Regarding 8v8 Feast ques

[Dimitrii]

Its not only 8 v 8 either, the solo queues are drastically slower than they used to be. It may be that ppl are trying to protect their rank so they stopped queuing, or maybe ppl are just bored with feast in general idk. I worry actually that this mode may be dead next season especially given the fact that historically each new addition to pvp effectively kills the previous incarnations and we have a new frontline mode coming out in just over 2 weeks.

[Thekk]

Its not only 8 v 8 either, the solo queues are drastically slower than they used to be. It may be that ppl are trying to protect their rank so they stopped queuing, or maybe ppl are just bored with feast in general idk. I worry actually that this mode may be dead next season especially given the fact that historically each new addition to pvp effectively kills the previous incarnations and we have a new frontline mode coming out in just over 2 weeks.

Healer queues still are pretty fast in 4v4 at least. Not so much in 8v8 most of the time.

But yeah, taking a look at the top 100, over half of it hasn't played a game on any given day, and it's usually the same people. I share the same feeling that it will be dead by season 2.

[kensatsu]

I guess it's die or queing slow for some purpose :
the community realy into pvp is very small, when a content come out many of the players is doing pvp by hype or for the reward, when the hype fell down or the reward is got, only the guys doing pvp for fun is queuing, otherwise guys into ranked don't queue a lot for the others pvp content atm, exept for trying a job maybe.
I think wolfmarks should be more attractive to make pvp not die so fast but it's annoying to admit we need carrot to get content alive.

[Geologo]

I guess it's die or queing slow for some purpose :
I think wolfmarks should be more attractive to make pvp not die so fast but it's annoying to admit we need carrot to get content alive.

I feel a little rabbit now! xD

Anyway I honestly like 4vs4, 8vs8 and FL, I would join any of this content without problem but right now I'm afraid to select more of 1 of them because you can land in a dead que and stay there even for hours with not a damned pop.
A good option, in my opinion, would be let us display a kind of "players in queue" list for those content and/or put come "carrots" to players who join a starving queue putting the Adventure in need feature near this contents.

I honestly don't care too much on reward but actually i'm playing 1/3 of the time I'm logged and for 2/3 of it I'm just waiting in queue :/

[Canadane]

Anyway I honestly like 4vs4, 8vs8 and FL, I would join any of this content without problem but right now I'm afraid to select more of 1 of them because you can land in a dead que and stay there even for hours with not a damned pop./

Even if one of those three is dead, it does cycle you through to the other ones. You aren't stuck in only one of your selected duties from the start.

[Zojha]

But yeah, taking a look at the top 100, over half of it hasn't played a game on any given day, and it's usually the same people.

That's pretty common in rated PvP with rank-based rewards. Another common thing is getting boosted to a high rank, then just losing a game a month or so to keep the rating from decaying. Since you can lose your rank and thus reward via playing, the reward serves as an incentive to not play anymore once you qualify for it.

As for season 2 - I consequently doubt it'll be dead instantly. People will once again try to solidify their ranking for the reward, then drop out, playing the bare minimum of games needed to not have their ranking decay (0, in FFXIV case).

As for 8vs8, well...it has role requirements. That's quite a bit worse than GC requirements, because it relies on gameplay popularity which, uh...especially in the case of tanks tends to be on the low side.