New World Players Go AFK to Avoid Getting Stuck in Queue After Logout

Due to huge queues to New World servers, players go AFK and resort to all sorts of other tricks to avoid logging out and getting kicked for inactivity. It didn't take long for the community to respond to these practices...

Released last Tuesday New World doesn't cease to amaze. At the peak moment, the MMO from Amazon Games was played by over 800,000 players at the same time, and that's only on Steam. Unfortunately, according to the prevailing player opinion it difficult to have fun in the game's current condition - yhis is due to the long queues (lasting up to 8 hours) to the game servers, overwhelmed by the flood of users logging in. Some try to get around this obstacle... by not logging out of the game at all.

"No way. If I spend 6 hours in line, I have every right to go to the toilet for 15 minutes," writes one player on the official forum of New World."

Of course, it's not enough to just stand still - after 20 minutes of inactivity you will be kicked off the server. To prevent this, you need to perform some action during this time. So, theoretically, the simplest solution is to lock our character on the wall with auto-run enabled. This would enable us to go AFK without leaving the game. However, leaving our avatar alone is advisable only in safe locations, because otherwise, we can suffer unpleasant consequences:

"To be honest, if it was a choice between doing that and waiting for another 3000 queues, what would most of you do.

The long queues are the reason people act this way and sitting here for the last 2 hours in the queue, I am so tired of this nonsense," comments another user.

As it turns out,the auto-run function does not stop the idle counter in New World. Players using the aforementioned trick probably use macros or put a weight on the key.

This whole situation creates a kind of vicious circle. People are afraid of standing in queues, so they resort to similar tricks, thus blocking the space for players to log in. - and making the queue even longer. Not surprisingly, the majority of the community disapproves of this behavior and encourages people to report it on the game's forums. As one internet user writes:

"Definitely worth a report – Amazon has taken a really hard stance on investigating player behavior (most notably chat abuse and offensive player names), so [...] if you report these folk – they will actively look into it and come up with a way to determine if they’re macroing (they obviously are).

Could be something as simple as a “Respond to this message to confirm that you’re present” situation."

The developers are aware of the problem and have already announced a solution in the form of the ability to transfer characters to another server. Players waiting in line can receive free in-game rewards by watching streams on Twitch. So will New World become the new king of MMOs despite the problems? One thing is certain, thanks to the game's success in the future we can count on more title from Amazon Games.