Our cries have been answered!

[Codek]

From patch notes:

"Players who select Withdraw from the Duty Ready confirmation window or allow the window to time out without making a selection three times or more in one day, will be temporarily prohibited from registering for duties via the Duty Finder."

"This count will reset every day at 9:00 a.m. (PDT)."

[Ganvire]

This could be the entirety of patch 2.4 and I'd still be brought to tears of joy.

[LittleArrow]

From patch notes:

"Players who select Withdraw from the Duty Ready confirmation window or allow the window to time out without making a selection three times or more in one day, will be temporarily prohibited from registering for duties via the Duty Finder."

"This count will reset every day at 9:00 a.m. (PDT)."

Wow that seems a little harsh. You only get 3 withdraws? I know it's frustrating to get constant withdraws in the duty finder, but a 3 strike your locked out of content for a day method is way overboard. A 30min - 1hr cooldown would've been way more appropriate.

[EDIT] I'm referring to times that I've withdrawn b/c FC members and friends asked to join my party as soon as the que popped. That's happened - a lot. Also, I'm not saying this is bad, just the way I read the passage it sounded harsh in context of what I just typed. Hopefully I misread it though.

[Sadana]

whoa, really?? O.O I mean, wow, that's good, but wow. Link pls?

eta: Here's the prelim patch notes

eta2: Well, while I like this in theory... I'm REALLY hoping there will be some clarification. Like with pre-mades... lots of times we've added FC members to the party cause they just logged in or just caught the message that there was a group going to X dungeon. We ALWAYS say "omg, we'd get in the DF if we just had one more DPS/tank/healer" and someone says they'll go. Why can't we just add them to the queue we're in instead of having to withdraw completely? (especially in the case of tank/healer, there is no guarantee they will be put in our party if they just use the DF) :/ And will we get penalized for this? And WHO gets penalized? All of us or just the party leader? :/

I wonder if people in this thread have misread it as any withdrawal, because it's not. It's specifically when the box pops and you can go in or cancel.

/raises hand
Yep, that'd be me. Took a handful of pages before I realized this is specifically for when the DF pops up as ready. If our partial pre-made gets this far, we tell our FC mates we'll take them next time. Thanks! ^^

[Nadrojj]

Wow that seems a little harsh. You only get 3 withdraws? I know it's frustrating to get constant withdraws in the duty finder, but a 3 strike your locked out of content for a day method is way overboard. A 30min - 1hr cooldown would've been way more appropriate.

^ Seems like this guy is one of the people who will be affected by this change.


This is excellent. You queue'd for something, you withdraw more than three times, now you can't queue for a day. This is excellent.

[Renjin]

No, I like the whole day lock out. Why register for a duty if you're going to afk right after and miss it.

[Codek]

Wow that seems a little harsh. You only get 3 withdraws? I know it's frustrating to get constant withdraws in the duty finder, but a 3 strike your locked out of content for a day method is way overboard. A 30min - 1hr cooldown would've been way more appropriate.

I was also kind of thinking that but at the same time, I personally can not recall a time where I did withdraw 3 times (for good reasons) in a day.

[Teirshin]

Wow that seems a little harsh. You only get 3 withdraws? I know it's frustrating to get constant withdraws in the duty finder, but a 3 strike your locked out of content for a day method is way overboard. A 30min - 1hr cooldown would've been way more appropriate.

SE seems to have great difficulty finding that "middle ground"......

[LaylaTsarra]

Seems reasonable the way they are implementing it. Nice to see.

[WHS]

I thought the patch notes said temporary and the 3 times in a day rest the next morning around 9am pdt? I took that to mean your 3 strike would reset the next day but if you got suspended from queueing up you still could wait some time and then queue up. Kinda like they do now with the 30 minute penalty for leaving a duty. Do you really think its 3 strikes and no duty till the next day?