Please tell me the auto-login "feature" is only temporary

[Alhanelem]

Just.... log back in?

Just... no?

Why should I have to "just log back in?" Why can't I stay logged in? I explained multiple times in multiple posts how this feature does not contribute to the goals of why it was put in to begin with. This feature doesn't need to exist. It doesn't help anybody with the greater server capacity. FFXI let people stay logged in forever with no problems. There's no reason that can't be the case here.

Login problems almost entirely went away after the previous big maintenance. This feature may have been helpful during the time when everyone was getting 1017 constantly, but now that it wasn't happening without the feature, there was no good reason what soever to put it in. The benefit it provides is insignificant, and the pitfalls will at least annoy a lot of people.

If I'm kicked off, I can't scroll back and look at the company and linkshell chat that happened in my absence. There are many valid reasons to stay on even if you are AFK.

I've not had any trouble logging in since the first server expansion. Not once. I don't see any reason to not log out people who aren't playing to alleviate any unnecessary server load.

The impact of an idle player on server load is minimal. Unless a server is being given login restrictions, which more or less hasn't happened since last week on the vast majority of servers, there is no reason to log people out. You said yourself, you didn't have any trouble logging in. This means the inactive players were not having enough impact on server load to keep anyone from logging in or affecting gameplay in any measurable way.