Institute Temporary AFK Kick Timer

[Saisha]

Agreed. Every time I go to sleep at night, I think of staying log in, then hate myself for even having the though. I always log out and then am unable to log-in the next morning, though, eventually I do get in.

The most annoying thing for me is getting in the queue finally, then being kicked with 1017 at the end of it. Makes me want to flip my 150 pound desk.

Edit: AS I TYPED THIS POST, I GOT IN!

[rockman0]

Was doing a date and saw someone AFKing at the Amaljaa encampment. They definitely need a timer to combat this.

[ThunderCat]

In the meantime while you're contemplating whether or not an afk timer will or will not be added why don't you at least remove the 1017 gate and simply put us in a que? I wouldn't mind if I was #1000 in the que; just knowing that my login actually counted is a bit of reassurance rather than just saying "try again later". If I play the click-click-login game anymore I'm gonna break my mouse. An immediate temporary solution is in demand: The que system needs to be consistent to ALL login attempts rather than the random dice roll that it is currently.

[Jethero]

An AFK timer would be amazing. Even if the world still fills up and I can't log on, at least I know there's turnover happening and others can play in lieu of those that are AFKing for too long.

[Hairspray]

People forget FFXI had this.... it was set to Auto-Disconnect after 15 minutes by default... you could turn it off but most people didn't know how, so it kept the concurrent connections to the server manageable. Why would anyone be opposed to this?

[Misiah]

People forget FFXI had this.... *snip*

As I recall it was first optional, and second customizable - not hard set to 15 minutes. That would be incredibly rediculous.

People are acting as if auto booting a small number of afkers would suddenly make it so they didn't have to wait in que to get in game. Check out the numbers of concurrent users that they've posted. They weren't ready for this. People log out and immediately their spot is taken, and people are still waiting.

The priority needs to be on making it possible to have MANY more concurrent users and fixing the duty finder so people aren't sitting around waiting on it. AFKing (literal) isn't as big an issue as some are making it.

I have characters on 4 different servers and haven't seen afkers in any large number... in fact I haven't seen any.

[Sebazy]

Because for many, XIV is as much a chat client as it is a game?

An FFXI style configurable auto disconnect would make sense but fixing the queue system would make far more sense. I can only assume that it's hosted on the same cluster that handles exchanging characters between the various zone and duty servers (The weak link that by my reckoning, caused all the early access failures and character lockouts in P4), hence why it's been dialled down to near nothing.

Please try to remember that not once has in-zone performance been an issue even in Ul'dah where the idle players are at their highest ratio.

[Sebazy]

Oh and 8pm BST, I just logged into Ragnarok first try, no 1017, no queue. Go me

[Smashcore]

When they do the "adjustments" next week, whatever they may be, and the issue of server congestion becomes non-existent, then an AFK Auto Disconnect would become inconsequential. That would mean they just wasted $2000 that could have been spent on something else (the $2000 is just a guess based on an average developers pay and time that would be spent, my guess would be around 8 hours. And that's IF it works properly the first time). Waiting for next week to see if this is something they will need for the long term is a good decision. It's crappy for the people who can't get in but they have already stopped people from buying digital downloads to help with this issue and spending money on something risky is...well, risky. I own a business of my own and I understand some of these decisions and I would only ask that you also try to understand why they are doing what they do.

[ThunderCat]

This is damn ridiculous now. I just want to play the game I have pre-paid for and already pre-subbed! Can I please log in to the damn game already? Is that too much to ask? You have my money now give me my product. I feel like I drove 1,017 miles to a resort hotel I already had booked and paid for and them telling me when I get there that they have no vacancies. This is frustrating as hell! I'm not one of those cry babies that whine about "this game is too easy" or "the grass doesn't look real enough" or "bards suck" or "we need SSM in the game". I'm just a simple paying customer and I want to be treated like one.

ok, rant over. I guess I'll get back to the log-in clickety-click-game *crosses fingers*