Average wait time -Forever-

[tocsin]

snip.

okay, ill take that, and I retract my earlier statement of not believing you. I apologize.

[Chihaya]

Good for your screenshots, as it doesn't matter because I can get in dungeons just fine even as DPS...

[Elusana_Celah]

I'm sorry, I'm going to have to agree with the naysayers, I've been playing for 6 months and do a lot of duty finder for various stuff and there ain't no way anything takes that long.

[tocsin]

I had a friend yesterday do turns 1-9 on a dps character, and for not a single turn did he wait longer than an hour for his queue. and he is on the same datacenter.

I'm also calling fake on this one.

[tjw]

Actually, in regards to those using FotoForensic....it appears that there's also a large possibility that it wasn't changed. I used a screenshot I had of being queued up, for anything, so I could take a screenshot of the duty box, and...well...

Here's the original screenshot:


The only edits I did were to the chatbox (if you don't want to believe it, more power to you) in MS Paint. No Photoshop or other editting programs. It has been uploaded to imgur.com.

Here is the FotoForensic analysis of the imgur image:


The Duty Status window also has the Time Expired/Average Wait Time bright. Similar to Ladon's post. His is slightly brighter in the timer area, but then again, I only have a few digits, while his has all the digits filled.

It may be because the numbers for both are subject to change, I don't know. However, the box sizes are the same on both his duty status windows and mine, in regards to the alleged edited parts.

Food for thought. I am also slightly not willing to believe that there IS such a queue, but FotoForensic isn't proof as such yet.

If you don't believe me, do it yourself. Queue up, screenshot the picture, upload it then run an analysis on it.

[Sove92]

There is quite a significant difference actually. Original images are of different resolution so of course it shouldn't look exactly the same, but this is still suspicious.

Your image


OP

[tjw]

As I said before, his DOES display more digits on his duty status box, whereas mine merely had a few minutes. If that affects the brightness, I do not know. The bright boxes themselves are of similar dimensions; this may be due to colour, or different gamma settings, but his chat log is also brighter, as well as his mini map and inventory. I'm partially willing to give him the benefit of doubt, as I don't see it as that significant a difference. You probably see different, but that's fine. I'm just providing a different viewpoint.

[MeiUshu]

I had a 162 mn + wait as a healer for T5 in DF ...selected languages F+E. There are people outthere that have lenghty waiting time. Is not abnormal for me to wait around 1h as average when I play on week-ends a bit off timings. I even had 45mn waiting time thicking the 3 towers (CT, ST &WoD), although for this I dont have a screenshot. Complaining though wont do much, that is how it goes, DF is as such, mind you PF is no better off timings.

People have a tendency in believing that since it does not happen to them is necesseraly meaning that nobody else is having that problem. There are queues, T3 for example, that I have yet to do, nobody queues for it at least when I am around. I tried T8, well got one group, after one wipe tank left and we left too, since I Had no luck in entering.

Elusana is right, if you wait so long and you get a rage quit, is sooo frustrating and angering that you find it hard to remain polite if any and all that you join afterwards. It happens more then you think, but again nothing to be done against this. FcoB is just a pain for the waiting time and the overall lack of engagement of people that want insta win vs those that need to learn the fight....eternal discussion without solution...such is life in FFXIV

Yet, if I queue for Shiva, Ramuh, Levi, I never or rarely have problems. I cant blame people getting annoyed at the waiting time unfortunately nothing much you can do about it.

Mei

[BreathlessTao]

@OP - while the queue time situation is awful indeed, I commend your internet connection. I can't stay connected 4 hours without getting at least one DC, much less more than half a day. So, kudos for that, at any rate. O_O

On another note - yeah, the queue times are horrid. No matter what I sign up for (and I do select all four languages too), AWT is "more than 30m" 9 out of every 10 times - even for expert roulette, even for WoD, even for Odin. It's just unplayable.

[NinjaTaru72]

Op has been proven lying by multiple people,and still tries.

GG.