An emerging online game to prevent people from “plugging in the mouse”

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Since its launch on September 28, MMORPG fiction New World attracted a huge number of players and had problems with ingame queues. Amazon Games are about to work on reducing queue congestion with some measures such as switching servers and announced that they will be bringing in some other changes that address the above situation from a different angle – that of dealing with AFK player.

New World’s built-in AFK timer can force players to log out after a period of inactivity (approximately 25 minutes). In a new forum post, community manager HardcoreHenry revealed that “many players still expressed frustration about certain individuals ‘pretending’ to be active for a sufficient period of time to avoid automatic AFK scanning. moving”.​

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The community manager said that the developers of New World completely agree that this is unacceptable behavior, especially while so many other players are waiting patiently for their turn to enter the world, and explain that Together they have come up with a new solution to identify and combat players who intentionally AFK.

The new system will quickly bring AFK players to the main menu if they are detected and impose harsher penalties if the behavior is frequent. The New World development team is confident that casual players won’t have any problems once the AFK scanner is up and running.
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