Remove auto-logout feature

[Darklordkjell]

Good that they made this. Perhaps players can finally start to enjoy the game instead of waiting to get online half the day.

[DukeGr]

Seriously some people whine just about anything nowadays, basic networking knowledge applied here, its toxic to keep active connections when they are not needed, they stress the servers for no reason. Why should everyone suffer extra loads and lag just because someone wants to be logged in all day in town doing nothing.

Just relog, takes max 10 seconds, end of story.

[Zehira]

Did they just add it? Where will it send you to? Main Menu? I am fine with that but they need to remove auto-movie feature during the main menu.

[Raeletta]

30 minutes is stupidly short. I often tab out when I'm using the duty finder and watch something or cruise the net till I hear the sound effect. Having to stop every 25 minutes just to make sure I don't get logged is going to be annoying, assuming I remember.

Additionally I like to catch up on what has been said recently when I get back to the game.

And before you complain: I log out for sleep and for work. If it triggered at 2 or 3 hours it'd get rid of the sleepers and 24 hour logins and leave the rest of us alone. As is it's just going to get on my nerves if I lose track of time when waiting on the DF, relogging, re-queueing and waiting even longer will piss a lot of people off.

[3Jane]

Really? In this day and age? I guess my expectations for SE are too high.

30 minutes is far too short, should have been a minimum of one hour. The initial post launch rush is easing, after a little longer it might not be necessary anyway.

[Dazusu]

I like to stay logged in - but they could have been smarter about this adjustment. I feel like SE have missed a trick by implementing this without more thought, for example:

Alternative #1: If the general world population is low, increase the time before automatic logout. For example, 90-120 minutes. If there are less than 2K people logged in, there's no reason to start kicking people off the servers.
Alternative #2: Don't auto-logout anyone initially, until server queues happen (or login cap is nearing). At this point, disconnect the players who have been idle the longest, over a minimum of 30 minutes.

The current logout after 30 minutes seems excessive, and archaic. DukeGr made a point about server stress, and network stress - this day in age, the pipes hosting these games are made for this type of data throughput (if not, more), and I'm pretty sure hardware burning out isn't our problem. It never hurt FFXI to stay logged in 24/7. It definitely won't hurt this game.

[Pururin]

+1 OP

First off, everyone didn't ask for it. And auto log-out is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of in a mmo. Just because some less then stellar people tend to be more vocal then others doesn't make it a majority issue. I shouldn't even have to be posting right now, like i didn't post to people asking for it saying "What are you 12? or on a xbox?". But a few less they stellar people had to spam a moronically bad idea.

[Usotsuki]

Totally needed, thank you Square Enix. Now DD's get kicked when they surf on the desktop while in Dungeon Browser for an hour or more and forget to move their character every now and then.

[Violent_Vengeance]

Really? In this day and age? I guess my expectations for SE are too high.

[jimm0thy]

First off, everyone didn't ask for it. And auto log-out is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of in a mmo.

And yet almost every MMO has it .... odd