Quote Originally Posted by JosiahGrey View Post
Not trying to be a smartass here, but to answer your question...

This generation makes decisions based upon only two considerations: what we want, and what we can get away with. This is not a moral decision matrix; it is amoral by definition. Morality is based upon the idea of right and wrong as absolutes. "What's in it for me", to paraphrase your above question? I avoid the penalties inherent to living an amoral life. Most of you will not understand that. Some of you will.

You are simply rationalizing amoral behavior. There's really no need to do that. Amoral behavior doesn't require an apology. Just do what you want to do and screw everyone else. I logged out of the game on Friday with the full realization that I would probably not be able to get back in until after the big server "fix". But I'm not an apologist for Square Enix. Whatever else you may think, please don't think that.
What penalties, then? There are none. Nobody is going to care whether you specifically are AFKing on the server or not. Your 'penalties' are self-imposed or implied. If you have religious beliefs that imply that you are judged in the afterlife, thats fine and it's not my place to argue with you on such points, but again... you aren't 'screwing' anybody by AFKing. The one screwing US is SquareEnix. The reason why servers are full and why players have to force their way into the game is because of design choices and poor decisions made by them. You're still making the assumption that players not AFKing on servers is opening up slots for people who want to play. It's not. Even if there was an AFK kick timer or if everyone who AFKs all stopped for whatever reason, there would still be error 1017s all over the place until we get a proper login queue to sit in.