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.

[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.

[Ath192]

So now this expansion has even less content AND less players doing it? How depressing.

What? We’re we supposed to stay playing the game often when they don’t offer anything good to do? Hell no. I’m a house and a bad fan fest announcement away from unsubbing. And even if it’s good there will be nothing much to do in this game until January of next year.

[Fawkes]

4pm EST (prime time hours usually for all forms of content)

[Mesarthim]

I don't have much spare time these days but once I hit near max aetherpool for the grindable floors I stop queueing in parties and go solo only.

[Rosenstrauch]

Honestly, I think the main reason Eureka Orthos is so dead is just that it's out of the way.

With Palace of the Dead and Heaven on High, the entrance is a few feet from the nearest aetheryte. You can zone in and queue in about 2-3 seconds, plus whatever the loading time was to teleport to the aetheryte. Contrast that with Eureka Orthos, where you have to teleport to Mor Dhona, fly over to Syrcus Tower, click-enter the Syrcus Tower map, which causes another loading screen, and then walk for about 5-6 seconds before you can talk to the NPC to enter the Deep Dungeon itself.

Trusts also clearly cut into it as a resource for EXP Grinding, since they're available on demand and are effectively effortless content, whereas Deep Dungeons require some degree of situational awareness even in matched parties.

My point being that they should be a bit more convenient to enter, since their Path of Least Resistance alternative is too.