Any way to disable this new smart un-away system?

[Souljacker]

Greetings,

There are no plans at the moment to disable this feature, however, should that change we’ll be sure to let you know.

And this is the wrong answer. Yoshi-P has had a great track record of implementing good systems that make sense and help facilitate a good game experience. This is not one of those systems. I turn on away mode for any number of reasons, and often I turn it on to alert people that I am not available to do things with them. That may be because I am on another window doing school work or it may be because I just want to watch a video on some things or read the news. It doesn't matter WHY I selected away - I selected away because I am effectively away from the GAME. The fact that I am moving my mouse outside the game window should have no bearing on my status whatsoever. It's none of your business whether I am using my computer for other things or not.

The system worked perfectly. No one asked for it to be changed (that I have been able to dredge up, NA or Japanese). No one is thanking you for this change as evidenced by the lack of "likes" on your response. Please reconsider returning a functioning system to its functioning state. Thank you.

The only reason I can think of for you forcing this is to make people actually log out of the game. If that is your goal, then just say so. At least then you will have given us a "reason" this was changed. A terrible reason, but a reason nonetheless.