Get rid of the Auto-Logout already or make it an option in the menu.

[Shori]

this makes me a happy bunny... er... cat

[Nanaya]

snip

In all my years of XI, I don't recall a single person leaving it enabled when they were aware of its existence, but hey, I guess if it's already a thing, might as well leave the option up.

[Krokov]

oh I agree I always turned it off so I found a pain having been disconnected because I left for X amount of time. it is good because as others have said it's easy to bypass just do something makes the server recognize you as being active and not just standing still.

[SecsyMancat]

RIP legacy servers, there's already long wait times during prime time. With an influx of players and character parking this is really going to suck.

[Krokov]

People can now transfer off legacy servers.

[alhandra]

why do you need to stay logged in when you arent actively doing something anyways? the game only kicks you to the start menu it takes whopping 1 minute for even the slowest PS3 to log back in after an auto kick. the servers are stressed enough as it is without people needlessly taking up space when they are doing approximately nothing

stupid idea is stupid

[Nanaya]

RIP legacy servers, there's already long wait times during prime time. With an influx of players and character parking this is really going to suck.

Excalibur queues are frequently less than one minute, even during peak hours. Only exception is Mondays, since the certainly not incompetent brain trust over at the XIV dev team somehow thought placing all the resets on Monday was anything but the dumbest possible idea ever. And that's not changing with or without auto logout.

[DkFusion]

Waste of resources removing this, along with increasing server-strain whether it's an issue or not. It's far different then 11's complete play online disconnect that took forever to log back in, this simply kicks you to start screen.

[Vinta]

Here's what puzzles me: Why are people upset about getting kicked off of the game for literally not paying attention to their client for 30 minutes and 20 seconds? They obviously weren't paying attention to the game to care about keeping themselves active in the first place.

What's so important about staying logged in for that extended period of time? It's not like you won't be able to get back in after you're kicked out. The entire point is to reduce the existence of hour-long queues like we experienced at launch.

Secondly, it only kicks out out to the start screen. You get to enjoy the nice End of an Era video when you come back from your trip off to who-knows-where.

Please enlighten me why it's such a problem to have to go "click, click" to get back into the game after waking up from your nap, or leaving your house, or socializing with friends or family. I'm actually finding it hilarious that someone possibly rages every time they come back to their computer to find the "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn" title screen. I'm imagining the scenario like this: "Aaaah, that was nice. I'm rested up and ready to go. Time for some Garu-- WHAT THE **** IS THIS?! WHY THE **** DID IT KICK ME OUT TO THE TITLE SCREEN? **** IT I ****ING HATE SQUARE ENIX."

[Ecks007]

Here's what puzzles me: Why are people upset about getting kicked off of the game for literally not paying attention to their client for 30 minutes and 20 seconds?

Well, we can't do this yet in XIV:ARR, but back in XI and other games I would sometimes afk in certain places and read a book or take a nap listening to the music that played in those areas. Sadly, until ARR adds continuous looped music in areas this isn't much of an option. But I still don't mind afking in a spot and being able to come right back to what I left off doing when I get back.

I get what you're saying, and no it isn't much time at all to log back in from the start screen, but it's still some time that could be spent doing something else. Also, FC or LS might have had a pretty interesting conversation while I was afk or someone sends me a tell, I would likely want to respond back. If you get disconnected you can't even be aware that such things took place and I dunno about you but I don't want to make someone think I'm ignoring them by not answering them.