Sometimes when I logout in a non-safe zone (so there's a logout timer), I get sent to the character select screen before the countdown goes to 0, before I've been actually logged out (I can see from a 2nd client that I'm not logged out yet). I think this causes people to sometimes not know that they died since they weren't aware they were still logged in and it's possible a monster came during that short time where the game was still trying to log them out, and if they died then next time they login they have probably lost all their stuff.
Sometimes when I logout in a non-safe zone (so there's a logout timer), I get sent to the character select screen before the countdown goes to 0, before I've been actually logged out (I can see from a 2nd client that I'm not logged out yet). I think this causes people to sometimes not know that they died since they weren't aware they were still logged in and it's possible a monster came during that short time where the game was still trying to log them out, and if they died then next time they login they have probably lost all their stuff.