Can someone tell me why everyone is upset about the logout timer?

[Mkilbride]

I don't really understand. 30 minutes is excessively fair.

I've played alot of games that had a 5 minute one. Now that's crap. 10 minutes is acceptable. 15 minutes pretty good. Anything over that, I consider great.

This takes strain off their server, and makes room for people, you know, playing. People who log their character in and park it overnight, take up server space that is not needed. There's no reason to do this. Your character no longer sells stuff.

How can this be anything but good? It cuts down on the server load, future downtimes will be much, much shorter, it frees up cities and areas, so better FPS.

Overall, it's a great improvement that I thought would be here day one. It was a rookie move by SE to not have it day one, so many problems would've been solved by it.

So why do I see all these upset people?

I mean, even if logged out...with one click, you can be back in in 15 seconds.

[Kaedan]

It's all the AFKers that can no longer misbehave. Don't worry, you can ignore them. The vast majority of players wanted an AFK timer and they were right to ask for it. Rude, inconsiderate players shouldn't be capable of preventing others from playing the game.

[Tezeret]

I agree.

This is a non issue. 30 minutes is generous by most MMO standards.
It takes seconds to log back in... big deal.

saves on server load, ups frame rates for those actually playing...waste less of YOUR bandwith by not keeping an active connection.

There is literally NO downside to this.
People just cry for the sake of crying....

[seikenflash]

If you think the people that where AFK where causing the server issues where other players could not log in you are sorely mistaken, if that where the case, you would have still been seeing the QQ threads after the last maintenance, but you didn't, because SE addressed the issue and now very few people have complained about still being locked out of the game. In due time, you will start to see people complaining about the AFK timer kicking them out, in due time.

So what was causing the server issues? Do you have anything to back your statement up or are you simple stating conjecture? If the servers were full, isn't it logical that afk people not logging out were causing part of the problem?

The problem was: the duty finder server and the cap on concurrent log ins, once these issues where addressed there where basically no issues where in a player could not log in. Even if all the AFK players had logged out, other players would log in and effectively reach the cap on concurrent log ins, so eventually you would have players receive the 'world is full message'. If you noticed after the maintenance to address the duty finder issues as well as the concurrent log in cap being increased there where no more complaints about log in issues. I personally have no qualms with the AFK timer, but to believe the issue with server congestion rested solely on those that where AFK is a fallacy as you can see that log in issues ceased to be an issue after the last maintenance.

[Nysneirdre]

I agree as well. IMO if you aren't actually playing you are using server resources that could be better utilized for people actually playing the game. It's not difficult to log back into the game if you get kicked. It will be ok people, trust me. It's not the end of the world.

[Ivy_Blackrose]

sorry but they were causing congestion you have no valid reason to be logged in for more than 30 minutes while ur afk

[Nysneirdre]

If you think the people that where AFK where causing the server issues where other players could not log in you are sorely mistaken, if that where the case, you would have still been seeing the QQ threads after the last maintenance, but you didn't, because SE addressed the issue and now very few people have complained about still being locked out of the game. In due time, you will start to see people complaining about the AFK timer kicking them out, in due time.

So what was causing the server issues? Do you have anything to back your statement up or are you simple stating conjecture? If the servers were full, isn't it logical that afk people not logging out were causing part of the problem?

[Kryogenic]

There is no valid argument against it. I'm not really sure why so many people are trying to defend being logged in while not playing the game. It makes no sense.

[Fyres]

It's all the AFKers that can no longer misbehave. Don't worry, you can ignore them. The vast majority of players wanted an AFK timer and they were right to ask for it. Rude, inconsiderate players shouldn't be capable of preventing others from playing the game.

But this is ruining my IMMERSION!

[Nura]

Have you anything to back up your conclusion that AFKlers where the reasion for it?

I meant it isn't like SE upped the maximum online players from 5000 to 10000 no I guess it is the AFKlers that get kicked now.

Or maybe it was the Que that was recently fixed? No I guess that still wasn't it it sure where the AFK players making all the servers go down -.-*

Just so YOU know I love the AFK Kick Timer I hate people standing around like nothing but your argument is kind of stupid.. no ofensive I mean the stupid as to not though about just typed it down and send it away.