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

Hey guys,

Players who long into Ragefire just to take up space on the server AFK isn't awesome.

We have an update coming in less than 30 minutes that will address players taking long AFKs on the server automagically. We believe this should help with the high population we're seeing on Ragefire.

Thanks for the update sir. Any possibilities for a login queue system sometime in the near future?

Good work guys. You have my support 100%.

This is the hail mary before the long weekend? sigh

Thank you Roshen.

I just don't believe booting afk people will free up slots for everyone.

Awesome news. Thanks for the update .

What is considered a long afk? 5, 10, 15 minutes?

uh no felicia all their other games are crap, so bye felicia.

Building a queue system for EQ isn't a small project.

I agree it's not a great feeling when one person tries to log in for an hour, and his friend gets in after only trying to 5 minutes.

That being said, at this time there's no plan to add a queue system to EverQuest.

This isnt a fix to you problem. This is a fix to a large community that want to play a game you only will allocate one server to.

Thanks!

Thank you Roshen! I'm excited to put some time into this server. I appreciate everything DBG has done in this unfortunate event. Thank you for keeping this great game alive.

Take your money somewhere else if you are unhappy with their service.

How about another server.

What is the anticipated down time for the server?

The only reason many of us signed up for this "all access" pass is to play on ragefire, lets not pretend here.

Thanks for the update Roshen. It's unfortunate we can't all get in but the staff is working their butts off to try and fix that.

The problem with making another server is the diminishing returns.

Inevitably people will leave this server as it progresses further and further. Another server would just cost too much.

All Night becuase now 5k people will hammer the hell out of that server. U r done for the night.

Can you expand on the time it takes for the system to kick AFK people?

They can merge them. They have and still merge servers. They can use Vulak, its dead.