SE Introduce Auto-logout please

[IronSoup]

Players generally let their character AFK while they sleep, eat or go to work BUT they are playing during "prime-time". Your inability to log during that "prime-time" has nothing to do with AFK players. The fact that only 7800 players can be logged in at the same time is the reason why. I suspect there are about 10000-12000 players on each server wanting to play during prime-time.

AFK players aren't the problem... the popularity of this game is overwhelming the servers (if everyone creating a character on a server could play, your issue would be solved).

Doing an "Auto-Logout" is just like putting a blaster on an open wound... it will continue to bleed (only a bit slower) and you will still have an open-wound.

[Canopia]

And if/when they add the auto boot afk system. All that does is raise the amount of free spots. Once all the people online are actively playing and you still get the "world is full" message, what are you going to do. Complain about all the people playing then beg for them to implement a "only play one hour, every 24 hours" feature that will auto boot you after youve played an hour and puts your account on temp 24 hour lockdown before you can log back in?

[ReplicaX]

The fact that only 7800 players can be logged in at the same time is the reason why. I suspect there are about 10000-12000 players on each server wanting to play during prime-time.

AFK players aren't the problem... the popularity of this game is overwhelming the servers (if everyone creating a character on a server could play, your issue would be solved).

Doing an "Auto-Logout" is just like putting a blaster on an open wound... it will continue to bleed (only a bit slower) and you will still have an open-wound.

To add to IronSoup's comment.

If you properly search a Server on Lodestone. You will figure out a rough estimate of the characters made. Roughly 20,000 characters made on Excalibur alone.

7,800 allowed on the server yet 20,000 total.

So yes an AFK kicker is pointless as the demand is multiple times higher then some AFK ppl currently. Excalibur can't even allow half its users on atm with the throttling.

[HamHam]

I don't understand why FFXIV team refuses to acknowledge that an auto-logout is needed. All you get is "we'll look into it". It's not like characters are selling items directly from their inventory like in 1.0. So, please add an autolog out feature for anyone that's AFK for a set period of time.

[Daniel_Black]

Yoshi-P (that is stickied on these very forums, no less) greatly contradicts what you just said.

I'm glad my post made you laugh! Unfortunately, you have read a message which isn't there. To reiterate, I rather not see such a AFK kicker implemented because in the explanations from YoshiP's past responses of server issues, AFK users weren't the cause. I did not say it wasn't being discussed or implemented. I just really hope that if it is indeed implemented, it allows for bazaars or any other afk features. Again, I emphasize the existence of the /afk icon as evidence that the developers intended for people to be away from their computers for an extended period of time. If that was not enough, we are able to accumulated rested experience while in a sanctuary while AFK. If they indeed intended for us to not be afk, they could easily strip that feature to "log out online" or even put a timer to make it less desirable.

[fides5566]

i don't care if they add it or no. But "be realistic" it's not an argument. People WILL use it if that mean he can play, meaning de facto auto-kick will be useless for everyone using a pc

So what? Instead of getting rid some off them you choose to doing nothing? Nice logic. And there are many different ways to detect that player is AFK or not even though he use some sort of automate program. Yeah some of them will surely can cheat it eventually, but a lot of them won't and by the time that most of them can figure it out, I bet that servers will be more stabilized and no need of that thing amymore.

[Gesiah]

Players generally let their character AFK while they sleep, eat or go to work BUT they are playing during "prime-time". Your inability to log during that "prime-time" has nothing to do with AFK players. The fact that only 7800 players can be logged in at the same time is the reason why.

So let me get this straight. Not being able to log on has nothing to do with AFK players. It has to do with the fact that there's a cap on the number of players that can be logged in at one time. Are you trying to say that AFK players don't count as logged in? Because they do. Sure, it'll still be frustrating to have a full server but damn is it easier to take when it's because the world is full of people playing, not full of idle toons that no one is using.

[MaiyaBeaumont]

People will ALWAYS find a way around it. You don't have to use a 3rd party program.Umm, rubber bands around a controller to make your character run around anyone? Complaining about the afk people is pointless. Until they implement it, then why continue to make more and more of these type of threads???????