Is EU pretty much dead?

[Turtledeluxe]

I caught up on most of the new patch content during the free sub days. Queues felt dead majority of time, at all times of day, for all content. On Aether as well.

People are in denial if you genuinely think the game has not lost tons of players.

[Exmo]

Queued for storm's crown as whm on light, 6:40pn. Popped in less than 60 seconds. You might just be unlucky.

[Darkshade]

the game isn't in it's best state at the moment, a lot of us aren't sure it ever will be again

[Rayne6665]

Theres always a Trust system. Instant queue with no waiting time for msq dungeon stuff other than the trials that you have to queue for with other players. Tho idk what its like over there on EU but I always go with Trusts for instant queue lol (for dungeons and msq trials that supports Duty Support npcs)

[Minali]

I heard some Shb and EW trials can be a bit tricky atm, even on Light where I am - they are not included in the free trial, so less active players have access to them, and they are not the new stuff, that would be Dawntrail. That said, from my experience of playing since 2020, Trial queues tend to be a tough thing in general (that and non-current Alliance Raids aside from CT obviously). The rewards you get for trial roulette are fairly small, the regular ones don't drop loot one might farm them for, nor do you profit from doing them multiple times. When you are at endgame, you also have this tiny endgame tomestone cap you can reach fairly quickly, depending on what you're doing, so there isn't really a need to run roulettes 7 days a week unless you're leveling. (I admit I am in this last category, my tomes are capped, so I am part of the problem. ^^; )

There have been threads and suggestions for improving trial queues, like this one: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...le-times-a-day
But at least this thread didn't get much attention. Doesn't know about others, but nothing about them has changed afaik, so...

[Sunhwapark]

I don't think its dead, but I have seen of a lot of people leaving lately (chaos side, anyway) since the launch of DT.

[Halivel]

Tell me how it goes for you please, I’m curious to know

Queued as WHM on Chaos, 19:01 Server Time.
Duty popped at 19:02, so about a minute long wait.

That said, I do think they should consider cross-DC duty finder, at least within region, honestly. Especially during early prog in Savage, everyone is on Light, it's painful.

[0blivion]

quick q to those who went to Light and still didn't get queue: do you have all languages enabled?

[AvoSturmfaust]

Check your Settings, if all Languages are enabled, because as Healer there shouldnt be a long queue, i even queued just for fun one of the older DT Trials and got a Group in 10 Min, so if you are not be able to get a group as healer there may be some setting issues

[Kohashi]

You can always ask in Novice Chat for help. Even if you won't get a full party, it will speed up the que times significantly.