Empiren Posted 8/26/2013 7:41:53 PM message detail Away from keyboard(AFK). In FFXIV this doesn't mean you take a 30minute break for whatever. No, in FFXIV, you are going to sleep, going to work, doing whatever it is you do for the entire day, while leaving your character inside the server taking up a position. This is a problem because: 1. The servers are population locked and there isn't a que, nor are there afk timers. 2. Therefore any player in there is taking a spot in the population list 1/100000 3. Then the percent of people afk but not playing therefore lock out the people who would naturally get in the game due to them leaving.(logging off). 4. So naturally people adapt and just leave there characters there until they get back. Therefore making the percentage of AFK people grow, locking more and more of the natural player percentage out while the server becomes full of more and more afk players. It will essentially scar or at least annoy this game'