Remove auto-logout feature

[ergoproxy]

Give me the option to turn this off. Sometimes I leave the game on so I can watch and see if anything interesting is happenning while I do other things. There multiple reasons why this is just annoying. Get rid of it or give me the option to turn it off myself like in FFXI.

^ This is needed!! Its good to go back after being afk and see if LS or FC is up to something you might miss if you cannot keep the history (logged out). Other arguments are searching for walkthrough, recepies and stuff and still being inlogged. Stress factor of the afk kick timer is also annoying, you know you must do something within 30 mins.. Make it optional!

[Nin-Lil-izi]

SE has really dropped the ball adding this.

But, as this is really the first lolwot of a brilliantly handled launch.
I can't complain too much beyond a discontented grumble.
I'm sure they'll see the folly and fix this horrible 'feature' soon.

Or at least add let us disable it.

[Meleoron]

is this a troll? do you really expect to be able to idle for hours in a game? much less 30 minutes. Every MMO ever has had this and the only reason 11 did not cause half of the market system in that game was based around players having their own AH. It is beyond insane for me to think people are pissed about this. You don't even have to worry about not being able to log in now. all it does is force you to take 30 seconds to log back into the game if you go afk.

It also helps with any server problems they had and will still have. Lets calm down and not bitch about a good idea that is standard in every god damn MMO put out now.

[Nin-Lil-izi]

We must be playing different games.

I've been playing mmo's since the 90's and this is the first time I've encountered forced log-outs.

[tnkw]

We must be playing different games.

I've been playing mmo's since the 90's and this is the first time I've encountered forced log-outs.

eh... what mmo you played?
WoW have auto log out
Starwars have auto log out

I am pretty sure these games are made after 90s

[Cyrus-Wallace]

NOPE.

If you're not playing, let other people to play. They ALL pay for this, not you only. If you get logged off, then log in and wait in the queue if the world is full. This function has been implemented in a lot of MMOs... so, if you're one of those perma-AFKers, then I'm glad your party is over.

Also, if there're less people connected (You know, putting the AFKers offline), the servers won't be overloaded and there will be less lag issues.

[Saccharin]

We must be playing different games.

I've been playing mmo's since the 90's and this is the first time I've encountered forced log-outs.

ONLY if you are AFK. 30 minutes is generous really.

[Arminus]

eh... what mmo you played?
WoW have auto log out
Starwars have auto log out

I am pretty sure these games are made after 90s

You notice they also never list the names of the MMOs, they just say "mmo's" in the general sense. The ONE person who posted the ones he was talking about he was wrong about almost ALL of them, and the few he wasn't wrong about were mediocre games with almost no playerbase. I'm at a loss, if these people aren't gonna be around to hit ONE button every so often to prevent afk, then how can they be around to accept a queue? The people in this thread redefine the word lazy... I never thought i'd see the day that this level of laziness existed in the world.

[Quesse]

They're selling digital copies of the gam again. Which means more people joining. They've increased the server capacity but unless they keep this afk-boot feature, soon we will have the login issues again even after they add new servers.

You're correct. If we have login issues, that's because they are letting more people join. Its not like there's all of a sudden 1000 open slots on the server because the AFKs are gone.

This solution was a placebo.

The slots are simply taken up by more active players - if you didn't notice they just opened up all NA/EU server to Character Creation. Why? Because there's tons of open slots now! So we still get queues because now there are more actives than ever. Auto-logout doesn't fix anything it just shifts the problem.

[Nin-Lil-izi]

eh... what mmo you played?

MUDs a plenty for the first half the 90's.. But back it was much the same as IRC... A logout was a network failure and online times in the weeks were common.
Ultima Online... (1997->2001) No logouts.... But cost of mobile internet service back then kept sessions short to only a half dozen hours or so at a time.
Everquest... (1999->2001) No logouts.
EVE Online... (2001->2004) No logouts.
FFXI.... (2004->2007) Logouts are an option you have to enable.
LOTRO... (2007->2010) Logout optional.
FFXIV... (2010-Now)

It's a pretty typical gaming history, even if I've hopped between games far more often than most I know.
I tend to move on when devs ruin a game by ruining the fun things to do, or turn it into a different product entirely.
FFXIV has to be an industry first for a redesign making a game better. Even if the dumbing down is a sadness.


anyway... The auto-logout gets in the way of the exact opposite of lazyness... Like those of us who play while cooking/cleaning our trailers/keeping up with guild chat and watching for when guildies start a quick dungeon run while working on projects on our other screens.... Because it makes for a better game experience than the df.
Random dungeon running breaks scattered thru your day really make you a more focused hacker.