Eureka Orthos is a Dead Queue in NA

[FF14Xanz]

p much title.
i tried transferring around at 4pm EST (prime time hours usually for all forms of content) to Aether, Crystal and then even Dynamis before returning home to Primal, the 21-30 queue doesn't pop anywhere and now i've been sitting in it for over half an hour on my home world.
i just want to grind aetherpool to solo it, so i don't mind doing it solo but its a bit annoying that there's a soft lock on silver chests at certain aetherpool values on lower floors when the content is this dead.
Even heaven on high wasn't this brutally devoid of life during Stormblood, and that expansion even had to compete with the exploration zone Eureka and the first two Ultimates ever all during a savage tier.
So now this expansion has even less content AND less players doing it? How depressing.

[BaconBits]

Have you tried playing other games yet? That might solve your issues with queue times.

[kpxmanifesto]

Have you tried playing other games yet? That might solve your issues with queue times.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Have you tried playing other games yet? That might solve your issues with queue times.

This killed me hard, I might have to steal this reply for one of my future signature.

[Grimr]

Just considering EO only has 30 floors before you have to make pre mades compared to 100 on potd and hoh, it isn't the greatest leveling method. The fact the other two have 70 more floors is more than enough to deter most to not even bother with eo. I went into eo once, wasn't really impressed and it only has 30 floors for matchmaking???? yeah moved on. All three of them need to be a on duty finder by now.

As for those exploratory zones, it was love hate. It was great for capping tomestones but i dint care for lvling again after 70 and 80. In eureka's case, dying and not getting resurrected hurts. Kinda why i haven't gone into ba and not really done anything eureka related in a while now. Yes they could future proof it by adding all those things like bozja but its 6.4 they should of been added in 5.3 like 4.3 dumbed down 3.0 relic. It needs a massive over haul just adding echo doesn't mean you can solo nms. I an can only speak about primal but when i last went in eureka was pretty dead bozja had more prob due to the reaper and sages.

I guess they had their purpose. If there was a current one now i would be devoting some time to it but there are other things to do cap tomes, craft, mount farming, finishing stupid blue mage colosseum stuff, etc

To me it seems yoshiada has been too preoccupied with ff16 and not enough time being spent on 14.

[Iscah]

Just considering EO only has 30 floors before you have to make pre mades compared to 100 on potd and hoh, it isn't the greatest leveling method. The fact the other two have 70 more floors is more than enough to deter most to not even bother with eo.

Orthos has the same level structure as HoH. Everyone just ran 51-60 of PotD over and over so they changed "the level everyone will play repeatedly" to be 21-30 with an important boss at the end and no second stretch of basic difficulty before you hit the hard part.

[DamianFatale]

Have you tried playing other games yet? That might solve your issues with queue times.

low effort bait post with Karen level logic.

[AwesomeJr44]

Eureka Orthos is a Dead Queue in NA

The content was practically dead after a week. Most people did 1-30 a few times, maybe maxed Aetherpool or cleared floor 100 once, and then stopped. The people who still are running Orthos regularly are mainly the hardcore Deep Dungeon players, of which there really aren't that many of, and they mainly either play solo or in pre-made groups anyways. I've heard of a handful of people trying to get into the content casually a bit after its launch, but all of them have met this same issue that you are having now. Barely anyone still wants to do it, and most of the few people left doing it at all aren't queuing for a group of randoms, they're either going solo or with friends. Your best bet is to make a PF for it and hope that a few other people are in the same boat as you or are willing to help.

[Theodric]

It's unfortunate but the game struggles to develop content that stays relevant and proves to be rewarding.

The development team doubling down on pandering to players who either don't like interacting with other people or only do so through 'venues' only further exacerbates the problem.

[TheDecay]

It's unfortunate but the game struggles to develop content that stays relevant and proves to be rewarding.

The development team doubling down on pandering to players who either don't like interacting with other people or only do so through 'venues' only further exacerbates the problem.

Perhaps if they made Eureka Orthos something more than a copy-paste job of PotD/HoH more players would be inclined to play it just for the fun.

But you are right: there are barely any players left in the game. In their wake we have "players", who don't so much play the game than participate only in modding, venues, and sometimes ERP.