FFXIV: People are circumventing the auto-log timer and staying logged in indefinitely

[Morphiana]

Right now the queues are barely going down in number. In large part that's due to many people not logging out at all. Methods to get around the afk auto-log out system have been getting shared by players en mass. This is bad because it isn't letting people who want to actively play log in and pressures more people to do the same as this becomes common knowledge. It's getting to the point that the auto-log mechanism isn't even there anymore.

Purposefully getting around a system like this is against the ToS but I think it's something that needs a patch...

To my knowledge people are doing it by:

-Staying at the retainer bell having their retainer active (which explains the large, never moving crowds around these bells).
-Opening a crafting window then just staying like that.
-Getting into a cutscene then just leaving it.

Please patch these things SE so the queue line can get moving again. It's not fair to those of us who are playing by the rules and logging out appropriately.