Has the Materia Datacenter just been abandoned by SE?

[Iscah]

Strange I leveled from 1-70 on Dynamis and only had ONE thing (crystal tower) that I actually needed to go off DC to get done. Everything else no problem with duty finder at all. Even now I regularly run roulettes and don't have much of a wait (I dont consider 10-15 minutes a long wait)

So? That's my experience on Materia as well. There is no actual issue with queuing for roulettes, so long as you have a bit of patience, unless it's fairly late at night. I think the high-level dungeons might take a while to pop, but levelling to 70 doesn't sound like much of a boast.

[Jojoya]

So? That's my experience on Materia as well. There is no actual issue with queuing for roulettes, so long as you have a bit of patience, unless it's fairly late at night. I think the high-level dungeons might take a while to pop, but levelling to 70 doesn't sound like much of a boast.

I think that's the problem that most the players screaming "dead data center" have, whether it's Materia or Dynamis. They're thinking only in terms of end game content queues when a large percentage of the population hasn't had enough time to reach end game.

Any sort of MSQ leveling content (outside of Crystal Tower) doesn't have problems when it comes to queues except during the region very late night/very early morning hours and even the congested NA data centers can have queue problems at that time. The queue times aren't going to be as quick as the congested data centers but they also aren't excessively long.

The queues that suffer the most from the lower population: Alliance raids (since it needs to match 24 players with the necessary roles), PvP and level 90 content. I know Dynamis has a few Discords dedicated to organizing player events for those queue types and I would assume Materia has a few as well.

As more and more players are completing 6.0 MSQ, the level 90 queue times are gradually improving (not everyone goes to other data centers regardless of what some say).

Alliance raid and PvP queue times still suffer though. Few players are making detours into side content as they focus on completing MSQ so they don't have the content unlocked or aren't choosing to do it. Eventually those will start getting more active as players get caught up on MSQ and have interest in doing the side content that was ignored while leveling.