Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[RichardButte]

I can't imagine that this will actually do much...
I mean, after all the people cram to log back in, the AFKers will just go back to AFKing for another 24 hours...

I don't mind the 10 min downtime since it's scheduled and we can plan around it...

But I'd rather they only did this on problem realms, and I agree with the quoted statement: people will just log back in after the reboot and go back to AFKing.

Though, they have to try something because AFKing IS getting out of hand on a number of servers.

I don't understand why people just leave their computers on all damn day like they do.

Clearly, we're not talking about people who pay the electricity bills, here... :P

[Mature]

I fully support the idea the amount of AFK in our servers are ridiculous.

What's the point of being AFK anyway?

[HyoMinPark]

Reporting from Cactuar (Aether), 12pm PST was when I saw the announcement that everyone was going to be kicked.
Not during NA Prime Time, but by the time I get back in, I won't have much time to do more scrip turn-ins before they reset. All I can do is hope the ones that I have starred now stay starred because I was on a roll with my crafting and gathering scrips. :/

[Bloodrayne2452]

Well it happened. And I was leaving a MSQ dungeon quest and was trying to watch the CS quickly before it kicked me out. But it was long and didn't happen. So now I'm pissed because it kicked me out during a CS. Thanks a lot afk'ers. >.>

[Mycow8me]

I never have a login problem on cactuar at any time of the day, most I've waited is less than 5 minutes. There's literally no reason to do this to the whole datacenter when they are able to selectively reset/maintenance single servers at a time.

Get it together SE, you have overpopulated servers that need REAL solutions and you have servers that are just fine. This is a very bad solution and you know it.

[AsahinaMyLove]

Why Siren Server TOO?! We dont have login issues1 Longest wait time I had was 3mins and that was 1x at 1st day of free play campaign and never agian ! >_>

[Fendred]

This countermeasure makes no sense even for congested worlds. If a person just got into the game ten minutes before the logout after waiting three hours in the queue, that isn't fair to that player. Instead, they need to seriously amp up those incentives for jumping ship on congested servers. Like, give people a boatload of Gil, tomestones, free gear, exp boosts and so forth. Ten gold chocobo feathers and no limit to transfered gil doesn't compensate the player for the loss of leaving these servers.

[Aronys]

I know. We didn't get that message, so the logouts is not on all of the data centers at the same time, unlike maintenance.

[NewSinz]

They really just need to fix their server structure. Thats how this gets fixed. I cant believe so many are ok with this lol.

[KisaiTenshi]

They really just need to fix their server structure. Thats how this gets fixed. I cant believe so many are ok with this lol.

You can't keep throwing hardware at a problem. Eventually you reach a point where the cost is unlimited or the benefit is insignificant.

For example a lot of "cloud" infrastructure is this way. It is not cost effective to move into the cloud, it's always more cost effective to buy your own equipment. BUT that comes with the caveat that the equipment price is always going down and you are always growing. If you are not growing then your hardware purchase sits mothballed. That's why many startups start with the cloud and then move out of it as quickly as possible. The costs and latency of cloud services is nearly 100X more than owning the hardware.

The problem tried to be solved here is not a hardware problem it's a people problem. If it were a hardware problem that could be sovled, they would be folding small servers into each other to save costs, therefor that is not it.