Is turning off game client and hope to get kicked to avoid penalty a thing?

[monochromicorn]

So if any scenario is possible, you will entertain the possibility of people cheating the system and put others in an inconvenient spot then?

It is completely possible, and no way to tell the difference between a legit DC and someone being a d**k. I myself gladly take the penalty, if I am to the point that I will quit, I need that timeout. I myself see no reason to try and cheat it.

I have turned my system off, forgetting that it didn't log me out, as I was thinking about something else, like my wife who was a week overdue on the baby, and started having contractions, which ended up being false. About 7 minutes later, I came back on, explained what happened, and were ok with it.

[Riviere]

Yes, it's a thing. Right now you're gonna see it a few times in WoD with people looking for a certain item. I also know people who do it on roulette, they queue as tanks and if they get a dungeon they don't like, they close the client and wait.

[LunaHoshino]

Couple a weeks ago, we were running FCoB and our NIN DCd, about 10-15 mins later his char is still in world with the DC symbol and he is unable to log back in.

I've had multiple cases where an FCmate has DCed and we actually had to tell them on TS when their character finally disappeared so that they could log back in because it took so long. It's not an uncommon occurrence at all.

[LalaRu]

I've some time to spend, so happened to agree with others to just go afk some time and wait the smart guy relog, to all of us give him a warm "Welcome back" when he relogs thinking to have been kicked out.

[Neri]

I don't know though, I used to get disconnected due to power failure for about 15 minutes. Once I logged back on, the party didn't kick me out and actually just beat Xande. Felt pretty bad though, but anyway, it's something that I couldn't control on my end there, that power failure.

[ruskie]

I've some time to spend, so happened to agree with others to just go afk some time and wait the smart guy relog, to all of us give him a warm "Welcome back" when he relogs thinking to have been kicked out.

Heh. We don't even AFK. We keep going depending on dungeon. If we have a SMN around we'll grab titan egi and keep going. And once the guy did come back and went. "Why didn't you kick me?" Well because we had friends that legit DCed mid runs and took 5 min to first leave the game and then another 5 minutes to log back in.

[Chevrefoil]

It's a cheap way to avoid conflict/confrontation when someone wants to abandon a party. After ten years of playing MMOs, I honestly doubt that it has to do with wanting to avoid the penalty 90% of the time -- they just don't want to have to deal with looking like that guy who left party or voted abandon, so they just shut down the client and let the party wonder if they legit DC'd or not. Although it is funny when they make the mistake of logging back on too quickly

[randysquirrel]

Same thing happened to me the other day. Arrive in Halitali HM. Tank immediately announces the BRD is too undergeared and he wont run, and wants us to kick him. Stands doing nothing.

What we do? Didn't kick, just ran on, i tanked as blm and we got thru it no problem. Kicked him right before end boss just so he got no bonus/relic drop. We had to go a bit slower, but w/e, we didn't wipe. Ironically, it prob would've been quicker for him to just ditch at the beginning and take the 30 min penalty

[Set-Abominae]

uhh yea its been a thing since near launch it's called fake dc so you should always wait 5 mins to kick to catch them

[Werhusky]

Heh. We don't even AFK. We keep going depending on dungeon. If we have a SMN around we'll grab titan egi and keep going. And once the guy did come back and went. "Why didn't you kick me?" Well because we had friends that legit DCed mid runs and took 5 min to first leave the game and then another 5 minutes to log back in.

Remember the T9 DF guy... we Dfed it for the lols n mby to help some ppl even if our xp was like "oh we reached heavensfall". After 2-3 wipes in phase 1 (we hit 3 firsttimers so what you expect?) he started to spam vote abandon and got rejected every time. He then spammed chat with "Kick me kick me" we didnt do him the favour... Then he OH WONDER Dcd and we just knew its one of those fake dcs kept playing 7man and after 20 mins or so he came back and you can only imagine what comments he gave to us ^^

On the other hand real DCs can be a pain.... managed in a busy week to do dr ex with a friend... dcd at last boss qarn hmcouldnt relog 6-8 mins - got kicked...

So I always try to wait for ppl that dcd (namely if their char out n they dont relog for 10 mins they get my kick). But turning off Console/PC to fake a DC... >.>