Pay to Wait

[MazrimTaim]

Assuming your clock top right is "local time" this means you signed up as a DD at 10am on a monday ....... and assuming you're playing on a server with people from your own general area...
Why exactly are you supriced ? You can't expect Square to employ people to play with you on all off-peak hours.

[Vinge]

Assuming your clock top right is "local time" this means you signed up as a DD at 10am on a monday ....... and assuming you're playing on a server with people from your own general area...
Why exactly are you supriced ? You can't expect Square to employ people to play with you on all off-peak hours.

This issue has nothing to do with not being able to find other players, the OP's party was full.

The issue is that the instance server doesn't have the capacity to cope with the number of groups trying to run instances. So even when the group is filled, they can't start an instance because the instance server is full.

It's down to SE's lack of investment in adequate servers as with so many other problems with this game at the moment.