Any Word On Group Roulette?

[Tule]

Sorry the way you've typed that has made it really confusing.

But I still don't see how it's a huge issue. A lot of people primarily play these games to play with friends, having no option to do one of the main pieces of content with your friends is a shame. Since the duty roulette came out I've played with friends less and less, having the option to complete our daily roulette together would be much more fun.

Yes, there's a chance it might slow down the 'solo' queues as you said, but at the same time it's stinting the main point of this game.
Even if it is "Once a day" that's still "Once a day" I can't play with friends.

How is it stinting it? You don't HAVE to do the duty roulette. The duty roulette has no unique content. You are choosing 40 tomes over your friend. If 40 tomes means "you no can no longer enjoy the game with your friends" then you must not really be friends. And again, its 40 tomes ONCE a day.

[Gilthas]

If you're asking to queue as a group for Duty Roulette to get the bonuses, you're basically asking them to throw out the window the main reason why they put it in the game in the first place: to help people playing solo get a group more easily.

DR doesn't prevent people from doing stuff with their friends. Surely capping your weekly tome allowance slower is a small price to pay for being able to play with your friends. Hell, most people in my FC cap their Myth during THs.

[DxWings]

If they're going to add a group roulette, I second the thought other players have mentioned.
"Remove the bonus associated with the roulette if queuing in a party equating to two or more players."
Either that, or don't bother working on a group roulette feature. Its just going to negate the current purpose of the DR if the bonus still applies to a group queuing.

[cotti]

"I want to play only with my friends and receive a prize for it!"

[Iymala]

On the flip side, for all those doom and gloom solo queue fortune tellers, this may actually get more groups running than the current system. I know that no one in my FC bothers to run DR because it's boring running without any friends in your group and we don't need tomes enough to be bothered with it. If we could actually queue DR with a friend or two there would be a much higher chance we would run the DR. Even if that only adds one or two spots per group....that is still more spots than the zero a lot of people are contributing now.

[Tule]

Yeah, but if you have 4 soloers that is one party. If you have a trio and 4 soloers that is 1 party and 3 soloers. It is worse. Only the people that don't need the DF would be helped. Again, I wouldn't mind testing this, but they would need to still have a max of 2 in a group and possibly a slight reward deduction. Like maybe 10 less tomes or maybe all tomes, but no money reward. Not like the gil is all that much.

[DSN]

The idea behind duty roulette was to get solo players through the queue faster and give people a bonus for queuing solo. If you are playing with friends you already get the bonus of faster and smoother runs and less time in waiting for a queue.

I usually heal or tank and a buddy of mine does the opposite of what I am doing. Since the introduction of Roulette we noticed that the amount of time we were spending together hanging out dropped to almost never. So we stopped doing Roulette because we want to hang out together. SO you just lost a healer and tank from the DF, does that make it faster for you?

[silentwindfr]

the bonus mustn't be given for over 2 people, 1 and 2 people yes. often couple play together... the duty roulette is simply splitting couple for nothing. it's still give 2 room for solo player to find a room.

[Chiramu]

At least a roulette that lets you queue with one or two others. All that needs to be done is take away the ability to give commendations to the people you queued with. It feels lonely not being about to do a random dungeon with friends.

[Sunah]

They already said they're adding this.

As far as I recall it was 2.2 or slightly after.

People who want to queue solo will still queue solo.

People who want to queue with their friends will queue with their friends anway.

This won't change too much. Why restrict people who wish to play an MMO with friends, when there are plenty of people who prefer and or currently play solo?

For an MMO that originally promoted playing with your friends as its biggest factor, it sure has ruined that image with ARR so far. (IE. Coil Lockout/Solo content)

Even the job quests are solo now, most of the old friends/stranger friendly content is all but gone.

Finally one smart person.