Your Character is Already Logged In Woes

[Kouren]

Please, SE, fix this! Make it so requesting to log back in disconnects our character. Make them time out after 60s of having a break in connection. Something! The time it takes our characters to log off in dungeons is currently so long, it's longer than the timer on drop chests. Disconnect while loot is being distributed? Sorry, better luck next time. I missed out on a chance to roll on the only Enbarr whistle I've ever seen this way, and it's heartbreaking.

FF14 is the only MMO I've played with this sort of reconnect issue. It's been almost a year; please do something about it.

[DoubleT]

this issue has existed since ffxi, its not going to change. they do auto-log u out tho, not 60 seconds, but 5 mins

[Kouren]

I can't help feel you may be missing the point. Just because it's a long-standing issue doesn't mean it doesn't need to be fixed. The auto log out is currently significantly longer than the chest timer, making it impossible to lot items if you disconnect while they're being distributed, even if you're back and trying to log in long before that. Either make the chest timer longer (imo, not an ideal solution), or make trying to log back in disconnect our characters.

[Rufalus]

I wish it would not spit you back to the title screen while you attempt to reconnect but rather keep you loaded in the area and frozen until connection is reestablished.

[LeonBlade]

Why don't you fix your internet instead and you wont have this problem. In all seriousness, how do you expect them to FIX this problem? You clearly know nothing about networking or how this issue even exists, so I'll just say this.

It's not going to get fixed.

[Titor]

If you disconnect during a synthesis you lose everything. It will also lock you out of the game for like 5-6 minutes. I wish I could have reconnected and finished the synth.
This really sucked when I had spotty internet.

[Viridiana]

this issue has existed since ffxi, its not going to change. they do auto-log u out tho, not 60 seconds, but 5 mins

I've had it take 10 minutes before, so I doubt the accuracy of this.

Why don't you fix your internet instead and you wont have this problem. In all seriousness, how do you expect them to FIX this problem? You clearly know nothing about networking or how this issue even exists, so I'll just say this.

It's not going to get fixed.

I'm just going to point out that WoW has long had a system where a new connection will automatically boot any previous connection. . .

[Kouren]

Please refrain from making assumptions about my or others' internet. Connection failure isn't why I disconnected.

I have long been playing MMOs. FF14 is the only MMO I have encountered with this particular problem. WoW isn't the only one that's found ways around it; there are numerous others to reference. I would say it is the industry standard at this point, and maintain it should be addressed in FF14.

[Lunami]

Why don't you fix your internet instead and you wont have this problem. In all seriousness, how do you expect them to FIX this problem? You clearly know nothing about networking or how this issue even exists, so I'll just say this.

It's not going to get fixed.

Because this game doesn't have a longstanding issue of random and sudden 90k disconnects when your connection is flawless otherwise, or anything.

[Tupsi]

this issue has existed since ffxi, its not going to change. they do auto-log u out tho, not 60 seconds, but 5 mins

Erm, in XI you can knock people/yourself offline if you log in - which was a source of many woes due to hacking. Under normal circumstances that is. It's very unlikely they'll change that because this prevents hackers from knocking you offline immediately, so incase you know/feel you've been compromised, they can't do a thing to you while you're logged in. It takes only a few minute or less to log your character out when you disconnect.

So no it's not an issue, it's by design - They can change it sure but it was requested by people during 1.0 era to disallow being kicked off due to the hacks in XI back in the day.

Because this game doesn't have a longstanding issue of random and sudden 90k disconnects when your connection is flawless otherwise, or anything.

90k = The error code, that's nothing special to MMORPG. The issues, which confirmed by SE and even other companies were with providers like Level3.net and Sky, not the game specifically. Also, if your net works "flawlessly" then you don't understand how it works - internet is never flawless, especially in the states and europe which has some of the oldest architecture lol.