AFK Autologout needs to come back in some degree

[tatezanamatsu]

They really need to bring it back. There are plenty of times I can't get onto some servers due to congestion, even at "off" times. Plenty of people just AFK in Limsa or wherever and hog server space. It would be a good idea to bring it back, but maybe longer than 30 mins. It was pretty bad when Endwalker came out, largely due to the queue times. Dawntrail on the other hand, on my server at the time of release I didn't spend more than 5-10 minutes in queue. 30 minutes makes sense in that situation, but in general it should be a 1-2 hour logout.

inb4 controller players rubber band their sticks together

[CVXIV]

I'm sure players were able to circumvent it through other means
but yeah, Balmung has been congested for weeks which can be a little annoying when you're trying to get cheap items off the market
Though I had even heard Mateus was congested the other day as well

[Thurmnmurmn]

I don't think the auto logout would really change the congested worlds much. There's a reason those worlds are congested. RP, raiding or hunts are common ones.

[Fawkes]

I don't think rubber bands work, I think your input needs to change to not get logged out.

[BigCheez]

The game has fewer players than it did on Shb launch and we have a lot more servers than we did back then. The chances of your server having been at capacity recently are legitimately 0.0%.

You were almost certainly just trying to log in at the same time as a hunt train was starting on your server, so the server was processing a lot of logins at the same time.

[Saraide]

They really need to bring it back. There are plenty of times I can't get onto some servers due to congestion, even at "off" times. Plenty of people just AFK in Limsa or wherever and hog server space. It would be a good idea to bring it back, but maybe longer than 30 mins. It was pretty bad when Endwalker came out, largely due to the queue times. Dawntrail on the other hand, on my server at the time of release I didn't spend more than 5-10 minutes in queue. 30 minutes makes sense in that situation, but in general it should be a 1-2 hour logout.

inb4 controller players rubber band their sticks together

The server isnt congested, the login server is just slow.

[SophiaDL]

The fact people still believe the servers are "close to capacity" and "congested" and that somehow the playerbase is at fault is hilarious

Those are the same servers that back when the big exodus happened, barely had any queues outside of certain times, now we have 1/3rd of that playerbase, and somehow the servers are "at capacity and congested"

Typical FFXIV community, believing anything it sees from SE at face value

Weird how when we had triple the playerbase the servers had 0 issues, and were never congested, but now its a big problem with barely 1/3rd of players, hmm.....

[ServerCollaps]

ýa, theres no congestion. No auto-logout needed

[miraidensetsu]

The biggest elephant in the room is bots.

They consumes a lot of server resources, they worsen economy, gives net loss to S-E and they even worsen a dungeon group experience sometimes.

So, just ban the bots and fill lawsuits against RMT sellers.

[SophiaDL]

The biggest elephant in the room is bots.

They consumes a lot of server resources, they worsen economy, gives net loss to S-E and they even worsen a dungeon group experience sometimes.

So, just ban the bots and fill lawsuits against RMT sellers.

The biggest elephant in the room is SE pretending the servers are full when we have 1/3rd of the playerbase we had before and that with absolutely no issues at all, while now apparently it's a "massive problem" and "the servers are at capacity"

Also bots are literally in any MMO that has ever existed, there's no getting rid of them, this isnt only in FFXIV, this is in any game that has any multiplayer.