Massive amounts of players skipping AFK auto kick and idling in game

[Bocajjjjj]

Date & Time: 12:38 PM 12/12/2021
Frequency: Consistent
World name: Midgardsormr
Character name: Kite Kabukicho

This is a plea to work against players skipping the afk kick making the queues stagnate to a terrible level. Anyone can download OP auto clicker / Razer synapse or many other macro software and simply click a skill every 10 seconds with it or make it move around and click a hot bar button. When I say anyone can do this, I mean everyone is doing this.

Yes I believe this is already against ToS but as we all know it's not detectable by the game client. I'm not asking for anyone to be banned or anything crazy, I just want to ensure that this is known and it will be absolutely terrible if everyone just does this to never log out and is allowed to do so.

[sevendog_]

In times like this, I think there should be a limit on a login session being x hours long. And I'm talking like, 24 hours, not anything single digit.
There's no reason someone should be online for longer than 24 hours at this point with the congestion.

I see people on discord with "in game for x days".


But hey, that's just my opinion.

[SillyCrow]

I see people on discord with "in game for x days".

You could get that just from idling on the title screen. That's not really evidence of anything.

[auronrenouille]

If you haven't spoken to a PC player that has told you exactly what they're doing to avoid the AFK kick then honestly you're not paying attention.

[Eriane_Elis]

It's impossible to prove that someone is dodging AFK timers. They could be chatting, they could be in a house crafting, decorating etc... There's a million and one reasons why someone might appear to be AFK but aren't. Likewise, is it against the ToS? I don't believe there has been an official statement on this considering Yoshi P did mention that third party tools are fine given that they don't affect other players. HOWEVER, this technically could affect other players. I'm just playing the devil's advocate but people are saying it's against the ToS but it probably isn't. Official confirmation on this would be nice though. Also, discord is really buggy and so is steam. I run FF14 as an external application in steam and it never seems to close the game. I don't know if it keeps track as a counter somewhere but when I close the game, it still shows as running even though it isn't. :P

[shandreax]

If SE servers where able to handle the number of copies of the game they sold this problem would not be an issue. But yes people avoiding being kicked is making an already horrible problem worse. I am bored sitting in queue watching it barely drop over the last few hours and random 2002 error is beyond BS.