Against "Simultaneous Logout Measures"

[Mikhaill]

Home now.
3:17 pm. 26 in Q, cancel/login = Instant log in Balmung
No Server congested, I can see my character as soon as I log in.
It worked. I would be in 1-3k but either way I would of waited 4 hours.
So this confirmed that at this time frame, it works. THANK GOD.

[curather]

It's 15 minutes people. 15 minutes. You will live.

As a healer with an instant queue, I wouldn't be mad either.

[UnstablePersonality]

You say that.
You'll promptly change your mind when you see the 2-3k player queue my friend.

had 90 queue, it was gone in like 30 seconds.

[Xandos]

No other game forces their players to log out once a day, whether it be an MMO or other genre.

Eve Online has a mandatory server logout every single day. Server maintenance is conducted for up to an hour each day. Typically maintenance is completed within 10-15 minutes though. After that every player has to log back in.

Edit: Looks like it was officially shortened to 15 minutes. Source

The main difference I see here is that Eve does that at 11:00 UTC. It sounds like SE is going to be doing this right before or during prime time.

[Kethic]

As a healer with an instant queue, I wouldn't be mad either.

I won't pretend it isn't an interruption or an inconvenience. But today was during their lowest volume time of day, when yes, DPS queues were probably at their absolute longest due to many people doing daytime things. But even on the most congested server with the longest queues, this can only be good. Now that tank and healer that would be running your dungeon with you can log in, instead of being locked out by an AHK bot.

[HyperSMB]

Home now.
3:17 pm. 26 in Q, cancel/login = Instant log in Balmung
No Server congested, I can see my character as soon as I log in.
It worked. I would be in 1-3k but either way I would of waited 4 hours.
So this confirmed that at this time frame, it works. THANK GOD.

Lamia reporting
3:18 P.M. 60 in Que, cancel/login = Instant

[CassandraJean]

I wonder how many AFKers logged back in and AFKed again.

I had some fun watching everyone log back in around the Summoning bell in Rhalgar's Reach and immediately afk again, their little afk chairs popping up.

[Chrallmal]

If you are on a lower population server that sees little-to-no wait times, this outage is silly and puts you at a net loss. I'm on Exodus. A minute wait time is a hardship for me. Spending 10-15 minutes on an outage to temporarily resolve a 1 minute wait is a net loss of 9-14 minutes of productivity. It does me no good.

If you're on Balmung, you could be saved hours worth of waiting, so it is well worth it. Although, eventually - the folks that were gumming up the pipes by going AFK will log back in and do it again. You're buying yourself a very small window of temporary relief. For high-congestion worlds, this is much needed. For low-congestion worlds, this is an incredible inconvenience.

10-15 minutes might not sound like much, but for someone who has only an hour or two to play a day (if that), this can be incredibly problematic. If they're going to do it, it should be for the benefit of the players its affecting. Not just some of the players.

[curather]

I had some fun watching everyone log back in around the Summoning bell in Rhalgar's Reach and immediately afk again, their little afk chairs popping up.

Remote desktop into your home machine during a work break and anti-afk kick is negated.

[Rita1989]

I logged into 1300 queue and it took about 15 minutes yesterday that would be 2 hours easily