Guild Wars 2

I think I can speak for all the RPers in this game when I say it is as annoying as balls to get kicked out of the game for inactivity when you’ve been actively typing commands for the past 45 minutes or more.

Oh yes, my friends. Somehow, /emote and /em and /say don’t actually count as activity in-game. So, for those of us who like to roleplay, we have to constantly fire off random spells so that the game doesn’t kick us off. If we’re lucky, we get a 50 second warning that a kick is imminent. But, more likely, we’ll get a 10 second warning, and then instantly find ourselves staring at the character selection screen.

Are we botting? No. Are we afk? No.

Fun fact about instanced zones: if you get kicked while in one, your entire party has to reenter the zone with you when you log back in.

Please, A.net. Please make your servers recognize /em, /emote and /say as valid activity! Getting kicked so often is really harshing our mellow.

I actually filed a bug about this, 2 months ago. I bumped it at least once.

Brought to you by the Founder of the Don’t Kick Me While I Am Typing Association

It’s kind of redonk, eh?

Don’t forget that you can even be kicked for inactivity if you spend too much time at character creation. It seems the game registers activity only as “Character has moved” and “Character has used a skill”.

As far as I know, you should always get a notice that you will be kicked for inactivity in X seconds. I think the notices have always started at 50 or 60 seconds for me.

Until typing is recognized as actual activity, I guess the best option is moving your character even a tiny bit.