A Simple Quick Band Aid fix

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Obligatory INAL disclaimer, but I'm pretty sure this would actually be breaking a contractual agreement. You pay for a sub. Aside from maintenance, you are allowed to access the game any time you want. As pissed as people are now, watch them froth at the mouth and demand refunds if you tell them they can only play three hours a day.

[PocketFox]

Force a player to log out after 3 hours of gameplay. I.E they can't que for dungeons, raids, or progress in story. Also add priority for long time subscribers, 2000+ days of subscribed as well as legacy players given automatic priority. Ban people (including streamers) using third party tech to by pass the afk automatic log out timers. Also add a queue placement priority for players that are kicked due to timing out in queue or 2002 out of queue.

Honestly quick simple fixes that could be done on SE developer end and probably something streamers don't like, but honestly, everyone pays to play this game not just streamers.

Not even getting into the ridiculousness of punishing people with an arbitrary time limit (screw your dungeon/trial, you hit 3hrs, time to go in time out), I'm just going to point out your math:

2,000 days is not quite 5 and half years. By your logic, only people who have been playing since about mid 2016 -- Heavensward 3.3 -- should get "priority". I've been playing since September 2014 -- ARR 2.3 -- so I would clear your hurdle, but why do I deserve to play more than my friend who started in Stormblood, someone who is just as dedicated and now just as established and committed as I am? What about the people who chose to or had to unsub for a while at some point? Why do they not deserve to play just as much as someone with the financial security to stay constantly subscribed for, again, five and a half years.

ETA: Another part of the problem with threads like this one is that they're all suggesting things that would amount to long term, permanent changes to the game and/or its code for what is, at its heart, a temporary problem.

[Bsrking5]

Yup. Ppl forget that the active economy and active community is what makes this game thrive. Not the MSQ and duties

I've hardly seen pf, usually less then 30. Most of which are leveling parties. Where are these other people? For a short time like early access it'll help out since even most of the usual rp crowd is also focused on MSQ or leveling or sitting on log in queue.

[Clicked]

I've seen a lot of bad ideas in this forum, but this one is really up there. 3 hours is not that much time.

24 hours I could see. Basically force people to log off to go to sleep. But many people are actively playing for well over 3 hours, barring a few breaks here and there.

[Sclair0]

Nah, limited play time is something Im cool with when sold as a demo, but never something that should be applied retroactively.

[Ralseitale]

This is so selfish lol, just do something else for like 2 days. Or just reque right away, I've had literally 0 issues with queue outside of the crashes.

[Larirawiel]

Force a player to log out after 3 hours of gameplay.

They had something similar in FF14 1.x. It did not end very well for them.

Cheers

[Sotaris]

They could had scheduled server reboots like in SB. But I think we seen the worsed of it tbf.

[White_Wolf_X]

[KitKatnip]

OP, I see that your overall goal here is to get the majority of players to permanently quit the game thereby eliminating the login queue.