booting idle players

[InjaTheNinja]

Even if you're queued for a dungeon, you can still do other things so going AFK is no excuse even for that. Besides, you still have to be there to accept when the window finally pops up.

One hour. One hour is enough time to start on RL responsibilities before checking on the computer. If it takes longer than that, you're probably better off logging out and coming back once everything is taken care of. What about people who set up macros to get around any AFK timer? They're botting and should be removed just like any other bot. What if they've just set something against a button so it's constantly being pressed? That's trickier, but still cheating around a system designed to make the game a little more playable.

It's not like people who are away for 10+ hours will miss out on anything by being moved back to the character select screen. They weren't even there to see anything happen.

[BBEXPRESS]

Next time i am able to get in (although looks like next year) im never logging out fuck this game and the designers they just cant pull there heads out of there fucking asses.

[ErikMynhier]

All these gold sellers that spam the chat logs, you would think some mods somewhere could be knocking these guys out, make room for honest players.

[Casttar]

I agree with the other posts. Boot the inactive players after a reasonable amount of time, say 45-60 minutes. No reason for someone to take up world space while they sleep or do whatever they please rather than playing the game.

[aname]

i totally agree with the whole booting AFK players. but i think maybe half an hour would be a little bit better don't you all think. i mean come on we all have to go do something at one point of another. lets say that your mom or dad need u for something and it takes a little bit longer then u hoped but it wasn't a ridiculous amount of time. wouldnt you be upset.I really like the idea of the booting once again lol. i hate trying to log in with the little time im awake cause i work nights. and with all these idle players wanting to save there spot it makes it very difficult for me to get just 5 mins of play time which i could use to reply to friends and check my mail. sorry im just babbling on and on but i just wanted to get my point across lol. 15 mins just isnt enough it should be at least 25 mins cause come on who doesnt take a 15 min break every once and a while to go grab some grub and drinks and use the bathroom. okay i think im dont now lmao. ^_^ and litterally as i made this message there is about 12 people just standing around agrivating me cause they are taking up world spots for people that actually want to play. UGH. k think im done now lol.

[Voltornus]

Am i the only one that thinks that the people who have been logged in since game release should not get the free week of game time that they issued due to server issues

[emerys]

i think the Dev's are busy .. i havent seen any posts in days .. they prob out looking for a new job

[Killabitz]

If a fix for this is not in near solution can you at least please restart the servers once or twice a day. Give us a fighting chance.

On another note who ever decided paying thousands of dollars to implement new servers before doing an afk timer should be fired.
What are you going to do with that hardware in a year from now when half the population is gone. I personally am only playing FFXIV until EverQuest Next is released and I will never look back. As a matter of fact if there was ANY other game released I would be playing it.

One last thing. "square enix" is the worst experience I ever had registering and logging into a game.
Thanks for wasting my time and money.

[Namimi]

I really hope they do implement logout timers for AFKs because that should alleviate a lot of the server congestion problems.

[bluezeak]

bump - I agree that there should be an afk timer. Unless of course SE fixes the sitaution and everyone can log in, and extra people cause no problems.

But if people just sitting around doing nothing cause server issue - afk timer is needed.