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[ChanceSkeleton]

This kind of thinking is why MMOs do not retain customers. Your first impression is your best and truly only impression. FFXIV was lucky enough to get a second chance at a first impression, and blew that one too.

You're right, but this is from a purely financial perspective. I don't work in the industry so I don't have hard numbers, but I'm sure there is a number cruncher out there that has it figured out that it's cheaper to lose subs in the short term in favor of NOT spending the money required to maintain subs that would have quit after a month anyways. The cost benefit analysis on the entire genre must have been done to death already, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt in thinking they know what they are doing (from a economics perspective).

Kinda like that. Will it "fix" the problem? Hell no. But it'll help.

I agree with you that longer queues (or a working queue) would solve a lot of the PR related issues with 1017. But I don't think there is much difference between getting a 1017 and a 4 hour queue. For the end user, both blow balls.

As for auto DC, anyone that is afking right now can very easily find a way to bypass auto DC with the use of a workspace macro. It'll help... maybe... but the majority of the AFKers now will continue to afk while jumping up and down or running into a wall.

EDIT: okay, wow, daily limit on posts just because my main isn't high enough level? Sheesh. Can't carry a real conversation in these forums.