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.

[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

[Eorzean_username]

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

That was my PvP life as Aether Flames. I spent more time Crafting or tabbed out than actually practicing PvP, and sometimes I would have to just give up after 60 minutes or 2+ hours with no pop.

As another point about the near-useless Average Wait Time: for my Roulette today, I was promised 'More than 30 minutes'. A fresh match popped 5 minutes 47 seconds later. This is normal since I switched to an unpopular GC. I think the queue really does gather pop times for all 3 GCs and average them into a useless Average Time.

[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...

[Chevronone]

It's really disappointing. I think I have an idea what's happening, possibly a few pre-mades running in the same gc I am currently in which locks out pretty much everyone else in that GC.

The worst part is, I have 6 more days left on this punishment - I mean CD - before I swap back.

[Zensho]

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.

True, when I was on Primal I was Flames, and ques were less than 5 mins. lol (but they have no teamwork most of the time)

[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.