"

I mentioned FFXI because someone said all MMOs had them, and that one didn't, not even during its height of popularity.

You (and I) can only guess about the number of AFK. When SE brought worlds up after a maintenance they would be showing 1017 within minutes. Do you really think 2500 AFK people (~60%) per world had auto-relaunch/relogin scripts to accomplish that?

I still think, and maybe you even just admitted, that when people aren't afraid of not being able to log in, the AFK problem will pretty much solve itself. For the rest, SE may have its "kicker" in place by then.

[Kohoutek]

There have been a number of comments on various threads suggesting to stay logged in to FF14 throughout the work day. Many of the servers stay full of afk'ers throughout traditionally lower population nocturnal hours, and traditional work/school times. Funny and sad at the same time.

As I started looking into this issue, I was shocked that there is no Auto-Kicker. Having played MMO since EQ, this has been implemented consistently to address this issue. Even the most populated WoW vanilla servers (Illidan, etc) from launch, you could set an alarm at 0300-0400 and create a character.

In my situation, numerous guild friends from another game migrated to Excalibur. This server has been greyed out for new character creation for days now. I have gotten up at 300 EST with the intent of at least attempting to create a new character, the server was still greyed out. This AM at 0630 EST, all but 3 servers on the list were greyed out.

Unless customer service announces that one server transfer will be allowed regardless of server load (when this opens up in a couple of weeks), I am not seeing a prospect for being able to join my friends on line any time soon. They are making friends, contacts and guild affiliations, and I will not be asking anyone to transfer to a less populated server on my behalf.

I have created a character on Behemoth, (can log into that server about 1/3 of the time), but am ultimately aware that the prospect of character transfer to Excalibur is remote. In my case, playing with my group of guild friends is what I want to do. This is a frustrating issue; a deal breaker. I will absolutely not support this game beyond this month unless server loads are increased this week or an Auto Kicker is implemented this week.

Wildstar will be out in 6 mos or so. Looks like I may be finding another gaming option to keep me busy in the meantime.

[Kissker]

There have been a number of comments on various threads suggesting to stay logged in to FF14 throughout the work day. Many of the servers stay full of afk'ers throughout traditionally lower population nocturnal hours, and traditional work/school times. Funny and sad at the same time.

As I started looking into this issue, I was shocked that there is no Auto-Kicker. Having played MMO since EQ, this has been implemented consistently to address this issue. Even the most populated WoW vanilla servers (Illidan, etc) from launch, you could set an alarm at 0300-0400 and create a character.

In my situation, numerous guild friends from another game migrated to Excalibur. This server has been greyed out for new character creation for days now. I have gotten up at 300 EST with the intent of at least attempting to create a new character, the server was still greyed out. This AM at 0630 EST, all but 3 servers on the list were greyed out.

Unless customer service announces that one server transfer will be allowed regardless of server load (when this opens up in a couple of weeks), I am not seeing a prospect for being able to join my friends on line any time soon. They are making friends, contacts and guild affiliations, and I will not be asking anyone to transfer to a less populated server on my behalf.

I have created a character on Behemoth, (can log into that server about 1/3 of the time), but am ultimately aware that the prospect of character transfer to Excalibur is remote. In my case, playing with my group of guild friends is what I want to do. This is a frustrating issue; a deal breaker. I will absolutely not support this game beyond this month unless server loads are increased this week or an Auto Kicker is implemented this week.

Wildstar will be out in 6 mos or so. Looks like I may be finding another gaming option to keep me busy in the meantime.

I find it rather foolish, perhaps just ignorant of how players behave these days, that SE is just "adding new servers" not solving the main issues.

The limit of char creation is a fine idea -if they also go through and make sure everyone only has 1 character to begin with. Otherwise it's not helping.

I have 6 friends waiting to purchase the game until we can create toons on the same world server, because like you - we don't see the point in playing unless we can do it together.. you know... as a MMORPG is supposed to be played.

Char transfers need to exist ASAP to help resolve the congestion problem, not just "new servers" Those of us that actually got in because of plans to stay on one server or another - only to realize it's COMPLETELY FULL and friends won't be able to join it - (like me) shouldn't be forced to "start over" because of oversights made by SE and company.

[Kissker]

great now it seems the NA/EU world list won't load , then when it does, amazingly nothing changes.

Lol the support for AFK kicker has increased about 10fold in the last day.



nearly 1000 players were AFK in the 'starting zones' around the Aether shards, that's a lot of slots that COULD be used!