Quote Originally Posted by zproximo View Post
Let's say you remove every AFK player. Then what? The lobby will magically load now?
Actually yes, the lobby server would load. Keep in mind that the majority of the servers come up listed as:
This World is currently full. Please wait until an opening is available and try again.
The next step is to be kicked out of the lobby entirely only to load back in. Thousands upon thousands of players are doing this at the same time causing lots of stress on the lobby server giving it errors as it attempts to connect so many people at the same time over and over. Either adding a proper queue system or getting rid of the concurrent AFK player base will open these servers, players will log into and out of the lobby a single time and the lobby server won't be pushed to it's limits day in and day out.