Dungeon Queue Penalty

[AnimaAnimus]

Solution is a “penalty removal token” that can be bought from the MOG store, perhaps $2.99 a shot.

Nice try EA

[Frizze]

Nice try EA

Youre right. $2.99 is way too cheap. You might be able to get 5-10 times that much. While theyre at it, add Fast Pass. Activate the token, and whatever you que for next automatically puts you at the front of the matchmaking line. Charge 'em $99.99 for the privilege.

[Tohe-Spidhire]

Youre right. $2.99 is way too cheap. You might be able to get 5-10 times that much. While theyre at it, add Fast Pass. Activate the token, and whatever you que for next automatically puts you at the front of the matchmaking line. Charge 'em $99.99 for the privilege.

Automatic queue priority would sell like hotcakes at $4.99 a pop.

[Frizze]

Automatic queue priority would sell like hotcakes at $4.99 a pop.

I paid five dollars to run Sephirot Extreme synced and the whole group quit like 5 seconds into the run. The players of this game are the worst, and im telling my credit card company to dispute that charge.

[EZ5902]

If you're having to miss a queue because of a RL incident, I'd hope you'd be more focused on dealing with that for the next 30 mins or so rather than fussing because you're locked out of the duty finder in a game for a little while

This post says it all.

[DogLeg]

You all sound angry lol. Trying to give bad advice about how someone should live their life LMAO! I guess none of you have had to take a dump and missed a queue lol. And I'm retired so I literally have all 24 hours of a day to miss 3 queue's. Try harder please. Bunch of troll kids here lol. That's the problem with forums, always some antagonizers with nothing better to do but give negative input on every post that they see lol.

[Vidu]

You all sound angry lol. Trying to give bad advice about how someone should live their life LMAO! I guess none of you have had to take a dump and missed a queue lol. And I'm retired so I literally have all 24 hours of a day to miss 3 queue's. Try harder please. Bunch of troll kids here lol. That's the problem with forums, always some antagonizers with nothing better to do but give negative input on every post that they see lol.

Actually... no, I never missed a queue because I had to go to the bathroom.
If I know (or suspect) that I'll be afk (and not be able to make it back as soon as I hear the queue pop) for more than a couple of minutes, I'll withdraw my queue - and if only out of consideration for my fellow players who shouldnt have to deal with me withdrawing in the last second, potentially sending them right back into a lengthy queue.

How is it "bad life advice" when people tell you to take care of any real life issues you might have before queuing for a duty? How is it "bad life advice" to say: "Hey, before you sit down to start play a game with other people, make sure you actually got the time for that!" And how is it bad advice to say "Well, if you did miss the queue because of something irl, maybe that was more important than the queue to begin with"?
You get 3 freebies each day - if you manage to be afk for 3 queues in a day, you probably should reconsider when you queue for stuff...

Grats though - if you're retired and have all day to play, not getting to run a duty shouldnt be to much of an issue. Theres plenty to do ingame that doesnt require the DF and you've got 23,5h left in the day to queue for dungeons. Or take care of anything irl that needs to be taken care of before you're ready to queue up.

[Risvertasashi]

Please remove the 30 minute time penalty for queuing for missing queue's or having to abandon a duty. I can only speak for myself but having IRL things that come up takes priority so missing queue's. I feel like getting penalized for such things is not right, at least not for an entire half an hour. Im sure I'm not the only one who has proposed this. Now lets hear all the troll comments? "Well then don't have a life then?!" Welp, sorry but some of us have families and jobs and such and aren't all single living in their mothers basement cramming hot pockets in their mouths and guzzling 2 liters of Mountain Dew by the minute at the age of 25. Sorry try harder trolls! GOTEEM 2EZ! BEATYATOIT!

The penalty exists because
1. People trolled the queue back when it wasn't there. You could literally have withdraws going for 30+ minutes and not be able to get into an instance.
2. People left any time they didn't get their preferred instances.

Yes, it's not nice when there's a legitimate reason for leaving, but it's necessary to have some penalty because of how it gets abused when there isn't.

If something RL comes up and it's important enough to leave, then just take the 30 minute penalty and work on something else until it's up. I'll do this even if it's just a toxic party that isn't worth my time, personally. RL comes first, and losing 30 minutes in a video game doesn't really matter in the end.

Lastly, you can ask the party to kick you to avoid the penalty. Just quickly explain the urgent thing that came up (like just 1 or 2 lines should be fine), and in my experience, most of them are understanding enough to dismiss you from the party.

[Brightamethyst]

The penalty exists to prevent trolls from screwing with the queue. People on tank jobs queueing and immediately declining over and over, making the queue a mess for everyone else. (source: it happened, which is why they added the penalty in the first place.)

[kujoestars]

Without the penalty, people would constantly leave dungeons they don't like.

This is the sad reality of things. Also, I've accidentally missed queues before because my turn comes up right when I have to afk for something, but I've never gotten a penalty for once or twice. Never missed three times before, but that's usually because if I've missed two queues, I've already realized I shouldn't be trying to do any dungeons. And I think the three strikes rule is fair when it comes to repeatedly missing a queue. If someone can't reach the 45 second countdown 3 times in a row, they aren't likely to make it any attempt after so all it would do is back up the queue even more and waste other people's times.