Rationing Playtime - An Unpleasant Sounding Temporary Solution

[Doc_Seraph]

I'm sure there are some out there who've wrangled a basic VB script to quote shakespeare to their summoning bell)

“To sell, or not to sell? That is the question—Whether 'tis nobler in the pocket to suffer the coins and ventures of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of bots, And, by opposing, undercut them? "

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[Lunalepsy]

Not many people will like this idea.

[Lium]

And then most likely come back in smaller waves. Like has always happened before. With every single expansion.

Why the community is acting like this is outside the norm is beyond me. It's just scaled up from the same exact issue every expansion the game has. Either deal with it, or unsub. There is basically nothing Square can do at this point.

Be patient, and in a week or two the queues will start to come down. Or don't, and unsub, and come back later. The game isn't going anywhere.

Or could've done what many of us did and took time off and cleared our schedules to adjust for the mass chaos that we all knew would come.

I agree with you mostly. But where I disagree is that this launch is quite different than previous expansions because of the surge of players that happened earlier this year. Shadowbringers launch had a queue but it was NOTHING like this.

The main difference between then and now is FFXIV is now essentially the market leader in MMOs. As Yoshi has stated numerous times now this has been the largest amount of people trying to login in the history of the game.

So the comparisons to previous expansions are not apt at all. And while I think the numbers will come down, I think the queues may still be significant even a month from now. But honestly that’s a good problem for the game to have. Suck for us, though.

[Tridus]

I mean, set the number high and there's some value here. There's not much risk of people using tools to AFK for 12 hours before playing if they're going to get booted for the day after 6.

It's pretty drastic and almost certainly not going to happen, but after a couple of nights of not getting in at all while some clown on Reddit boasts about using a bot to AFK all day to save themselves a spot? I'm game for pretty much anything that isn't the status quo.

[Felixforever]

I would be okay with a 16 hours logged in and mandatory 8 hours off...