Reserving instance

I just spent over an hour in this.

1st 2 queues, tank left at the 15min mark.
3rd queue, full party got in at 20mins. ALL GOT KICKED to login screen.
4th queue. 18mins mark, 1 dps didnt pay attention and misclick.
Currently 5th queue and we are just under 2hrs to reset of myth tomes.

The queue for the queue of the instance gotten stop.
Cant provide the service, dont sell so much subs.

The other issue is the fact that you can literally do everything this game has to offer in less than your 30 free days. I was thinking I probably wont be subbing because there is almost nothing left for me to do. When I do log in, I spend that time in queue for something that I have already done 50 times. Its not that I am burnt out on the game, its just there is nothing left to do.

Cant do content due to queue times + Lack of content to actually do = Lots of ppl not subbing.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

The other issue is the fact that you can literally do everything this game has to offer in less than your 30 free days. I was thinking I probably wont be subbing because there is almost nothing left for me to do. When I do log in, I spend that time in queue for something that I have already done 50 times. Its not that I am burnt out on the game, its just there is nothing left to do.

Cant do content due to queue times + Lack of content to actually do = Lots of ppl not subbing.

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"Literally" everything? ok...

I guess I should not have used the word Literally.. I had thought that a poor choice after hitting the post button. I have not maxed every crafting profession cause its not really that fun, and I have not done Coil yet. Other than that there is not much left to do. But I am not really wanting to pay $13 a month just for the privilege of grinding AK/CM 100 more times with nothing other than crafting to do.

I love this game, don't get me wrong. It is so far the best MMO I have played sense I quit WoW back when WotLK started. I just think that it was a very poor decision on the devs part to make it possible to level multiple classes up to max, be in tier 2 gear, and have nearly everything in the game done before the end of the free 30 day period. You should not be able to even come close to completing the content of any MMO in such a short amount of time.

Everything. Everything. You've levelled every class to 50. You've done every storyline quest, every sidequest, every levequest, every guildhest, every FATE, every dungeon, every trial. You have gotten 2nd Lieutenant in all three Grand Companies and earned all the relic weapons. You've done all the turns of Bahamut. You've done all that in 30 days. I'm impressed.

Hmm, 20 min queues on a Monday morning? I knew it was bad (30 mins+) after Monday reset on prime time, but never been there early Monday to see. Kind of makes sense I guess. PS: the 20-30 min numbers are *ideal* circumstances: Full party, no bugs, and no one leaving or AFK.

The main way that you get 60+ minute queues is when people leave party. Either pre-made party kicks you out of the queue completely, or DF party and it says "Party member has withdrawn". Both of those put you to back of the line essentially. Also an interesting observation: at same time there are long lines for a high-demand dungeon, other dungeons are instant start once party together.

Obviously the solution is to provide enough server resources to handle all requests. Eliminate completely the "Reserving Instance" wait. This could be done by adding more instance servers -- other thread says more coming mid-october, check Dev tracker to see. Or they could perhaps reallocate server space from the low-demand instances to serve whatever people are signing up for at the time. Whatever, just so long as "Reserving instance" goes away.

Edit: In the meantime, I recommend capping myth as soon as possible. Don't skip Mon/Tues thinking that queue times will be less later. They will be less, but you risk not capping myth.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

The other issue is the fact that you can literally do everything this game has to offer in less than your 30 free days. I was thinking I probably wont be subbing because there is almost nothing left for me to do. When I do log in, I spend that time in queue for something that I have already done 50 times. Its not that I am burnt out on the game, its just there is nothing left to do.

Cant do content due to queue times + Lack of content to actually do = Lots of ppl not subbing.

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How was the 5th turn of Binding?

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Originally Posted by ntall1

I have not maxed every crafting profession cause its not really that fun, and I have not done Coil yet. Other than that there is not much left to do...

... I just think that it was a very poor decision on the devs part to make it possible to level multiple classes up to max, be in tier 2 gear, and have nearly everything in the game done before the end of the free 30 day period. You should not be able to even come close to completing the content of any MMO in such a short amount of time.

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You have nowhere near everything completed. Hell you only have 1 job at 50 and only one over 30 (10 jobs not even past lvl 1). Why sit here an make ridiculous exaggerations when we can all see your character's stats? http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2342769/

You are absolutely, positively, nowhere anywhere remotely near to completing ANY job's content, let alone the entire game's content. Who do you think you're fooling?

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Originally Posted by Conradus

Everything. Everything. You've levelled every class to 50. You've done every storyline quest, every sidequest, every levequest, every guildhest, every FATE, every dungeon, every trial. You have gotten 2nd Lieutenant in all three Grand Companies and earned all the relic weapons. You've done all the turns of Bahamut. You've done all that in 30 days. I'm impressed.

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Originally Posted by Lunavi

How was the 5th turn of Binding?

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Originally Posted by Sinth

You have nowhere near everything completed. Hell you only have 1 job at 50 and only one over 30 (10 jobs not even past lvl 1). Why sit here an make ridiculous exaggerations when we can all see your character's stats? http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2342769/

You are absolutely, positively, nowhere anywhere remotely near to completing ANY job's content, let alone the entire game's content. Who do you think you're fooling?

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How about reading the content of the thread before replying. I one of my posts in this thread I admitted that the word "literally" was a very poor choice. And went to further explain what I ment.

The point was that the meat of the game can be completed very quickly. The story, and even all the little side quests can be done in a very short amount of time.. and you cant seriously deny that.

So my options at this point are to do Coil once a week and log off. Unless I want to spend tons of hours crafting and gathering.. Crafting and gathers are great side activites... but when that is all that is there to be done I am total bored.

In any cause... all this pointless arguing over poorly chosen words has totally derailed the thread.

