Is it really asking too much

[Riktus]

its not gonna work because people will just circumvent it. they would make a macro on their gkeys or razer keyboards to press jump then pause 5 min then jump again. to prevent from idling to long. This is why antiafk systems are dumb and pointless.

-some- people will make a macro to circumvent it, but the mass majority of people aren't that smart lol you give people in general too much credit.

AFK timers would definitely boot the majority of AFK'ers

[Mailstrum]

-some- people will make a macro to circumvent it, but the mass majority of people aren't that smart lol you give people in general too much credit.

AFK timers would definitely boot the majority of AFK'ers

for like a day then the mass majority of the people will find a way to stay logged in. the people that are staying logged in are the same type of people that would circumvent the afk timer with a 2 second to make macro. Simple at this point all of these things are not needed because the issue will be fixed in 2 days.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...e_days/cbz520t

[Knall]

It works for World of Warcraft, why wouldn't it work for this game.

In WoW you stay AFK for 20 minutes you get logged out.

Why oh why does everything get compared to WoW. Personally I despise the game and couldn't stand playing it despite someone offering to pay the sub. How about we skip trying to turn this into wow and move toward something DIFFERENT than that PoS game :P

[Mailstrum]

is it to much to ask people to stop QQing. they posted that they are aware of the problem and they are fixing it and that it will be ready early this week. probably Monday or Tuesday. If thats not enough info for you to be assured it will be fixed, how about they are also giving us 7 free days to make up for some of the down time we had since last tuesday. and i say down time as in people not able to log since the servers really havent been down.

[Knall]

is it to much to ask people to stop QQing.

What is QQing? I am sure you don't mean crying because QQ is actually an old term coined during the age of early network play where it meant to ragequit because QQ exited the app. So is it too much to ask that people actually understand what they are staying and quit regurgitating misinformation?

The issues they have been having have been since the 'official release'. I have yet to see a single day where they haven't had any myriad of problems.

[Raist]

What is QQing? I am sure you don't mean crying because QQ is actually an old term coined during the age of early network play where it meant to ragequit because QQ exited the app. So is it too much to ask that people actually understand what they are staying and quit regurgitating misinformation?

The issues they have been having have been since the 'official release'. I have yet to see a single day where they haven't had any myriad of problems.

0.o so I'm not the only old fart in this game after all?

Oh the days of bulletin boards, and that annoying 14.4/28.8k squawk box. Good times.

[Knall]

0.o so I'm not the only old fart in this game after all?

Oh the days of bulletin boards, and that annoying 14.4/28.8k squawk box. Good times.

If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

[Raist]

If it helps, I played my first online game with a 2400, I remember upgrading to a 9600 and thinking life was good.

lol.. BAUD rate. Wonder how many here even know what that is. It was so much fun to walk into a government building and find old System/36 systems still lying around... the dreaded hard drives the size of a masonry block that couldn't even hold a single CD's worth of data. Seriously, they were complete with fan/heatsink and literally like 20 lbs or heavier. Oh, and the 8 inch floppies.... 1/4 tape reels.

The good old days, when you could actually get at the guts of your OS. This Win8 crap is driving me NUTS!!!

Sometimes I wonder if that isn't part of our problem with SE these last few years. All the younger script kiddies that have no "old school" skills, and just don't know how to think things through and plan properly for the exceptions that can come their way. I remember first watching guys do things in Eclipse, and I was like WTF?!! It was like automated coding? When the hell did that happen?

Man.. I feel really old now... time for some Irish Coffee, and back to work.

[Silentstreak787]

They could space out each world though, boot everyone on 1 world then hour later do the next, this way only a minimum amount of people are login in back in at once, doing this won't cause an over excessive strain on the servers.

Another note, I see problems with people logging on lasting longer than just till Monday or Tuesday, the full servers isn't the only problem they're having . I see this last at least a month.

[Mailstrum]

They could space out each world though, boot everyone on 1 world then hour later do the next, this way only a minimum amount of people are login in back in at once, doing this won't cause an over excessive strain on the servers.

then 25 hours later all the servers have finally been restarted? This is a horrible idea. they are doing what needs to be done to fix these issue no need for anti afk no need for restarting the servers.... the issue will be resolved when the new hardware is online and server upgrades are completed.