[2019] Who else is both very excited but also very nervous about the roadmap tomorrow?

Hey there! Thank you for the write up u/PM_ME_INTERNET_SCAMS. I appreciate you taking the time to voice your concerns on this topic. I understand the frustrations regarding AFK players in your game.. we all do and It's not a great experience.. at all.

I can tell you right now that there is no mention of AFK on the roadmap. However, we are implementing a better tracking system which will help us evaluate the system in it's current state. It's going to take a little more time after this new system is implemented so we can check the overall scale across the entire game and not just what players on a specific social platform are saying. We know it's an issue, we know it's a wide scale problem, and it's not something we're ignoring. Sadly, we don't have further details to share with you all at the moment.. but hopefully in the near future.

You guys promised to improve and to deal with the problem 2 years ago, and now, 2 years later you are implementing a tracking system to evaluate the scale of the problem?

We introduced a new kick system that had a lot of false positives.. which wasn't great. We saw an uptick in players getting kicked who were actually participating in activities, but wrongfully removed. The biggest offender of this was the Storm King. Players were getting kicked because there may have been a situation or downtime where they weren't able to get combat / building / gathering scores. We saw this same type of issue in Frostnite.

There are several ideas that we've discussed.. and we're iterating on those ideas to see if they fit or would work. It's definitely a unique situation.. How do you action a player who is doing a side objective but not the main objective in a mission? These are considered "leechers" and quite often looped in with "AFK". If we did a vote to kick system.. how do you loop out people intentionally griefing / abusing the system to get their friends in? That doesn't feel great either. There's lots of things we're discussing in order to get the system in the right place.

Translation: "We think r/Fortnite is exaggerating this issue."

That's definitely not the case. We know it's a problem. But we need to have better tracking so that we can see the global impact.. not just what's said on reddit.