Remove auto-logout feature

[Erudain]

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.

Let's counter that:

WoW (2004 - current) - has an afk kick
Aion (2009 - current) - has an afk kick
Tera (2011 - current) - has an afk kick
Rift (2011 - current) - has an afk kick
SWtor (2011 - current) - has an afk kick

So yes....the norm in massive MMO these days is having an auto-afk kick.
Sure, those game you list had no afk kick, but also had no where near the ammount of players MMOs today have (because MMO were not as masive as they are now)