Quitting from within the game bug.

Tyralbin

Guys would advise not to quit from within the game but to log out and quit from character selection screen (press back on selection screen to get to password entry screen you can quit from there).

Quitting from within the game seems to possibly leave you logged in.

Had a friend that had logged out over 90 minutes ago still being logged in the game.

This could cause queuing issues later.

Reported in bugs forum.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/502541/quitting-from-in-game/p1?new=1

Spartabunny08

That's impossible. If they were in group and logged out sometimes they still show up as logged in but they are not there. More like server failure to update the UI for you to see they're gone. Run many groups this happens everyday in cyrodiil. There is also due to inactivity a log out mechanism so it's impossible lol. Not with ZOS huh lol.

Tyralbin

Not impossible.

I was talking to a friend on discord that had been logged out over 2 hours but was still showing as logged in though you couldn't whisper her.

In the guild roster it showed her as logged in but no level info was there.

Check it out for yourself if you in a guild

caperb

Best is when you can still see their healthbar floating in the air and they had crown. Good luck inviting friends to the group.

phileunderx2

I'm having to shut the game down now with task manager.

LuxLunae

Well I don't know if this was fixed by zos but we saw something similar when queueng.. I logged off as a tank but it still had me in the queue.. lol.. It didn't kick my bro out of queue when I logged off...

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/499360/bug-dungeon-finder

Salix_alba

make sure that he didn't force quit vs letting the 10 second timer run down because there is a warning about that exact thing happening right on the timer window

LuxLunae

Salix_alba wrote: »

make sure that he didn't force quit vs letting the 10 second timer run down because there is a warning about that exact thing happening right on the timer window

wait you are taking to me? No I was logged and he stayed in queue still lol... just think what would happen if it still held that spot and the person was afk and booted...

Salix_alba

wait you are taking to me? No I was logged and he stayed in queue still lol... just think what would happen if it still held that spot and the person was afk and booted...[/quote]

Sorry no I was responding to the op i just forgot to use the quote feature

vamp_emily

I wouldn't be shocked if the player just changed status to "offline" and discard thought the user was playing online mode.

SeaGtGruff

I never understood why there's an option to "force quit now," or whatever the popup says, and remain logged in on the server even though you're exiting the game. Is there supposed to be some advantage to doing that? Is there a situation in which I might want to do that? And if a large number of players remained logged in on the server even though they'd exited the game, would it put more stress on the server? So many questions!

Tyralbin

Salix_alba wrote: »

make sure that he didn't force quit vs letting the 10 second timer run down because there is a warning about that exact thing happening right on the timer window

Yeah I wondered about that too.

If quitting is causing problems them the quit option should be disabled completely with a message stating to log out then quit.

SeaGtGruff

Yeah, if perhaps the original purpose of the popup was simply to warn people that being impatient and forcing the game to quit would cause them to remain logged in on the server, then maybe the popup needs to be change to something like "Thank you for your patience while your character is being logged out prior to quitting. Quitting in 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Goodbye!"

Tyralbin

Took a couple of screen shots so you guys could see what is happening.

All those that have no lvl info are actually offline.

This could cause (or could have already been causing) login issues at busy periods.

Tyralbin

And the servers went down just like I suggested they would.

I think this may have contributed.

DoonerSeraph

Quitting? B-but can I have your stuff?

Tyralbin

DoonerSeraph wrote: »

Quitting? B-but can I have your stuff?

Read the title this is not a quitting thread but a bug when you quit from within the game.

D0PAMINE

Tyralbin wrote: »

Guys would advise not to quit from within the game but to log out and quit from character selection screen (press back on selection screen to get to password entry screen you can quit from there).

Quitting from within the game seems to possibly leave you logged in.

Had a friend that had logged out over 90 minutes ago still being logged in the game.

This could cause queuing issues later.

Reported in bugs forum.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/502541/quitting-from-in-game/p1?new=1

I've had this happen to aa few friends. I think it's a UI bug that affects those who were previously grouped whether they left or not. I don't believe they're still logged in the server as I have seen them disappear, but could be very slow server response to update their online/offline status.

Tyralbin

D0PAMINE wrote: »

Tyralbin wrote: »

Guys would advise not to quit from within the game but to log out and quit from character selection screen (press back on selection screen to get to password entry screen you can quit from there).

Quitting from within the game seems to possibly leave you logged in.

Had a friend that had logged out over 90 minutes ago still being logged in the game.

This could cause queuing issues later.

Reported in bugs forum.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/502541/quitting-from-in-game/p1?new=1

I've had this happen to aa few friends. I think it's a UI bug that affects those who were previously grouped whether they left or not. I don't believe they're still logged in the server as I have seen them disappear, but could be very slow server response to update their online/offline status.

The friend I was talking to on discord had not been grouped with anybody.

She only logged in to get her daily reward.

She was only on ESO for about 5 minutes and she was still showing online 2 hours later even after I had ported to different zones.

phermitgb

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I never understood why there's an option to "force quit now," or whatever the popup says, and remain logged in on the server even though you're exiting the game. Is there supposed to be some advantage to doing that? Is there a situation in which I might want to do that? And if a large number of players remained logged in on the server even though they'd exited the game, would it put more stress on the server? So many questions!

since you ask, I think there are two issues at work here. The first was rage quitting, or whatever people call it these days. There was (and probably still is) a habit for some people to log out fast when it looks like they're going to lose/die, for...reasons. A lot of games, once this became a recognized habit, added a delay to the server logout, so that even if you shut down the program on your end, your character would stay logged into the server for a few seconds more so the people that were about to kill you actually could, so you couldn't just avoid defeat by shutting down the program.

so, right now, the game keeps you logged in for 10 seconds, and you can watch what's happening while you're force quitting (I think the chat window keeps updating during this time as well). But, you can FORCE QUIT, which doesn't actually do anything to your character logged into the server (you're still gonna be there for 10 seconds), but at least YOU can open a webpage or start up another program while your character stays logged in for the requisite timer.

that MIGHT answer your question. Hope it helps.