A simple fix to PVP Queue times

[Kosmos992k]

At the end of the day, my personal experience is that people want to play this game with their friends, so any content that doesn't allow you to do that is going to lack interest from the playerbase.

Except you are arguing that this applies specifically to PvP, and let's be honest, in FFXIV, PvP is not popular, is it? I already agreed that personal experience varies, but that does not alter the fact that only a small minority of players who have tried PvP, have done more than dip a toe into PvP. I'm not even willing to believe that the majority of players have even tried PvP, simply because they don't want to do PvP.

The lack of interest in PvP has less to do with whether you can play with friends than it does a general apathy for PvP among FFXIV players.

anyone who is serious about PvP would want to do it whenever they wanted and as many times as they could. Pigeon-holing everyone into set times with only so many occurrences in a given amount of time is more of a band-aid than a fix to a problem that won't be solved with "making players plan when they want to fight other players".

I personally don't want to play PvP, but I can agree with what you are saying here. I can see that if people really want PvP - are serious about it as you say, then a sanitized, pigeon holed experience is not what they want. The issue I have there though is that this isn't a PvP game, and I do not think that unstructured, open world PvP would fit FFXIV.

Your language suggests you really don't like pvp.

That would be an accurate assessment. I find PvP to be grossly unfair to anyone who either does not often partake, or who lacks sufficient levels/gear to compete. There are several other reasons for my personal dislike of PvP, you could correctly conclude it is a deep seated aversion to PvP.