Dear god.. kick the AFKers

[Tristaris]

In fact, with the sheer numbers of afk players sitting around aetherytes, SE has one hell of a warped view of actual healthy active population on any of their servers. Made noticeable by it taking anywhere between 40 minutes and 3 hours to get a Duty Finder group running. It doesn't help that character creation has essentially been non-existent since day one of launch, so despite being a "new" game, there is hardly anyone available at this point to run the required lower level dungeons and group main story fights.

Considering this is a billion dollar company, the amateur hour management is more than a little hilarious.

I've actually had no problems getting into dungeons and whatnot. Granted I main a paladin, so I don't guess that says a whole lot. Unfortunately DD are a dime a dozen so the queues are going to be high regardless for those not healing/tanking or grouped with either of the two. Also, I wholeheartedly disagree that kicking anyone AFK is going to help. The servers are still going to be that congested, and then when folks get kicked offline, it's going to turn into the same mess you have now. The only thing that's going to fix the problems is to increase server capacity/the amount of servers to spread the population out a bit more or whatever they do. I don't know about anyone else but every time I'm in a main city or town, I see maybe a few folks AFK, and I know in my FC there is maybe one or two afk at any given time - there's bigger issues than AFKing people. If you're going to bitch about people being AFK, at least have the common decency to gripe about the bots and gold farmers wasting "precious spots" too.

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I've actually had no problems getting into dungeons and whatnot. Granted I main a paladin, so I don't guess that says a whole lot. Unfortunately DD are a dime a dozen so the queues are going to be high regardless for those not healing/tanking or grouped with either of the two. Also, I wholeheartedly disagree that kicking anyone AFK is going to help. The servers are still going to be that congested, and then when folks get kicked offline, it's going to turn into the same mess you have now. The only thing that's going to fix the problems is to increase server capacity/the amount of servers to spread the population out a bit more or whatever they do. I don't know about anyone else but every time I'm in a main city or town, I see maybe a few folks AFK, and I know in my FC there is maybe one or two afk at any given time - there's bigger issues than AFKing people. If you're going to bitch about people being AFK, at least have the common decency to gripe about the bots and gold farmers wasting "precious spots" too.

There are a TON more people sitting afk then bots. Anyone who tries to pretend it's just a few people are passive aggressively defending this via deflection and lies because they're afraid of having to ever go through login roulette again.

We're not talking about kicking people off who are immediately going to try logging back in. :eyeroll: We're talking about kicking people off who really are afk. You know. Sleeping. Working. etc. This strange world you live in where they'll all immediatly try to log back in, clogging the servers to the same extent is more strange fantasy.

Every single city, and just about every single Aetheryte, has more afk people than not, even accounting for people who are actually afk (ie: bathroom, etc). This is not new. This is the EXACT same issue that occurred during 1.0 launch, just on a larger scale due to all the hype the relaunch got.