I completely agree with this. If they don’t take a strong stance against it, people will just keep doing it by the thousands, and the servers will remain with avoidably large queues for quite a while. People are doing it to avoid queues when they are a large reason why the queue is so large. They’re creating the issue they’re trying to avoid.
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I lowkey wonder if some number of anti-AFKers are doing it maliciously to cause the queue to inflate. Possibly because of the alterations between vanilla and classic.
Again, this is pure speculation.
I wouldn’t doubt it, but I don’t really care what their reason is. Just the fact they are doing it and it needs to be put to a stop.
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This is 100% on Blizzard though. We said for a very long time that a lot of people were going to play, and a lot of servers would be needed.
“You think we do, but we don’t.” Well, this is the result.
So you’re telling me you watched these people do this for hours instead of playing the game? What makes you any different than them at that point?
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It’s not entirely Blizzard’s fault, they have added servers, and capacity but players refuse to let AFK timers go out, or move servers.
I’m not sitting there babysitting lol
I was questing in Redridge and made note of the people in the Inn when I started. Went out, quested, came back an hour later, they were in the exact same spot, went out, quested, came back 2 hours later, still there, exact same spot. I watched one while I was turning in perform a macro to hop up, cast rejuvenate, shadowmeld, and sit back down.
It’s pretty obvious.
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I’m not normally “that guy” but I’ve been reporting the anti-AFK people too. They’re pooping up the game for the rest of us.
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Pretty much. I’ve seen one guy in my layer run the same AFK script all day long as i come in and out of Crossroads for quests.
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Yes and no. Blizzard could have handled launch much better in my opinion. But the fact is a server can only hold so many people. So if you have a queue of 6,000 but 4,000 people are anti-AFKers, then they are multiplying the queue we would have by three. 2,000 is much more manageable than 6,000. They inflate queue.
yeah periodic DC would be fine, I mean maybe after 1 hour of being inside a Inn auto disconnect, if its a legit player he can log back in as his slot is saved for a few mins after a disconnection
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Im not saying they aren’t or they are but how do you know without evidence? I mean don’t they have just as much of a right to be in the game as other people?
I almost never report people. I even look the other way about herb botting. Cause who cares? But this is actually affecting the integrity of the servers and causing thousands of people displeasure/drama.
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They have the right to be on the game while they’re playing the game. Not botting while they’re asleep for 8 hours.
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Just watch and observe their actions. They’ll perform specific actions in a specific pattern at an exact interval before the AFK timer starts.
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Sounds like paranoia to me.
I’m the same way, Sarcasmic. I normally don’t care what other people do. But when thousands of them are killing the server and the player experience for thousands of other people. Yeah. Then I care.
How so? I’ve got plenty of examples of people doing it. even players in the Stalagg community discord.
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I went to the mining trainer in the Dwarf district in SW today and there was a guy upstairs in the bedroom running against the wall in place and jumping every 20 or 30 seconds in sequence. Sometimes it’s paranoia, but sometimes it’s real.
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How many times in your WoW career have you stood in the Inn for 8 hours in a row and every 25 minutes cast two spells the entire time? I’m willing to bet you’ve done that 0 times. There’s literally no reason to do that unless you’re cheating the AFK timer.
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