Server restarts to boot afk players?

[Silmina]

I don't know if you've noticed, but the log-in servers are already being hammered by the people unable to get in. That's why nearly all of the notices for the past few days are about emergency maintenances on the log-in servers and log-in difficulties.

That is exactly why the log in servers will go down if it restarts. You'll have all those people PLUS the ones booted off the server trying to get back in.

If they had a working queue system people would not be trying to log in over and over.

The entire reason why you're getting a "shoo, go away" message instead of a queue is because queues have to be handled by the lobby server. It would crash entirely if SE did that, and fewer people would get to play.

If they had an afk boot timer

then people would just start taping down the W key. It won't solve anything.

I don't feel that Square Enix is being pro-active enough about this situation, and a good portion of the community saw something on this scale happening when SE decided that 3 days was long enough for the entire open beta phase.

No, they are not. I don't expect anyone to give SE a pass on this, because I'm sure not. But the "solutions" people are offering aren't being implemented because they will make the problems worse instead of better.