A Simple Quick Band Aid fix

[PocketFox]

This is the best solution that should have been implemented by now. Any player that remains in the same zone for more than 30 minutes, even if they are walking against a wall, typing, performing or rearranging their HUD should be instantly kicked and given a 1 hour login penalty.

Add exceptions to End Credits, Eureka/Bozja/Zadnor, and current EX trials and you fixed the login problems with one simple trick.

It... it takes longer than thirty minutes to quest through a zone, to actively play the game, especially if you take into account cutscenes. Unless you specifically mean rest zones such as cities, but that's still not fair because, as someone else pointed out, what about crafters? Or what about places like Old Sharlayan which is a city and quite a bit of the starting story takes place there? They're playing the game in ways it's intended to be played and they should be punished for that?

[lezard21]

It... it takes longer than thirty minutes to quest through a zone, to actively play the game, especially if you take into account cutscenes. Unless you specifically mean rest zones such as cities, but that's still not fair because, as someone else pointed out, what about crafters? Or what about places like Old Sharlayan which is a city and quite a bit of the starting story takes place there? They're playing the game in ways it's intended to be played and they should be punished for that?

More exceptions can be added like 1 hour in EW areas, I just cited some examples.

Crafter can be done at a later time after Early Access. It's not a priority.

[PocketFox]

More exceptions can be added like 1 hour in EW areas, I just cited some examples.

Crafter can be done at a later time after Early Access. It's not a priority.

It's not a priority to you. You want to dictate how others are allowed to play the game, or saying that SE should dictate how players are allowed to play the game. That's not a viable solution.

[lezard21]

You want to dictate how others are allowed to play the game,

People are already dictating how you are allowed to play the game.

Botters and afkers have dictated that you are not allowed to play the game by using exploits and 3rd party programs to keep you out.

What other option do you propose since Square Enix is not showing any intentions of upgrading their servers any time soon?

Your solution punishes those who truly wish to play more than it punishes those who are abusing the system.

I don't think any suggestion can punish people that truly wish to play more than how people that abuse the system punish them. They literally cannot play and has been that way for 3 days now.

[Soulebreaker]

People are already dictating how you are allowed to play the game.

Botters and afkers have dictated that you are not allowed to play the game by using exploits and 3rd party programs to keep you out.

What other option do you propose since Square Enix is not showing any intentions of upgrading their servers any time soon?

I've never had my time in game limited by bots and afkers.

The solution until they get it worked out is to wait. It's the same with every major MMO release. That's all you can do. They at least gave you extra sub time and promise more if there are still issues in a week. Blizz didn't do that for Vanilla Classic.

[lezard21]

The solution until they get it worked out is to wait.

While our sub time is ticking and after we've already purchased the expansion

They at least gave you extra sub time

Which I'm not currently able to enjoy regardless due to the problem not being fixed. 7 free days of not being able to play does not compensate for 7 paid days in which I was not able to play.

[Soulebreaker]

While our sub time is ticking and after we've already purchased the expansion


Which I'm not currently able to enjoy regardless due to the problem not being fixed. 7 free days of not being able to play does not compensate for 7 paid days in which I was not able to play.

An extra week was added to your sub time so not while it's ticking away.

And everyone is in the same boat with you. Angering more players is not a solution.

[Seera1024]

People are already dictating how you are allowed to play the game.

Botters and afkers have dictated that you are not allowed to play the game by using exploits and 3rd party programs to keep you out.

What other option do you propose since Square Enix is not showing any intentions of upgrading their servers any time soon?



I don't think any suggestion can punish people that truly wish to play more than how people that abuse the system punish them. They literally cannot play and has been that way for 3 days now.

Considering the queues drop down to normal during off peak times, I doubt there are huge numbers of players exploiting the systems. At least not more than would be punished by your gameplay.

Sorry, can't help with that boss fate. Have to go to another map so I don't get kicked and get an hour lock out. This would happen.

Player has been waiting for hours for a fate to pop on a popular map and that fate drops quickly. Pops while they are switching to another map and back to avoid being kicked out for multiple times the fate has popped.

Player so engrossed with the story they lose track of time and get booted with an hour lockout all because they got immersed in the story.

[Kes13a]

More exceptions can be added like 1 hour in EW areas, I just cited some examples.

Crafter can be done at a later time after Early Access. It's not a priority.

well, in your playstyle maybe it isnt a priority, but not everyone is you.

people play mmo's or any game for a variety of reasons.

why not say lalafels are not a priority because they are too short to see the sights anyway. so between 5 am and 10 pm they are not allowed to log in. pint sized characters are not a priority.

[Avidria]

More exceptions can be added like 1 hour in EW areas, I just cited some examples.

Crafter can be done at a later time after Early Access. It's not a priority.

If you have to have an arm's length list of exceptions to a "solution" then it's not a good solution

The only good solution in OP at all is queue priority for people kicked by 2002 errors. Another fix (with the disclaimer that I'm not sure this is possible either) is to actually keep people's place in the queue for longer so it isn't constantly kicking people to the back of line.

The queues are a self perpetuating problem. The queues are long because a lot of people want to play, but a lot of people don't want to log out because the queues are long, and the waits are made even worse because of the errors kicking people all the way to the end of line, which makes people not want to log off, which keeps the queues long...

Limiting people's playtime based on arbitrary definitions of any one person's definition of "acceptable use of playtime" is both unrealistic and imo far more likely to do harm than good.