Dearest Square Enix, about this 15 minute timer...

[Mijin]

I forgot to mention the part I hate most about timers... Some people think because there's a 15 min cool down it's cool to go afk for 25 instead, and it seems like always at about 24 minutes later someone else will be like "brb." Then when the 25min guy gets back, the last min brb guy will be gone for another 10. The brb guy finally gets back, and 35 minutes have passed since you finished the last run... You do a ready check to see if everyone's there only to find two more people have gone afk... 5 Minutes later they finally respond only to explain that they were there the whole time just not paying attention, and you enter the dungeon. As you enter someone game crashes.

In any case, I don't ever see them getting rid of timers. This thread was just a useless rant only for my own benefit because I was interested in seeing if these timers drove anyone else crazy. In conclusion it seems like it might not bother as many people as I thought it would, so maybe I'm just being obsessive. In any case I g2g for now. I have a doctors appointment, and I'm sure I'll have to wait forever there too... It will be only slightly less fun that waiting for cool downs lol... only slightly.

[Impulse]

We should have lockouts that reset every JP Tuesday midnight instead!

[Antipika]

We should have lockouts that reset every JP Tuesday midnight instead!

If the game had content and proper drop rate it wouldn't be an issue, just like in most of games with weekly raid lockout.

[Elexia]

Please get rid of it okay?

Just kidding I know you never will, but boy do I sure hate it. At least it isn't as bad as FFXI I guess...

XI's lockout timers made sense, especially early on since a lot of the content wasn't truly instanced (Dynamis/Limbus for example), that way everyone could actually rotate doing the content.

Only things people disliked were the JP midnight waits on certain things that shouldn't have been there, i.e on SAM AF, it makes sense from a lore perspective, but from a gameplay standpoint people shouldn't have waited a real day for their armor, let alone to even progress it.

[Thunderz]

OP please DIAF

I want greater lock out timers so we can get a greater drop rate on the chest

crazy people talking about no lock out.... (I would totally burn myself out doing endgame)

btw with lockout on endgame I usually switch it up

AV To CC
Hamlet To Skirmish
etc

silly dood

[Crevox]

They really should get rid of the timer, but it's not that bad.

[Felis]

Get rid of lockout timer. put in a timer to exit the dungeon ^^
After you enter the dungeon, you can only exit it after 1 hour.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I forgot to mention the part I hate most about timers... Some people think because there's a 15 min cool down it's cool to go afk for 25 instead, and it seems like always at about 24 minutes later someone else will be like "brb." Then when the 25min guy gets back, the last min brb guy will be gone for another 10. The brb guy finally gets back, and 35 minutes have passed since you finished the last run... You do a ready check to see if everyone's there only to find two more people have gone afk... 5 Minutes later they finally respond only to explain that they were there the whole time just not paying attention, and you enter the dungeon. As you enter someone game crashes.

This should be on a T-shirt or something, it's so true.

[Xatsh]

Get rid of the 15min timer. Add 10xs the content. Add a 24-72hr cooldown timer in its place increase drop rates all around.

[Ceol]

I agree with you, Mijin. Spamming Hamlet, it's a dedicated 20-25 minutes in the instance coupled with a 15 minute cooldown. That adds up to 40 minute runs. If you have to leave in an hour? You only get one more run, even though you could fit two in without the cooldown. It wouldn't be an issue if drops were more common, but I've gone far too many top 20 provisioner runs getting just a damn headpiece.

I'm glad they said they're addressing the reward system in 2.0. I would be happy with the cooldown if it meant I was getting more stuff. I shouldn't be spending 4+ hours doing instances and end up with absolutely nothing to show for it.