Remove auto-logout feature

[Kosmos992k]

Auto-logout an issue for you? Face a wall and put a rock on your up arrow. Face a wall and turn your gamepad over so the stick is pushed up.

I'll be interested to see if the logout is based solely on movement, or whether messing with menus (eg crafting log) and inventory will prevent it, or indeed FC chatting.

Since checking inventory, chatting and messing around in menus are all activity it's highly unlikely that an auto-logout will ignore such activity. However controllers with auto-fire triggers, and other 'methods' for running yourself into a wall or whatever are also easily defeated since there is never going to be a 30 minute period in game where a legitimate player is almost literally sitting on the button like that.

Not to mention that the feature will undoubtedly evolve and improve over time, let's see how it works in practice and give constructive feedback from there.

[Eliseus]

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Actually, it is one factor that has attracted me to the FF mmos.

Oh know here we go, people who need to educate the rest of us because we're all idiots and they are some sort of rocket scientist and do so by taking quotes out of context and using them to support their opinions.

[Eliseus]

feedback. Lets see so far i have been called "greedy" "Selfish" Self-entitled" and told to "kill myself." Yes, these are those stellar people that SE should be listening.

This is not a industry standard, i have never played a mmo that auto kicked you; The whole rationality behind it is kinda sad.

Isn't it funny that these same people are calling us hyprocrits and pathetic etc...

[Aramyth]

Who are you? Join date August? k

Why does that matter Mr. April 2012?

[Reinheart]

First people wanted auto-afk kick, now we got thread saying remove it...
Just funny reading thread titles, lol.

I haven't had any issue logging in on my world but some worlds were still having login issues and this auto-kick will help those other players to get in while people just login to keep their characters alive. It's not like we have character bazaar anymore, so no point in staying on, that is if you can login right away without any login errors. Over time it should get easier for everyone to login so I don't see any problem with this feature being added.

Oh by the way, people should know Lv50 only get 20 posting per day (was it 25? I think was 20)
Use it wisely, one person all heated up in here used up 16 posts already, so just giving a friendly note

[Eliseus]

Why does that matter?

Why did his post matter? It was in response to his post. Did you even read it?

[Noata]

Welsper59 you beat me to explaining it, just know your not alone, your thinking correctly you are just dealing with an entitled brat. so common sense, logic and reason are not something they use. its all about WANT, OWED, GIMME.

[stanrir]

lol wait there is an auto logout feature? when was this added? and how come I never..... ooooh cause i never AFK for 30 minutes :P

[Ralemont]

It made sense not to have one for Final Fantasy XI where bazaars became important. Bazaars don't exist in 14. GW2, WOW, and SWTOR have auto-kick, so it's well precedented.

I don't see the issue. It is extremely easy to log back in. If you aren't around to press a key every 25 minutes, then you aren't around to accept a duty finder invite, either, so I don't think that's a good justification.

[MagusVandel]

feedback. Lets see so far i have been called "greedy" "Selfish" Self-entitled" and told to "kill myself." Yes, these are those stellar people that SE should be listening.

This is not a industry standard, i have never played a mmo that auto kicked you; The whole rationality behind it is kinda sad.

I don't think that people should be attacking individuals for their opinions either(although, no hypocrisy here, I've done it in the past). In my opinion there are far less cons to the AFK kick than pros. I'm not going to list them yet again, because there are 14 pages dedicated to the back and forth, but if you are going to defend either side, please back it up. That said, sorry to the people who are kicking and screaming at the AFK booter, but you'll have to work a lot harder to convince me that it is an inconvenience to click 3 buttons to log back in when you have been gone for over half an hour.

It doesn't auto-kick you for just typing on chat, from what I understand. It auto-kicks for you "not being there at all." I apologize if this is not correct, but even then, one arrow up every 30 minutes doesn't sound like a hassle. Don't act like someone pooped in your Easter basket if no one actually did.