How to fix 1017: BOOT AFKS

[Ameroth]

BTW, I really don't care if you want to AFK on a server, as long as I can log in and have the gaming experience I paid for. It's when I'm denied service because of your behavior that this becomes an issue. If they fix this on Wednesday by expanding capacity, I'm good.

And, considering all issues currently at-hand, I will faithfully support you on the issue. When the servers are loaded down because of short-sightedness on the producers' end (although I do understand their reasoning), it does seem unfair to block access to players who are actually trying to play while others are logged in staring at the back-end of their cait sith doll for hours on end.

When we can all login, everytime, with no issues, I believe an AFK timer would go against what I paid for.

[EXILED-VETERAN]

uh instead of making worlds bigger, limit the amount of ppl that can join that fuckin world stop overloading worlds, sorry if u don't get to choose the world u want, u shoulda joined earlier, but i shouldn't have to ever freakin wait because u guys overload all the worlds, limit the shit so at anytime eveyone assigned to that server can be on, this is a rookie freakin problem, this is what phase 4 was for!!!! get it together!!!!

[Vili]

Why are we still complaining when they are about go expand capacity and open new servers? Also you apparently didn't read, yoshi has plans to implemnt an afk boot timer, but they have other pressing matters to do before they inplment it.

[JosiahGrey]

Why are we still complaining when they are about go expand capacity and open new servers? Also you apparently didn't read, yoshi has plans to implemnt an afk boot timer, but they have other pressing matters to do before they inplment it.

Well, point of fact I have read Yoshi's comments to that effect, and that's not what he said. He said they had "considered" the AFK issue but assigned it a lower priority behind server upgrades. Reading is good. Reading with comprehension is even better.

[MynxLynx]

SE knows this issue is discussed by the community and a Rep posted on it here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ck-Timer/page4

If what they do to the servers in the next two days doesn't alleviate the congestion problems then they will possibly look at implementing an auto log due to inactivity.

[Shades]

SE knows this issue is discussed by the community and a Rep posted on it here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ck-Timer/page4

If what they do to the servers in the next two days doesn't alleviate the congestion problems then they will possibly look at implementing an auto log due to inactivity.

Problem is they're really vague on exactly what it is they are doing, they're basically saying nothing beyond ya we're working on something and we're opening more worlds in the future. Lack of communication isn't really acceptable any longer.

Also I've been through launches like this, this seems like a lack of research. Aion had exactly the same problem during it's launch week (mind you they actually had a working queue system in place) the cause was people not logging out because they were afraid they wouldn't be able to log back in. Even saw people claiming that them staying logged in all the time wasn't a problem, that the 9h queues were caused by some other factor. soon as the AFK timer went live, queues dropped to less then 5 minutes on all servers at peak. AFK timeout should be a mandatory feature in modern MMOs, else you run into this situation. It happened before, it's happening now, it will likely happen again down the road.

My biggest worry is they are doing exactly what other MMOs have done during launch week, where by they end up opening too many servers, spreading the community too thin among them, and then they spend the next year seeing their player base complain about low pop servers due to concurrent user numbers dropping after the free month is up. Then there's the bad PR and hassle when they finally announce server mergers. Personally they should have prioritized the afk timer, then slowly increase servers, doing it the other way around is likely to be expensive down the line. It's all happened before.

[JosiahGrey]

Shades-

Exactly. What I've been trying to say for three days now.

[Elmo]

What about resetting the servers at midnight every day? Are the NA/EU servers joined or separate? I have no clue about servers or how they work but I've seen a lot of people saying they should just reset them to boot all the AFK players, allowing new people to come online.

So JP servers get reset midnight JP time, and the same for NA/EU servers providing they are separate. Would that work?

[stiglar]

My dearest Square Enix,

I have patiently defended you guys in the face of all of the server errors that have plagued us these last several days. I know it's launch and you guys have a lot of problems to sort out, but at this point, I think I speak for a large portion of the community when I say that we're tired of dueling 1017 for hours to be able to log in.

The cause of these problems, in my opinion - the fact that the game does not automatically boot players who are AFK.

I don't know that increasing data centers/world population/whatever is going to fix the problem in the long-run. Nobody logs out of the game because of the enormous difficulties they face getting back in, so you have thousands of AFKs sitting in sanctuaries around the world.

I am pleading with you guys - please implement an AFK kick immediately. The fact that this isn't already a thing is disconcerting, and I think it'll solve 90% of the problems that players are experiencing.

Thank you!

Problem is: this game is Pay to Play = You are afk in game = nobody should care becoase you bought this time !

[Gamerfan001]

>_< So tired of 1017. I wish they would listen to us.