Can someone tell me why everyone is upset about the logout timer?

[Rochetm]

I don't understand it at all. Nearly every MMO has a system for auto logging people. In FFXI you could turn it off but that was needed because of the bazaar system. There is no reason to create extra load on a server and use up bandwidth while doing nothing for 30 minutes straight.

[DeceptionsWrath]

The only thing i can see to why this was implimented now is so SE can save some money and push the server compacity even further. Meaning lets just say a server can hold 6000 @ any given time. So they actually have 8000 that are registered for that server all together. But since only 6000 can be on @ once, they need to get rid of the people that aren't actually playing but are taking up space. Just seems very cheap and in poor taste to me but w/e, the white knights and fanboys cried so here we are now. Now we just suck it up or leave. And i know what i'll be doing.

[Moth]

You are paying to play the game. Once you are done playing, and your character is just sitting there, you're not playing.

You do not enter a restaurant, eat your food, pay your bill, and continue to just sit there for hours. Especially if there is a line of people waiting to get in.

If you do, I have truly lost any hope that humanity will survive as a species ><

Oh, and the rest of us really don't want to stare at your character, bouncing around in active mode, in the middle of a main thoroughfare, wearing gear that everyone is able to get. Ugh, really people?

Yet no one is waiting in line. How much time has to pass until you realize that the full world errors were corrected. This is not an issue anymore.

[Iolair_Silverwing]

I'm just wondering, did anyone who's saying "there aren't any more issues" bother to read Yoshi-P's post from yesterday?

The frequency of session checks has been set at this pace to once again avoid placing excessive stress on the lobby server.

At peak times such as weekends, players tend to remain logged in for extended periods. We are constantly monitoring character logins for each world, and implementing or lifting restrictions as the situation demands.

Were we to continue to accept login queue requests regardless of population, the queues for each World would grow from several hundred to several thousand, with tens of thousands of players waiting to log in across all Worlds. If the session connections described above were created for every single one of these characters, the lobby server would eventually be overwhelmed.

[Iolair_Silverwing]

But wait! There's more...

A lobby server error could potentially reset queues, which would cause even greater frustration to players who had already been waiting to log in for several hours. This is the reasoning behind why players attempting to enter a World experiencing login restrictions─the duration of which cannot be predicted─receive an error display instead of being placed in a queue.

Heavily populated Worlds may still experience congestion during peak times, but with the upgrades made to concurrent connection capacity, the addition of new Worlds, and the introduction of the World transfer service and an automatic logout feature, we believe the general login situation will steadily improve as time goes on.

Source: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...vements-Part-2

[Fyrebrand]

I am not AFK, I am still here at my computer waiting for a dungeon party.

Then what is your problem with a 30-minute kick for complete inactivity? How hard is it to simply move your character a step forward, once per 30 minutes, just to register that you are still there? Push W key, problem solved.

Being logged out is not a "punishment," it is a measure taken to improve server stability in general. If it didn't contribute to that in some way, they wouldn't have implemented it.

You are free to log back in, any time. And if the "world being full error," as you call it, has been "corrected," then surely logging back in will pose no problems. It only takes a few seconds.

[TrystWildkey]

Yet no one is waiting in line. How much time has to pass until you realize that the full world errors were corrected. This is not an issue anymore.

No one is waiting in line because they closed off the parking lot and aren't letting anyone else in. They suspended digital sales until they had stopgap measures in place. When they resume digital sales, and when transfers are available, there will most likely be lines again. The feature is still needed.

[Aurongroove]

30 minutes is plenty,

the last day I went and made dinner for myself and when I came back I wasn't logged out.

As someone said it's not like it's a punishment dismissal from the server, FFS just log back in.
Since the expansion I haven't seen a single 1017 error. I;ve only ever got the queue, and I've never been waiting for more then 30 seconds to log in.

[Stargazer1]

There is no justifiable reason to be AFK for 30+ minutes. A toilet break, getting a drink, even making a quick snack take less time than that. If you are doing something longer then it's probably time to take a short break anyway in terms of occupational health and safety. The idea of logging on is to play after all. Hopefully it will boot the gil spammers as well. It does have a useful purpose.

[StrangerousDangerous]

Well it is now a pointless system that was placed in game to solve an issue that only new servers and capacity would solve.

And its not like if the servers ever get locked again that the same afkers wont just run an auto click script to skirt the afk kicker.

So, yeah its a pointless system that doesn't work, that is now in game to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and if it did exist wouldn't have solved the issue.

Doesn't bother me so long as im not kicked every smoke break or bathroom break I take.

But it was placed in game as a reaction to low-information complainers as a feel good fix rather than a functional fix....that's the only issue I have with it.