Can we maybe hold off on the Welcome Back Campaign?

[Bayohne]

Greetings,

As others in this thread have pointed out, the Welcome Back to Eorzea campaign is not a chance for previous players to log in for free. It simply offers some bonuses for returning during this period (the Silver Chocobo Feathers). Hopefully that clears it up!

[Gramul]

Greetings,

As others in this thread have pointed out, the Welcome Back to Eorzea campaign is not a chance for previous players to log in for free. It simply offers some bonuses for returning during this period (the Silver Chocobo Feathers). Hopefully that clears it up!

That's...still an incentive. It encourages people to join the game at a time where the servers are being assaulted by an already large influx of users.

That didn't really address the point at all. Monty didn't say anything about it being free.

[Shougun]

Not that I have too many classes that would benefit from ilvl120 but I kind of want some ilvl120 gear... lol. If you're going to cause me more time not being able to login (bringing back players who weren't playing, this will cause more stress xD) then at least give me the goodies that people who weren't paying are now getting. >.> lol

Although as Gramul pointed out, the cost wasn't the point, the point was never getting back into your server to play, or in my case logging back into Balmung after receiving a 9002 in a dungeon, felt pretty bad but I couldn't get back in. Glad there are at least enough new tanks that losing a tank doesn't really mean too much - wish you can send mail cross servers I'd send I'm sowwie cookies.

[Shori]

So, can those who continously subscribe and pay for your team to keep their jobs also get the silver feathers? Can we even get better measures in terms of data centre load to allow us to play?
Even my cat is looking disappointed at SE right now (well she always looked disappointed/depressed but thats besides the point)

[CGMidlander]

Nah, their hamsters are ready.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

Yesterday I saw a crafter in idle mode who was clearly not crafting. What's the official word about reporting these kinds of players?

[Culfinrandir]

Nah, their hamsters are ready.

I forgot how evil flat IDE cables were. XD

[Dischordia]

Yesterday I saw a crafter in idle mode who was clearly not crafting. What's the official word about reporting these kinds of players?

You want to report people for being in idle mode? I'm sorry, but I think that is stupid to report someone because of that. They could be going to the bathroom, getting something to eat, or whatever. I think we should just leave the people who are in idle mode alone and let the game timer kick them off the server when they've not being active for a certain amount of time.

[DragonFlyy]

Yesterday I saw a crafter in idle mode who was clearly not crafting. What's the official word about reporting these kinds of players?

Did they re-implenment the auto log out feature? If not then there is nothing to report. Even with the auto log out, I don't think there is anything to report since this is exactly what happened during 2.0 launch when they created the auto log out feature.

[Krylo]

Yesterday I saw a crafter in idle mode who was clearly not crafting. What's the official word about reporting these kinds of players?

AFK kicks help with queues, but make the actual problem--2006/5006 lobby server errors--worse.

The lobby server isn't kicking you/refusing to connect you because of too many people in game. It's kicking you because of too many concurrent login attempts. So if someone is evading the AFK timer because they have to get up for 30-40 minutes, and you report them, and they get kicked offline, you've made the lobby server errors worse because that's another person spamming logins increasing the concurrent log in attempts and causing more 2006/5006 lobby server connection errors.

If the issue with people getting on were the long queues I'd be more sympathetic to this post, but it's not. They exist, but most people aren't really complaining about the 10-20 minute queues so much as the hour spent restarting the client to try to log in only to get hit by lobby server errors, or having lobby server errors pop up in the middle of their queue to get into their ACTUAL server.