Logging out

[THEDarkTyger]

One minor thing that always annoyed me in Live. It's a bit better now with reduced countdown timers, but it's the fact that ANY keypress cancels the logout. I'm used to tabbing out while the countdown runs. Sure, it's only like 15 seconds max, but 15 seconds too long to be staring at the screen unable to do anything. I wonder if it could be changed to, say, esc cancelling it instead of any key...

 

For that matter, this is the only MMO I've played where esc doesn't bring up the menu. Gotta hit \ instead. There's a lot of fiddly stuff like that that doesn't jive with UI norms...

[MetaVileTerror]

I find if I hit Alt+Tab or the Windows Key on the keyboard quickly enough, I can skip the cancel period on the countdown timer.  Doesn't work with 100% precision, but it's doable often enough.
If that's not ideal for yourself, another workaround exists in playing the game in Windows mode; then you can just cursor on down to the taskbar and click another program from there.

[Extor Prime]

Isn't there an "exit now" button that closes the client and leaves your character in disconnected state for the countdown?

[THEDarkTyger]

10 minutes ago, Extor Prime said:

Isn't there an "exit now" button that closes the client and leaves your character in disconnected state for the countdown?

....yes, but that doesn't do me any good when I'm swapping characters. 😛

[MetaVileTerror]

Some Day Job zones allow for a 0 second log out timer.  That's handy too, but sadly doesn't apply at all Day Job locations for some reason.