Is Chocobo Racing popular??

[Moomba33]

Queues aren't an issue for Chocobo Racing. The game will fill race slots with npcs to get a race going so you never have to wait more than 30 seconds or so.

Chocobo racing isn't super popular. You likely won't encounter many human opponents until you start breeding new birds and hit the higher ranked races as that's where most of the people still playing will be.

As for fun I think it's alright, especially with friends. The main problem is they haven't added new tracks in 2 years so it's a bit stale for people that have been playing awhile. The breeding system also creates a large gap in performance between new players and people with high grade birds so the races stop being interesting if you have some friends investing a lot more time into their bird than others. You can still race together in the Open races but it won't be a close race if one person is several grades ahead and they will cause higher end npcs to spawn in the race as well.