[Suggestion] an Auto log out feature

[viion]

Not keen on the idea, and idk how you guys are getting insane electric bills. Only cost me like £25 electric, 2/3rds was used while i was awake so it costs very little in the UK. I do have a decent rig tho. Even with logout the PC still be running thus using power, sure not as much but still some so when you remove the amount i'd use it anyway then remove the amount for just windows, the game itself doesnt add much.

[Kafeen]

If you're worried about your electric bill, can't you just log out yourself then turn off your PC?

Why should SE be worrying about people's electricity bill?

Take some responsibility yourself. SE has other things to be doing.

[Antipika]

If you're worried about your electric bill, can't you just log out yourself then turn off your PC?

Why should SE be worrying about people's electricity bill?

Take some responsibility yourself. SE has other things to be doing.

That's a sensitive matter in Japan you know. So yes they should worry about it and I think it's a great idea if it can be configured by the player.

Bonus: Add an auto GPU limitation feature that would cap the frame rate at 5~7fps while being AFK for an extended period of time. I personally lower my framerate cap at 30fps when I don't need to do anything gameplay related. It saves power, especially with power hungry GPU (hi2u GTX580).

If you just want to leave your character online overnight, framerate doesn't matter.

[Kafeen]

That's a sensitive matter in Japan you know. So yes they should worry about it and I think it's a great idea if it can be configured by the player.

Then you can save even more power, instead of just having the game log you out, you can use the power saving settings in Windows to automatically shut down your PC or put it into sleep mode.

Alternatively, you can take a second to type /shutdown if you're going to be away for an extended period.

Almost all of those players standing around AFK are doing so because they choose to do so, not because of some system forced upon them by the lack of an auto-logout feature. Those same people would simply turn it off given the choice so they can continue to stand around AFK.

[Laraul]

How would auto log save power? I mean it's not going to quit the game, just exit to the character select screen with a message "you've been logged out of the server to do an extended period of inactivity." Sure less power maybe used, but the difference is going to be marginal.

[Zenaku]

How about you make your pc go to sleep if your afk for too long? that would close FFXIV and stop your pc from using up power.

Problem fix without SE saying wait for 2.0

[Nopax]

This sadly, is not a sarcastic post:

One of the big things in FFXI was getting jeunopose/whitegatepose gear, such as m. body on PLD or AF2 on a wide variety of jobs. In addition the Rolanberry Fields/Batallia Downs (depending on your server) bazaars were an important aspect of the endgame to many people.

I can already see this mindset has continued into XIV, on Balmung I regularly see in battle pose, people AFK with subpar gear solely because it's from Garuda and looks cool.

That's why this feature would be fine, but it would HAVE to be optional. It would save a very little on your electric bill I believe since your PC would use a tad less power.

If you find my post sarcastic, please just respect it and try to respond as such. It truly is legit and myself and many of the people I know and used to know did play FFXI for gear to AFK in. It was also important to those of us not interested in it for jeunopose because it kept old timers with the top gear such as defending rings around for longer.

[Kayokane]

Auto log is something I can get behind, mainly because these afk players tend to park themselves in high density areas for long periods of time 1+ hours. Not to mention they take up space on the search feature no one uses. (supposedly)
It seems foolish that players with lesser computers should have to suffer slowdown due to 50+ Mary Sue's needing to afk at any given time.

[Answa]

People pay for their characters and have every right to keep them logged on for every picosecond the servers are up. If you want to, you know, not spend money on your electric bill by logging off your character, I think.... logging off your character could work.

Now, I wouldn't be opposed to an autolog feature like in FFXI, which had different choices (KEY WORD: choices) for idle times until the game would shut down by itself. You also had the choice to turn it off altogether. That'd be fine by me.

[rina_inverse]

Hilarious responses
I found it funny that people actually being butthurt bout their privilege

Anyway, I will update my first post with this inputs