Well... It's dead Jim.

[Red_Wolf]

Regardless of the reason Slaughter seems to have killed PvP. It's Friday night and I've had one pop on Primal in close to 2 hours.

[zeopower6]

Interesting. I've had about 5 pops today on Primal. Had to stop for some S Ranks though. Also only queuing for Slaughter.

[StouterTaru]

Sounds like someone is maelstrom and someone isn't.

I switched to the maelstrom before frontlines came out, and recently switched back. PvP queue times went from 1-2 hours to 5-10 minutes, and I got to use those 50k seals on some moonstones.

[zeopower6]

I am Maelstrom. And will never change from Maelstrom. Queue times aren't really that bad, to be honest and it's not worth having to play for the other GCs for 'better queues'. I MIGHT swap to Ishgard's GC if everyone else follows suit though, lol.

[Buff_Archer]

We were just discussing this in my Linkshell, which being Primal Adders does not have long queues normally. I have wasted so much time sitting in queue for nothing, because one or more persons in queue ran out of time from waiting. In what way does it make sense to sit around waiting for an hour or more, for < 15 min of game time. I totally said this would happen months ago when the term Frontlines Roulette came out and in this case I'm sorry to have been right. I said if the other queueing issues were not fixed, we were just going to have to wait that much longer.

Right now I'm sitting in queue with another party member, waiting for the stupid match to start so I can finish it, turn this game off and play one that doesn't unapologetically waste my time. I'd like to see any other game add content where people have to regularly sit and wait so long to play it, even if killing time doing filler content. SE is lucky to have a loyal fan base willing to put up with this for now. I don't feel like crafting or running beast tribe quests right now. I feel like shutting this game off but I can't even do that without blowing other people in my party out of DF and I don't want to do that to them, like me they've had enough of their time wasted already.

[DividedSky]

I'v been having major que issues the past 2 days on primal adders. Ques are 30min+ whether i'm solo, light party, or full party. Something is going on...... ques use to be 5-10 mins max. I beleive it is an adders issue because adders have been completely dominating the last couple weeks. It seems we have an influx of adders which is increasing que time. Sadly the influx of new players are making us lose more now as well. It is a lose/lose situation. They need to remove the restriction and allow people to swap GCs w/o any wait time or dare I say it.... remove the GC restriction . However the latter would really upset me and not fit with the current model. The BEST solution is to remove the restriction to swap GCs. I'm not against ranking up again but I am against swapping and not being able to swap back on a whim without having to wait.

[Xenosan]

...They need to remove the restriction and allow people to swap GCs w/o any wait time or dare I say it.... remove the GC restriction . However the latter would really upset me and not fit with the current model. The BEST solution is to remove the restriction to swap GCs. I'm not against ranking up again but I am against swapping and not being able to swap back on a whim without having to wait.

I wouldn't mind them removing the GC restriction. Narrative wise the whole explanation of PvP for training adventurers or w/e is a pretty weak backstory with no real incentive for PVE players to jump in. I'd rather they just tear it down and make it anew as part of Gold Saucer like 7s Battle Arena.

[Tilrea]

last 3 days its been 3 plus hours wait times for my que to pop i just gave up and logged off... kinda of a waste of time ..

[zeopower6]

I'v been having major que issues the past 2 days on primal adders. Ques are 30min+ whether i'm solo, light party, or full party. Something is going on...... ques use to be 5-10 mins max. I beleive it is an adders issue because adders have been completely dominating the last couple weeks. It seems we have an influx of adders which is increasing que time. Sadly the influx of new players are making us lose more now as well. It is a lose/lose situation

A lot of people swapped to Adders just before the patch... not entirely sure why, but that was the case for some top Flames and a teeny amount of Storm players on Leviathan. Some of them are switching again in a few days since their restriction is up though.

I will say that requeuing after about 30 minutes helps a lot and to keep track of who gets in when so you can snipe in progress.

[Sen_Terrechant]

Honestly the bigger issue isnt really GC, its more of when you que.

The que system is really broken, and it seems like the closer you que to the match the more likely you are to get in.

If you are super lucky you catch the train right as it happens, and as long as you que right after you get out you are likely to get in again.

If que times last over 10 minutes for you, restart the que.