Why did they stop kicking out afks like they used to

[Noox-115]

I am not talking about persons that are afks waiting for a their duty to pop I am talking about people that take place 24/7 on the servers to do nothing. Don't get me wrong there is no hate here. It's just quite bothering during event like we have rn where the cities are crowded and sure they get purge when the event over and they do a maintenance kicking everyone out. I'm just curious why they removed that it's not like it take a long time to log in

[MisterNublet]

Because the game would be empty otherwise.

[Noox-115]

but isn't a good thing tho?

[Musashidon]

but isn't a good thing tho?

that person is just trolling.

the reason is because the only time you need to kick afkers is if there isn't enough server space to fit everyone and it boosts login q times.

[Noox-115]

It's surprising usually online games kick people out to prevents that from even happening in the first place? I know when I started playing 2 years ago it was 10 min afk = kick

[Musashidon]

It's surprising usually online games kick people out to prevents that from even happening in the first place? I know when I started playing 2 years ago it was 10 min afk = kick

yea at the start of all the expansions they have made the afk kick timer but remove it as q times vanish.

lots of online games don't use afk kick timers but on the same hand plenty of them do it's really up to the devs if they want something like that in their game. and honestly the problem only happens in the begining of an expansion no reason to have it when it's not needed, some players like to be online 24/7 that's their business.

[Jojoya]

It's surprising usually online games kick people out to prevents that from even happening in the first place? I know when I started playing 2 years ago it was 10 min afk = kick

It's never been as low as 10 minutes. It's always been a 30 minute cutoff for autokick when active.

I'm going to guess that you started around Endwalker launch. New expansion released are the one period when they automatically use the auto-kick. How long it remains active depends on how long the congestion continues across the different worlds. Generally it will be 1-2 months.

Outside of the periods of extreme congestion, it's rarely the number of players already online that are causing the log-in queues. The log-in queues are caused by SE throttling how many log-ins are being processed at the same time to keep the log-in servers stable.

Unless world servers are so packed that more players are unable to get onto the servers, the autokick isn't needed. A lot of players prefer seeing the cities crowded even if many of those players are AFK.

[Swordsman]

but isn't a good thing tho?

Not for SE. SE wants FFXIV to have the image that the game is alive and bustling with players so they can attract new players (for more money). They'll do what they can to achieve that even if it means creating that image artificially via players being allowed to stand around for an indefinite amount of time.

[Noox-115]

Not for SE. SE wants FFXIV to have the image that the game is alive and bustling with players so they can attract new players (for more money). They'll do what they can do achieve that even if it means creating that image artificially via players being allowed to stand around for an indefinite amount of time.

I can actually believe that yeah because I was kind of thinking about that

[NekoMataMata]

Not for SE. SE wants FFXIV to have the image that the game is alive and bustling with players so they can attract new players (for more money). They'll do what they can to achieve that even if it means creating that image artificially via players being allowed to stand around for an indefinite amount of time.

This makes logical sense but you can't really blame them for it. Pretty sure anyone in their position would do the same. Games, forums, discords, whatever. People in charge of most anything like to boost the activity by any means possible.