Casual players locked out of FFXIV for indefinite time!

[Ardeth]

Who the heck wants a playtime restriction? What is this China? All that would do is cause even more frustration, and would barely help the queues - especially since a lot of these people who are logging in for their 8 hours are logging in at the same time. At best it would log out some professional afkers.

Maybe the afkers are the problem also maybe it's people playing for 15 hours a days. Personally I don't care what people do in their free time. I was just spitballing. And you in kind likened it to China and got all hot and bothered about it. You did bring up a good point though about people all logging in at the same time that I didn't think of. But what would you do to fix it?

[SturmChurro]

Maybe the afkers are the problem also maybe it's people playing for 15 hours a days. Personally I don't care what people do in their free time. I was just spitballing. And you in kind likened it to China and got all hot and bothered about it. You did bring up a good point though about people all logging in at the same time that I didn't think of. But what would you do to fix it?

It's not. Since they are afk during off-peak hours as well. The problem is everyone logging in en masse during peak hours.

[Ardeth]

It's not. Since they are afk during off-peak hours as well. The problem is everyone logging in en masse during peak hours.

Agreed, so what is your solution?

I'm not trying to be rude I'm just curious how you would fix the issue. Outside of using 3rd party software to get it done. Because the average player is going to try to login and not be able to. And a lot of them and I mean a lot of them aren't going to jump through hoops to play something that they paid for.

[SturmChurro]

Agreed, so what is your solution?

I'm not trying to be rude I'm just curious how you would fix the issue. Outside of using 3rd party software to get it done. Because the average player is going to try to login and not be able to. And a lot of them and I mean a lot of them aren't going to jump through hoops to play something that they paid for.

There is no easy solution. Even if SE were to solve 2002, the real issue still is the thousands upon thousands of players trying to log in at the same time - hours in queue. The only thing to do is wait, or somehow convince everyone to spread out their play schedules (log-in time). It will be like this for a good while yet; until everyone stops logging in at the same time. Many will sooner than later start filing out after doing what they wanted in Endwalker as well. Draconian measures will only add to the frustration of players.