Auto-logout exploit?

[Scratchs]

From: The People Against the Wussification of Eorzea

It seems to me we have a growing group of people who are ACTIVELY and OVERLY concerned what other people are doing that has NO affect on them.

Please sit dafuq down.

Thank You.

Ok normally I'd agree but in Uldah and Mor Dhona there are so many elite statues standing around with their weapons drawn all day, as well as other characters that are less obvious about it. It makes Uldah and Mor Dhona really laggy. So it does effect those of us without the best computer hardware. We count too.

[Nihility]

why are people so desperate to never be logged out to begin with?

It takes all of 30 seconds to get back in game and if you don't input anything at all for 30 minutes your clearly doing nothing but wasting a little bandwidth and cluttering servers.
Is it just people have grown to be so lazy that typing in a user password is too much to ask for?

[BlazeChronic]

Your mentality is why MMOs are cesspools now - "Why do you care that people are exploiting systems?" ...Ok.

*Whooosh*

Because bot-mining and being AFK in a town clearly have the same impact on other people. People AFK'ing has absolutely no impact on anybody at all except the people doing it. Bot-mining affects EVERYONE. Not the same thing. AT ALL.

"Look Jimmy, that guy is AFK, it's ruining my MMO experience!"

[VitoScaletta]

Auto log out was necessary only for the first week because of game breaking bugs, if anything it should now be removed. Even XI doesn't make you logout.

[Eliseus]

Hahaha GOOD! I hope the people keep doing this and many other ways till SE finally removes the feature!

[Deculture]

Even if they "fixed" this, there are a lot of other ways to make you stay logged in that I don't see them easily changing. I hear the Japan servers are still having a lot of stability issues; hopefully auto-logout will be removed when their servers are more stabilized.

[Noata]

The auto logout feature is not just to keep Q's down. The tool is not suddenly no longer needed. the entire purpose is to keep resources and server stability. Its not a major game changing feature, but its one of those small things that really help keep the servers clean. The fact people are doing this is the Definintion of exploit Exploit - to take advantage of (a person, situation, etc.), esp unethically or unjustly for one's own ends.

All big MMO's have this feature, so its here to stay learn to deal with it. At this point all you can do is report these people so maybe they can get it through there thick skull that you don't AFK. Its not about just server Q's the use is multi faceted and that is exactly why the other MMO companiies use this feature. Outside "It is no longer needed" immediately followed by a server Q reference. you have NO reason at all for it to be removed. hell you don't even have a good reason with the server Q's being down. after a maintenance or expansion you could easily experience the same issue as launch day if you did not have this feature in place. There is not a reason to not have this feature. whine all you want, I see someone AFK, gonna report them.

[necrosis]

A better question, now that there are no more queues to log in...

Why do you care what other people do?

How does this affect you in any way?

It affects me by having stupidly high lag in towns and 'outposts' because TONS of people standing around AFK. After they added the 30 min kick system it was fantastic in towns. No clicking the crystal 15 times to get the menu to warp somewhere.

[Swishytail]

It affects me by having stupidly high lag in towns and 'outposts' because TONS of people standing around AFK. After they added the 30 min kick system it was fantastic in towns. No clicking the crystal 15 times to get the menu to warp somewhere.

No use trying to explain. This thread is full of horses with blinkers on. Just run while you can.
I wish I could live such a simplistic life.

[Aenarion]

All big MMO's have this feature

Never mind the fact that the size of the game doesn't really matter in this topic, Eve Online, one of the larger subscription based MMO left, does not have a logout timer - in fact, afking is actually a valid resource-denial tactic in wars.

I see someone AFK, gonna report them.

Knock yourself out, ironically you will be the one doing actual harm to the game, by cluttering up a support system already stretched thin dealing with actual issues.