Ragefire Update May 22 @ 5:45PM PDT: The AFK Problem, Fix INC!

YAY !!!

People who are saying the AFKers are not the problem are delusional to say the least. Theres easily a thousand AFKs last night preventing the people who would actually play.

Keep putting your tin foils on.

Thanks for the hopeful <Fingers crossed> fix, and for the update.

It will help hundreds immediately, and hopefully the rest of them to have shorter wait times.

Yeah I was grouped with a guy who was explicitly saying that he wasnt going to log off until he was kicked off so that he could keep his spot.

Cost too much? You could make a 600$ PC that would run better then most servers out there.

Sorry a multi million dollar company cant make that happen.

The afks are a symptom of the problem, that the server can't handle the number of players who want to play. All this is going to do is boot people and create a bottle neck on the log in server. I bet there wouldn't be this afk issue if the server wasn't at capacity.

Sorry people can't get in it sucks, but booting people isn't going to get others in, just shifts the problem from server limit to login server issues, eventually it just all starts all over again.

Fix the problem, not the symptoms.

Thanks for the response. I figured it really wasn't something you guys thought about building because login queues are never an issue with EQ Live servers. But I think this will serve you well should you decide to open more special ruleset servers in the future. We've seen this same server capacity issues during all rounds of progression servers now.

It's just too bad that so many people are passionate about coming back to EQ, yet they are turned away due to old technology. Anyways, I appreciate the hard work you guys put into trying to improve the experience for EQ progression fans.

Yes, exactly but this community doesnt seem to grasp the real problem.

Only DBG should have been more prepared to accept everyone, regardless if they are AFK. You do realize the reason people are going AFK is because DBG failed to provide adequate server capacity or an additional server. Therefore, it is in no way the fault of those who are AFK. period.

You are part of the problem. You must have afk'd with your 6 mages now mad you got to log them all in again. Hope you dont get to.

Sounds good to me! Thanks! Was worried I was going to have to power puff my terrible habit to make it back in time lol

As long as you're saying it's not impossible to scam the system, I will be happy.

So i am an old fella, if i wanna take a good long will u all boot me so i then have to wait In the capacity has been reached go to bed screen all night again.

Wow I got in! Thank you! Brb bio...

this update is good and very appreciated but why didn't you just opened 2 servers from the start like quite a few of us warn you about this very issue (over populated server) many of us who gave the warning played on the 1st 2 servers and knew what to expect. anyways thank you for addressing the AFK issue

Its not their fault the server is at capacity... thats a long stretch but maybe. Its damn sure partly their fault hundreds if not thousands of people couldn't play. Thats pretty dang rude. Some of those people were afk for over 6 hours.

Can we get an official response as to why you won't bring up a second server and merge them in 6 months?

Yeah. If you are not willing to play, log out so someone else who will and wants to play can. Dont go afk with 6 bots to go to the store when 6 other players who dont have bots and taking up server space and actually want to play a legit non-busted version of the game can.