Is this "Playing As Intended"?

[Chevronone]

An entire mode of play is inaccessible to a lot of players (this is during prime time on Primal btw)

I understand GCs have a lot of do with is, but unfortunately I'm stuck with this for another 7 days?!? I have been able to play maybe 6 or 7 matches in the past week due to these ridiculous queues.

SE remains silent! Can't you even acknowledge this is problem?

[Dimitrii]

Right now Flames is reported to have the best queue times for frontlines. Last night players in my feast ls were reporting 9 min queues as flames. Maelstrom is unbearably overpopulated again because of the win rate. Adder also seems to win at a decent rate so their queues are likely crap as well.

[MihaelB]

Isn't it sad how your average wait time is expected to be 26 minutes?

I don't know any other games where you actually wait 10+ minutes to play or maybe I don't bother in the first place.

[Chevronone]

Its sad that SE is okay with this.

[Eorzean_username]

Isn't it sad how your average wait time is expected to be 26 minutes?

Average Wait Time for PvP queues is calculated in some way that makes it effectively uninformative and misleading.

As Aether Flames, '25 minutes' usually meant '45 minutes' (or more). As Aether Adders, I see 'More than 30 Minutes' when I queue up, and my queue pops within about 8-15 minutes on average (a 'long' outlier would be 20-25 minutes).

Its sad that SE is okay with this.

To be fair, if you asked Yoshida point blank, "Are you okay with this?", I doubt he is. He wants players to enjoy their time in FFXIV.

Resolving it is probably not as simple as we want it to be, though, especially since the three JP Datacenters don't have the same issues (so any fix for NA/EU would also have to avoid breaking or mangling the functioning JP system).

[Kerwin]

Right now Flames is reported to have the best queue times for frontlines. Last night players in my feast ls were reporting 9 min queues as flames. Maelstrom is unbearably overpopulated again because of the win rate. Adder also seems to win at a decent rate so their queues are likely crap as well.

Depends on the datacenter you are on. On Aether, Flames are overloaded and queue times are 60+ minutes.

[Thekk]

Right now Flames is reported to have the best queue times for frontlines. Last night players in my feast ls were reporting 9 min queues as flames. Maelstrom is unbearably overpopulated again because of the win rate. Adder also seems to win at a decent rate so their queues are likely crap as well.

Usually the highest you'll get as Primal Adders is around 30 mins. If it's higher than that it's simply that there aren't enough players queuing. Often it's around 10 to 20 minutes. It's nowhere as bad as that screenshot.

[Chevronone]

I wish I was exaggerating, but I have literally been in queue for almost 3hrs.

Granted Im doing other things like crafting just see if this pops before I log. Lol

[Enlial]

Duty finder is hilarious sometimes.

This is me on an alt waiting for uh, world of darkness I think, awhile back


This one is for frontlines maybe a week after shatter was introduced


I think FL queues have gotten better the last week or so, tho

[Februs]

Right now Flames is reported to have the best queue times for frontlines.

If that's true, then this issue is worse than ever before, because my queue time tonight for Flames was 40+ minutes a match. I only got to play two rounds in about 3 hours. We won both, mind you, so I guess the waiting paid off, but it was pretty unbearable...