To the people who are logged in overnight

[seikenflash]

ok so sometimes you have to put things into crayon so people understand.
So you live at a college and you pay for a meal card to eat, now the student population can not support the size of the cafeteria they built. So it only seats 230k people but 350k people want to use it. So everyone attempts to go but only 230k people get inside. Most eat and leave but some stay and sleep at their seats. So the other 120k people who tried to eat start getting mad about the cafeteria being full when they go to eat and some of them decide to stay as well. Now less seats are avail for those who eat and leave. The people who do not leave keeps increasing at this rate the cafeteria that was for eating now becomes a hotel for fear they will not get to eat again if they leave. People who do not leave are not the root cause of the problem the lack of cafeteria size is, but they have made the lack of space smaller and created a larger problem. When the only time they leave is when the building shuts down.

Most people would be smart enough to get their meal and go outside/back to their dorm room, so this doesn't illustrate any points. Rather useless analogy.

[AniJin]

I see it like this, unless you implement an actual afk timeout you will not get the majority of the people to get off when they know that when they get on it will be 1017's for hours... and with a queue that is total rubish "I'm at the front of the queue.... 1017 wtf." why would anyone risk logging out? I'm not saying you shouldn't log out to free up space but half the people telling afkers to loggout will just afk so they don't have to go through that problem next time... it's a cycle. and well. yeah being stuck out sucks... but what can you do until they come up with a viable solution? nothing really but smash 0. Going to sleep and gonna try again tomorrow.

[Loxley]

Is there actually any proof that over half the population on your server across all servers are AFKing to avoid login issues, or are people that mad they need to blame it on conspiracy rather then thinking that maybe, just maybe someone was beating them when a spot opened up?

Hehe. All them tinfoil hats.

[AniJin]

when the early access had so little space that you couldn't select a server and many people played on jp servers just so they could create a character most people are aware... so yes... most of them are not that stupid.

[RockToonz]

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[GiseleValkyrie]

I find it ironic because the people upset about others afking would be doing the something. I get off once and a while but I find it pretty silly that some people are actually trying to say this person isn't an adult or childish just because you can't get in and don't want to deal with a problem that SE put on themselves honestly that seems abit childish in itself. I can agree that a Afk system should have been day one but SE didn't and look what happens but its easy shift the blame everywhere.

[AdaraaKatsumi]

Don't hate the players...

Hate the AFK players.

[Kaedan94]

I find it ironic because the people upset about others afking would be doing the something. I get off once and a while but I find it pretty silly that some people are actually trying to say this person isn't an adult or childish just because you can't get in and don't want to deal with a problem that SE put on themselves honestly that seems abit childish in itself. I can agree that a Afk system should have been day one but SE didn't and look what happens but its easy shift the blame everywhere.

So you agree that people should be kicked for being AFK so others can play the game, but you're only willing to get off if you're forcibly kicked? There's certainly irony going on here, but it isn't from anybody from you.

For your information, there are plenty of players that willingly log off to let others play, myself and most of the Japanese population for one thing. Masamune wasn't having problems until we got a huge influx of American players that came because they couldn't log into their NA servers. Now all the rude players are staying logged in forever.

[KnaveSkye]

Hate the AFK players.

I dont' do it, but I am not mad at the people who do. I have resigned to not playing until they straighten it out and my blood pressure thanks me for it. I try from time to time to get in but I wont spend more than 5 minutes a time trying. Both sides of this argument have valid points but ultimately I lay any blame at the feet of SE.

[Stebs]

Trying to log into this game is like a game itself. Kind of like street fighter. I just spam one button.