Logout Measures

[Aryalandi]

Sitting here trying to remember the last time I saw an mmo where the people in charge had to actively spank its player base for bad behavior.

[Pavise]

So instead of fixing the obvious exploit of using crafting to stay logged in for hours without being logged out they put in this nonsense?

Where is the logic in all of this?

[Hasrat]

Why are people complaining? More active players might actually make it into the game, even on those super servers, which might help trim down DPS queues.

[PandaPause]

Why are people complaining? .

You must be new here

[Unsung_Wanderer]

Honestly part me thinks they're game is coded in such of way where they can't remove people from the game for clicking on aether, market boards, and crafting to avoid the current AFK system otherwise why would they implement such weird afk measures. That being said depending on what time of day they do it it should clear things up nicely.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

So instead of fixing the obvious exploit of using crafting to stay logged in for hours without being logged out they put in this nonsense?

Where is the logic in all of this?

That would take development time and testing time.
And likely not even be ready in time to help with the current situation.


It should still be done though, in preperation for next time.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Bizzy]

Stop blaming Gilgamesh and Balmung! Blame SE for creating this mess... It is not the people on Balmung fault for SE merging 2 servers together back in 1.0 that created Balmung. SE knew this would happen in the first place and did nothing about it. This goes back to the start of 2.0 if I remember correctly.

[Catwho]

It is not the people on Balmung fault for SE merging 2 servers together back in 1.0 that created Balmung.

The population of 1.0 Balmung was still only a few thousand people. I was there.

[Zojha]

SE knew this would happen in the first place and did nothing about it.

Well... considering they most likely didn't even see tanks using the i270 STR accessories in Stormblood when the STR meta dates back to early HW, I very much doubt they had the foresight to realize this would happen back at the start of 2.0.

They seem far more clueless than that.

The AFK exploit in and off itself is already years old as well. They didn't bother doing anything about it all this time. Chances are, they are simply going for least-effort measures at the moment in the hopes that everyone will just unsubscribe in a few months anyway.