"Why is my queue so long?" — Factors that influence PvP queue time

[Eorzean_username]

Solo que + "join in progress" /thread

I have always had Join in Progress checked since I unlocked Duty Finder (I queue Tank and I like helping stranded groups) and I always Solo queue. All of my issues with huge queue times were not improved or affected by those habits (or at least, definitely not enough to be a "/thread"-worthy solution).

I will make note of checking Join in Progress though — that's a good point I missed, because every little bit helps.

Is there any data documented to support the language selection hypothesis?

I'm not sure. It's one of those community folk wisdoms that I've seen repeated so many times that it begins to get taken at face value. That said, I have also seen many (admittedly ancedotal) posts around the FFXIV communities where players solved their impossibly long queue by checking the majority language and unchecking the minorities — I know that's not the experimental data you're looking for, though.

[AdamZ]

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If there are 20 Flames, 10 Maels and 7 Adders in queue for 5 hours no one will get a pop and no one plays, even tho there are enough people for a 24 man match.
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REMOVE GC RESTRICTIONS!

I also assume that if that 8th Adder joins, because of the the 20 Flames, it will still wait there for the remember players into a 72 man, over dropping 8, 8, 8 into a 24 man. Maybe they just need to drop 72 man modes all together to start, if that is the case.

That, or it is determining when there are enough people queing to drop into a 72 v. 24 (higher number queing = 72 man) but drop off in some pre made teams queing, or moving from peak to off peak period, will cause a retro review of ques like that to break, and then people get those hour plus ques to get into a 72 man, when it really should do 8 mans.