Players staying logged in for days - AUTO-KICK THE AFK'ERS

[Recon7]

because it's wildly obnoxious that you, and like 50k others are running over the tech support forums with your QQs and FIX IT SE and "this is how I would have done it" or "LAWSUITSS!!!11!" threads, while entirely burying legitimate technical issue threads.

SE knows about the issue. you're not going to make it progress any faster.

Listen, I have played MMO's for about 16 years, been at most of the AAA title launches, betas and alphas, I appreciate teething issues. I am not moaning for the sake of moaning. I am not trying to come off like some self entitled whingy kid. I am merly making an observation about the lack of an AFK kick, and how, in my opinion it might help the issue. I am not QQ'ing, I am not mentioning lawsuites (that really is retarded)

So I humbly appologise if I came across that way while trying to make a decent suggestion.

This is a community forum, one voice get's lost in the masses which is why the community has to voice it's opinion AS A WHOLE.

[Budi]

There should never be a need for AFK kick.

The only reason people want it (or think they need it) is because they cant log-in.
And the reason people can't login is because SE is too cheap to buy more servers.
And the reason they don't buy more servers is because they know that a big chunk people will stop playing after the first month or two.

[Kort]

Listen, I have played MMO's for about 16 years, been at most of the AAA title launches, betas and alphas, I appreciate teething issues. I am not moaning for the sake of moaning. I am not trying to come off like some self entitled whingy kid. I am merly making an observation about the lack of an AFK kick, and how, in my opinion it might help the issue. I am not QQ'ing, I am not mentioning lawsuites (that really is retarded)

So I humbly appologise if I came across that way while trying to make a decent suggestion.

This is a community forum, one voice get's lost in the masses which is why the community has to voice it's opinion AS A WHOLE.

Ignore people like Ameroth. They are no different than you or anyone else who has any issue with how SE has handles these issues. They claim to have NO problems with what SE is doing but yet they are on the Technical Support thread for what reason then? It's to complain to YOU. You can't complain about SE, but they are allowed to make thread and answer posts to complain about YOU. They read the title and they could choose to not even open the topic because they know it wil be people complaining. You gotta love self-righteous people like him.

[Ahmed]

I played it almost the entire weekend up to 24+ hours at one point, zero disconnections.

Also what a surprise, someone that AFK's says not to blame AFK'ers and shouldn't be kicked for AFK'ing.

I don't afk. As I said I am one of those who are always having problems logging in. Maybe your server is not as crowded as mine or not having as much problems as mine does. It is frustrating. As I said, you pay for a month to be able to be on the game for a month. The problem is not the people who afk but the capacity of the server. If things were done right there should not have been more character creations than the server could handle no?

That is why I don't think it is necessary to blame someone who afks for a technical problem that has to do with the game server.

I don't need to AFK in this game, it is not FFXI. You don't need to camp shouts nor do you need to use Bazaar. But honestly? If I knew I would have a hard time getting back on and maybe not be able to get back on at all, I would rather stay afk in there.

[Ahmed]

Yep. haven't been able to log in for some two days now. Before that it was possible even with the errors. So my guess is that more and more ppl are staying afk in server. So afk kick is a must. Or just do some server restarts at specific times (just don't do it random for Gods sake else the forum will explode again).

Cuz the servers actually are not going down. as much as i know they have been pretty much up all the days. Even during the maintenance they actually stay up. You can get kicked when you change the areas or go in dungs in the moment of loading (around the maintenance times). But if you just stay in one place then it is no problem actually. So i bet that most of the ques are actually because of afk ppl... but ohh well.. let's see how it goes

I partially agree with this. Kick people who have been afk for say.. 1 hour, but not as a permenant feature, don't use it as a mask to cover the problem at hand.
But do that until you fix it then remove the penalty.

[NintenPyjak64]

Wind your neck in mate. Headstrong Jest? There is nothing jovial about my post. Perhaps if enough people moan or "bitch" as you say then SE will listen. If you have nothing to contribute then do one please, nobody asked you.

I wasn't trying to be original, how can you be with a problem like this. Perhaps if there was a decent statement from SE acknowledging the issue (and I mean the AFK issue here) then people wouldn't be complaining.

Good god... A single post with a thousand comments is more effective then a thousand threads with a few comments... seriously how many times am I going to have to say this?

[Foguelo]

Also what a surprise, someone that AFK's says not to blame AFK'ers and shouldn't be kicked for AFK'ing.

I believe he is trying to argue the side of those that AFK. I know people that AFK for days, but some of us (me for example) log out when I'm going to be away from the game for a longer period of time (while I sleep). However, it seems silly to me to log out for a 30-45 min. lunch or dinner to then come back and spend an hour+ trying to log back in. If I were confident that an AFK timer would solve the "world server is full" issue I would be all for it; I'm just not at that confidence level yet. In reality most people probably wouldn't complain about afkers if they could log in on a consistant basis as well.

[bwalker36]

and what makes me seriously pissed is they are more concerned about Duty Finders then "people being able to get online and play what they paid for"

Resolving AFK Character Issues

From several users on some of our more congested Worlds, we have received requests for a feature which automatically logs out characters who are AFK for an extended period of time. We are actively looking into the implementation of such a feature, but have decided to first concentrate our efforts on increasing the number of Worlds and optimizing the Duty Finder servers.

this means they decided "screw you congested worlds, your done, were gonna make new worlds and optimize an in-game feature that you aren't accessing anyway"

Did you ever think the duty finder queue system is linked to the login queue system and enhancements to one means better log in experience. It is amazing how dense people are. I know half of you are trolls but sometimes its just really silly.

[Recon7]

Good god... A single post with a thousand comments is more effective then a thousand threads with a few comments... seriously how many times am I going to have to say this?

You raise a valid point, but the first 3 pages of this forum do not have a single post with AFK'ers in the title. I'm not about to trawl the entire forum opening every post to find a thread relating to this issue.

[Kissker]

The suggestion to have an AFK Program was put into the forums day 1 by me, including a "Captcha related entry system" to prevent botting/macro use to avoid being kicked.

The simple fact is most people don't read a darn thing before posting. Then they like to think "they were the first" when they do post, and at this point it's been a full week of burying (and I think it was removed... I can't even find my history of it! lol)

Does it need done - YES, I think we all agree (except those that AFK regularly) just like any MMORPG in today's world. Will it get made? MAYBE - but not until after the new worlds are up and running (already been confirmed by SE and company, they will "look into a program later")