small suggestions

[Nayt]

what I don't see is why my friend who happens to be in my party can't log out of the game while being on the other end of the world, should I find myself in a battle.

[Elexia]

what I don't see is why my friend who happens to be in my party can't log out of the game while being on the other end of the world, should I find myself in a battle.

Poor optimization and the other technical step back from XI's systems. It's all serverside, so it's too much data likely needing to be interpreted since to even log out you need to send the request, wait for a response, get a response then it initiates logout, while in battle (even more data being sent about/to you) it likely doesn't like that so it's an auto fail safe.

XIV has actions relating to active and passive mode, it makes sense in the regard you need to be in the appropriate mode.