Anyone else having dungeon queue issues?

[shoujoaixiv]

And no, I don't think wait times are broken or not working as intended.

Two days ago I had a situation, where I've been in a queue for 70 minutes. Withdrew, rejoined and found a team after 15 minutes. I think it easily indicates that something about the alghoritms is off.

[JimInBrisbane]

I'm new to the game & have been loving it. That is, until I run into the roadblocks that are the dungeon quests of the main scenario. Now, I appreciate encouraging people to do the dungeons as a means of advancing the storyline. I enjoyed doing them & met some great people as a result. However, the queue times have become prohibitive lately, to the extent that it often takes me several days to actually complete the required dungeon/trial, what with the requirements of real life and all.

I've tried queueing for individual dungeons & as part of the daily roulette. Both invariably result in wait times of, at times, several hours. I've been told "get some friends to help". But none of my friends play this game (am I the only one whose friends don't share their interest in gaming?). What about an FC? Tried that but nobody wanted to run old content, especially with the new stuff that's been released recently. I mean, this can't be intended:

[Pence]

You know they don't mean 'get your real life friends to play and help you', right? Lol. FFXIV has this nifty new feature which allows you to chat to other players! Boy, is that ever so neat and innovative!

[JimInBrisbane]

Yeah okay, except that people who are brand new to the game don't tend to have that many in-game friends to rely upon. Also, I did use the nifty feature and joined an FC where the ppl were very friendly buuuut didn't want to take time out from new stuff to run old content. Regardless, you have to admit that 7 hour queues are ridiculous.

[Sida]

The patch notes said something about improving the queue algorithm. Me thinks it's broken instead.

"[2.0] The matching algorithm for Duty Roulette has been adjusted to reduce wait times."

[Ralvenom]

I understand DPS queues have always been much longer than healer or even tank, but since the new patch, I have been going upwards of 50 minutes anytime I queue as DPS, and 30mins+ as healer.

Has anyone else noticed that queues are extravagantly longer than pre-patch?

It's because everyone is running Diadems. The devs can't do anything about the fact that most of the players love a new feature. Yeesh!...

[ClockworkBunny]

Daily Duty Finder Leveling Roulette is seriously broken for me. I haven't been able to get one after many LONG WAIT attempts for just a Normal Daily Leveling Roulette.

I wonder if they calculate how many people waited 40+ minutes and eventually gave up? That is really the number they need to be looking at, because it would have increased exponentially.

[Ravidrath]

I'm a DPS, but waited more than 45 minutes trying to get into Void Ark tonight. Average wait time was "Less then 5m" the entire time.

Someone withdrew, restarts from scratch. Still not in after another 45 minutes. Average wait time was 5m for most of it, and just recently went up to 10m.

How is this possible? Seems like that queue filled up after I was bounced and thus I missed my chance, by no fault of my own.

Since 3.0 hit, it seems like the term "queue" is very loose, too - I've frequently had people queue up well after I did, and get in long before I did. And in the same role/job, too.

Additionally, tried queueing up with a healer friend recently, and our estimates were wildly different. Sometimes his were higher than mine, sometimes mine were higher. And the role counts didn't match at all.

Please do whatever it takes to fix this. It's pretty much impossible for me to enjoy the game with the Duty Finder in its current state.

[Bravely_Default]

[Atoli]

That only holds true if there actually are hundreds of people in line for the specific content you signed up for. Depending on the time of day, allure of other content and other people also leaving the queue because they think it's broken or simply taking too long, there might very well be only a few people in line, that form parties as soon as one or two people join who complete the usual group setup.