"Literally" was a poor choice, so would be "theoretically" because you have absolutely 0 evidence that it is possible to complete all content in 30 days (which it is obviously not possible). I read what you posted, and it doesn't make my reply any less true. What you implied was that other people could accomplish all content in a 30 day trial period. This statement is far from true and I challenge you to provide any evidence disputing that fact. Even the Legacy players who started with 50 in all jobs have yet to complete all content. Show me one person who has.

Basically, your whole argument that this game lacks content and is simply a token grind is complete B.S. You don't have to admit that you're wrong, just stop posting out and out misinformation / exaggerations.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

How about reading the content of the thread before replying. I one of my posts in this thread I admitted that the word "literally" was a very poor choice. And went to further explain what I ment.

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I would submit that "everything" was even a worse choice. Frankly, you appear to be less than halfway there, at best.

well ntall1, you shouldnt worry, with 2.1 patch, you will see people doing crafting, lower primals over again, pvp, farming and questing for housing etc ;) Early november is what they said first it would be, hopefully, it comes at that time ^^

almost 30 mins in queue of the queue with a full team.
The tank said 1 of his FC team queued over 1h 30mins at the moment.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

I guess I should not have used the word Literally.. I had thought that a poor choice after hitting the post button. I have not maxed every crafting profession cause its not really that fun, and I have not done Coil yet. Other than that there is not much left to do. But I am not really wanting to pay $13 a month just for the privilege of grinding AK/CM 100 more times with nothing other than crafting to do.

I love this game, don't get me wrong. It is so far the best MMO I have played sense I quit WoW back when WotLK started. I just think that it was a very poor decision on the devs part to make it possible to level multiple classes up to max, be in tier 2 gear, and have nearly everything in the game done before the end of the free 30 day period. You should not be able to even come close to completing the content of any MMO in such a short amount of time.

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OMG. You didn't do all the repeatable content on every single class or level all your crafting classes up?What's wrong with you?!! You have so much left to do!

Seriously. The white knighting or trolling, can't tell which, is strong in this thread. Don't get me wrong, the leveling form 1-50 was actually quite good, especially the story. But once you get to 50, you're left doing the same exact things you did the first time to 50 on another class. Big whoop. Not to mention that FATE grinding is incredibly dull and DF for lowbie dungeons just doesn't happen. Just because this person doesn't like crafting classes doesn't mean they're missing out on the game. In fact crafting, although a decent mini game and 1000x better than 1.0, is still dull and basically worthless unless you're just making gear to SB in CM. Which leaves the topic of lv 50 content. AK until T2 tokens are capped > CM until Monday. BC? Not intended to be cleared by more than 100 people pre 2.1 and honestly is a pain the way you NEED a static to run with. Is it content? Sure, and probably the best we'll get for a while but it's not for everyone. In fact it's not for most people because of how un-friendly it is to casual players.

This post was right on. There's not much to do after you kill titan and only have more relics to farm, T2 tokens to cap per week, or CM to farm. Leveling another 50 is no new experience, especially the way the FATEs work and you don't even get to use your class mechanics or do anything, for lack of a better term, fun on the way to 50. Not bashing per say on the game, but it's a month after release and of course we need a content patch. And a bug patch. And some hot fixes. And server transfers. And more instance servers for sure because waiting 1.5 hours for an INSTANCE to get into CM is like, the most exciting thing ever.

No reason to sub until 2.1 comes out. And even then I'm sure you'll need to wait till 2.2 or so until the game gets some more flavor. I'm kinda optimistic though but it'll be some time before XIV hits it's stride.

Yesterday spent 3hrs to do a longstop run on my brd.
1st attempt decided to give "join in progress" a chance-- 45 min to find an empty dungeon
2nd attempt -- 45min and couldn't join cause I couldn't get rid of the fight status from a fate to swap back to brd(bit my fault)
3rd attempt -- 45 min wait for tank to leave during the opening CS
4th attempt -- 45min to end up with a pld that only knew how to spam rage of halone.....
so another 80 minutes for a run that was impossible to beat boss since the mofo couldn't hold hate, only got that far cause I was able to kite all the previous bosses.

Got to love the Duty finder /sigh

Nightly i spend over 30mins queuing in the queue.
I been leveling new job to make up for the waiting time inbetween but i shouldnt have to do so if i dont want to.

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Originally Posted by Shadow_viper

Yesterday spent 3hrs to do a longstop run on my brd.
1st attempt decided to give "join in progress" a chance-- 45 min to find an empty dungeon
2nd attempt -- 45min and couldn't join cause I couldn't get rid of the fight status from a fate to swap back to brd(bit my fault)
3rd attempt -- 45 min wait for tank to leave during the opening CS
4th attempt -- 45min to end up with a pld that only knew how to spam rage of halone.....
so another 80 minutes for a run that was impossible to beat boss since the mofo couldn't hold hate, only got that far cause I was able to kite all the previous bosses.

Got to love the Duty finder /sigh

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If you dont like it then dont use it. Go join a FC, run with friends, create your own party, etc. There will always be bad or new players, heck you were or still are one.

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Originally Posted by Little_Gray

If you dont like it then dont use it. Go join a FC, run with friends, create your own party, etc. There will always be bad or new players, heck you were or still are one.

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The point of the thread is that even if you queue with a full team, it still take 20-30mins of reserving instance before you can play.

Really SUX! I hate Reserving Instance! I am not hardcore player that can online 24/7 ! I back home want to play want to que AK..everyday i need 30minute MINIMUM! to get into the Dungeon! if im luck..if not need to wait more then 40minute ..wtf is this? SE u should pay more attention at this situation..people are leaving if u doesnt take ACTION!