why is it when i log out my food timer continues???

[Sove92]

Because if the food timer persisted at it's current point when you logged out or went afk, all the Culinarians would sell too little food to survive. Then they couldn't raise the gil to buy food or materials and would slowly starve to death themselves. Do you want the chefs of the world to die of starvation? Do you?

In 2.0, your food buff expired on death, 2.1 changed it to how it is now. Culinarians made this same claim how their income goes down when this was announced, but even after it happened, food still sells very well. The reason isn't really surprising, most people simply didn't use food in 2.0, now the investment is much more worth it and people use it.

But yeah, buffs running out while logged out has always been here and it's not something they are going to change. I can't think of any MMO right now where buff timers stop on log out. Kinda surprising it took tihs long until someone complained.