At this point most serious players have already gotten everything to 100 and geared the jobs they wanna play so no reason to queue for stuff. The casuals have done the story and have no intention of playing anything else. You're unfortunately stuck waiting on the midcore players to pop the queues during a patch cycles downtime. That's just the issue with 1 patch every 4 months.
There is just simply not enough to keep people going. Stuff like Island Sanctuary and Space Exploration needs cut for actual repeatable content. This isn't Animal Crossing, and they need to stop pretending it is. If they want to start doing the all games in one strategy then they need a bigger team. It's not gonna work on drip feed.
Is EU pretty much dead?
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08-31-2025, 11:07 PMAsako
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09-01-2025, 12:11 AMHallarem
Its a dripfeed problem. They dont have decent content to put good rewards into even if they came up with some.
Island sanc had so much potential to even replace player housing, but in lieu of that they a 100% made it so it would never compare. To keep subs going no doubt.
Space exploration aside from ruining the worldbuilding imo was just a repetitive boring activity in a very boring looking zone. I dont see how adding colorful alien trees will make it any better.
Theres a lot of old grinds, but a lot of them are ludicrous, like "play this one content 10 0000 times" its dreadful solo, most of the games MMO aspects are completely reliant on the players creating them if you think about group stuff.
They should add more QoL for that, more housing improvements, glamour improvements, FC improvements. Grand company improvements. Remove the exploration mode timer and add raids in. Make the world more alive with enterable houses. More character customization and longevity content -
09-01-2025, 12:18 AMHallarem
Also in the story for immersions sake, you need to make people attached to something. Much like the horde / alliance in WoW. People want to be apart of something. Even the Eorzean Alliance, whatever. Hell even the Scions are as loose as it gets of "are they or are they not".
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09-01-2025, 02:26 AMRaoabolicI think they are worried the writers might be called nationalistic if they go down that route. They complained when some armor looked a little too Spainard, I can see the usual suspects get really upset about that sort of storyline, lolQuote:
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09-01-2025, 03:22 AMSani2341Yeah. At least on Zodiark there's usualy some Mentors around to help out. Be it by queueing with you as Tank/Healer. Or just unsyncing it if you want that instead.Quote:
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09-01-2025, 08:55 AMAraxes
The Game is declining yes, quite significantly so it seems. Just saw a video of SE's earnings call and it appears FFXIV in case of Players and/or earnings is down to Stormblood levels. The game is not Dead YET but if they keep going like this the Situation might become more dire.
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09-01-2025, 09:14 AMCommander_Justitia
When you were mentor for years, but then you are not interested to level every role to 100 anymore, so you lose your status - too bad, can't join mentor roulette and help people. Makes queues slower too.
I think the requirements are too demanding. And there is PvP mentor, for people who never did 1 match PvP in their life, lol
I would have liked a 2nd Mentor Roulette for trials or ex trials specifically even. Way more fun than just leveling dungeons.
But I guess you fellow players can suffer in queue instead of devs making mentor status more easy to get, enjoy! -
09-01-2025, 07:00 PMNyastra... I am confused about how difficult Mentor status really is to get? Like... the hardest part is maybe just being nice and getting the required commendations but other than that, it's not exactly "hard" to get Mentor status.Quote:
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09-01-2025, 07:04 PMNyastraLike... genuinely... this is the requirements?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nyastra
Battle Mentor Requirements
Complete Role Quests: Finish the current expansion's role quest lines for Tank, Healer, and at least one DPS role.
Complete Duties: Complete 1,000 instanced duties (dungeons, raids, or trials).
Earn Commendations: Receive 1,500 player commendations.
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09-01-2025, 07:15 PMShistar
I hope you got your queue pop, OP. If you're still struggling with it, I can gather some people and we can try our hand at it for faster queues.
I personally haven't had issues filling roulettes, EXs (most of the time) or unreals (takes a bit sometimes, but it ends up filling usually) in our lovely dead DC known as Chaos, so I doubt it was anything more than a particularly unlucky weekend. It is possible that another game's update just came out, or people were more into other things during that time.
I am not fully sure, but I vaguely remember reading that your ticked languages no longer influence your queue times. I think it just queues you with whoever nowadays, but again, I am not fully sure. I only have English ticked myself and I've been queued with people who literally can't understand English. Made me pull out Google Translate in UWU to explain the mechanics to them. lol (EDIT: This was a PF, but PFs also have ticked languages, which I think default to your own that you set in your search info. Nothing stops anyone from joining a PF or, I am assuming, a roulette with players who don't match your ticked languages)