Your Character is Already Logged In Woes

[Kouren]

I think everyone can agree hacking is a problem. Fortunately, it's not a prevalent issue in FF14, in no small part because of security improvements between now and the FF11 era. For those continuing to have trouble with it, there are ways other than extended auto-log to handle it.

Lunami was referring to situations where the server disconnects a character, as was so prevalent in the era before SE changed weekly reset to Tuesdays at 1am. It does still happen, but less frequently, and impacting entire groups less often. Unfortunately, it's still not uncommon to wait five, or even ten minutes for your teammate's character to log off so he can log back in.

To those who insist there's nothing wrong with this system: how would you feel if you saw a drop you had been running months trying to get, disconnected, and were unable to log back in before the chest timer expired because your character was still online?