Quote Originally Posted by Rita1989 View Post
this mass log off is a band aid which definitely helped the problem but not a proper fix still saw people back on AFK immediately afterwords but I was able to switch characters around 5pm and took about 30 minutes when the queue was taking 2-3 hours before.

SE is unable or unwilling to actually fix the AFK exploit
Any 'proper' fix would take development time and testing time, and wouldn't be able to help with the issue now.

A proper fix still needs to be implemented, but this 'band aid' fix will serve to alleviate some of the issues in the meantime.