Rationing Playtime - An Unpleasant Sounding Temporary Solution

[Seera1024]

It will also cause issues in any party content.

The new tank who isn't comfortable with big pulls gets more pressure to do so because now he's "wasting the playtime" of other players.

A new player messing up mechanics is more likely to be kicked so that they can get someone new who may do better to avoid spending all of their allotment in that dungeon or trial or whatever.

[Lanadra]

''Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.'' -Spock

Ergo, why should the majority of people who manage to get through the queue and log in, or sideline the queue by logging in before the pile on begins, then be punished with 'your allotment of 3 hours are up, out you go.'? I've said it in a similar thread, as long as I am actively playing the game, SE has no business telling me to log out after 3 hours, or worse, doing it for me. If I'm afk and get booted by the timer, entirely fair. But rationing? No.

[Lihtleita]

op are you ok? you only post bad ideas in some weird way to get ppl to talk to you. do you need friends?

[Catwho]

Not sure why every assumption is that people are "afk botting" all day. I'm sure there are some out there who've wrangled a basic VB script to quote shakespeare to their summoning bell, but a lot of us now work from home and it's trivial to set a timer for 25 minutes to poke your game manually.

I craft and gather during my breaks in the daytime hours. I can't run dungeons or any other more time demanding content until I'm off work, but I'm doing the most selfish tasks during the off hours when the queue is the standard "load no more than 100 people at a time" hours (mine was 44 when I logged in.) Then sticking with group content when my friends can log in, so the get the benefit of me playing. And then logged off pretty early to free up a slot. (I've gone to bed earlier in the last week than I had in the last year.)

[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...