3 hours waiting to start Odin's dungeon

[マルコ]

The title says it all... getting deeply disappointed by this aspect of the game, a game this old should have this stuff figured out, by letting me hire NPC for the dungeon or some other way... yesterday I've waited two hours for people to join on the Mog King quest and be able to advance the MSQ, Odin isn't MSQ but I'm OCD and I want to clear all the secondary content before moving forward, and the game is just not letting me do that...

So the state of things is that I've PAID MONEY to be left waiting in a queue...

...is this what money gets you these days from an AAA company?

And so I know fans won't like this, but I need to take this off my chest:
A big ♥♥♥♥ You to Square-Enix for taking people's money and then not delivering on what would be reasonable expectations.

I'm so close to want to withdraw my subcription I swear, except I know they're too greedy of a company to allow it

[Aya]

Yea, Odin is a special boy. He’s part of the regular duty but he’s pretty much an extreme trial, you can hope for mentor roulette to pop but chances are still slim.

[Lliuologybolffin]

she died ,,

if you touch it it will elvolve

[マルコ]

Lol 3 other people joined through the party finder, fight started, Odin instantly died... I don't even know what happened but essentially is like the fight never happened xD ç_ç

I'll go back waiting on the content finder, I want a fair victory and also see and partecipate in the fight, otherwise is meaningless.

[Stormy Dawn]

Oprindeligt skrevet af マルコ:

Lol 3 other people joined through the party finder, fight started, Odin instantly died... I don't even know what happened but essentially is like the fight never happened xD ç_ç

I'll go back waiting on the content finder, I want a fair victory and also see and partecipate in the fight, otherwise is meaningless.

You're not going to have any luck waiting for the fight in Duty Finder. There is no incentive for older players to do that instance. Square Enix has been pretty good about incentivizing older content that is necessary for progression so newer players don't get stuck with nothing to do, but side stuff is a crap shoot.

You have to Party FInder it, but if you want to do it under normal circumstances you'll have to enable something like iLv sync, so people can't steamroll the fight with their level 100 characters.

[Veotax]

Odin is classed as an Extreme trial, which means it's in basically no matchmaking playlists, except may mentor roulette? So basically you'll only get it to pop if seven other people happen to be queuing for Odin at the same time, which isn't likely.

That's why the Party Finder is best, you can just put it up and say you want to fight Odin, and if anyone else wants to, they join.

Basically, if it's not casual-level content, you probably want to put up a PF.

[マルコ]

I've did as suggested: https://i.imgur.com/TfjgI7l.jpeg

But a good 30 minutes passed already through the Party Finder and this seems to not be going anywhere either way... x_x

[Aya]

Oprindeligt skrevet af マルコ:

I've did as suggested: https://i.imgur.com/TfjgI7l.jpeg

But a good 30 minutes passed already through the Party Finder and this seems to not be going anywhere either way... x_x

You can wait while doing something else. Finishing Odin doesn’t give you anything, and doing MINE Odin isn’t easy either.

[Veotax]

I mean, it's 10 year old optional content, it might take a while to find people.

[マルコ]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Aya:

You can wait while doing something else. Finishing Odin doesn’t give you anything, and doing MINE Odin isn’t easy either.

Maybe for others, but that logic doesn't apply to me unfortunately.
OCD has me clearing side quests as soon as I find them, and once my focus is on it, nothing can progress until this is cleared.
It's just how I operate, so either this gets cleared and I progress, or I'll give up on this game :\

And this is also a good lesson/reminder on why I should stick to Single Player games...

This is probably a Game Over

[Aya]

Oprindeligt skrevet af マルコ:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Aya:

You can wait while doing something else. Finishing Odin doesn’t give you anything, and doing MINE Odin isn’t easy either.

Maybe for others, but that logic doesn't apply to me unfortunately.
OCD has me clearing side quests as soon as I find them, and once my focus is on it, nothing can progress until this is cleared.
It's just how I operate, so either this gets cleared and I progress, or I'll give up on this game :\

And this is also a good lesson/reminder on why I should stick to Single Player games...

This is probably a Game Over

Not sure what else you can do then other than wait for people during prime time and weekend.

And also it’s unfair for everyone involve when you railroaded your own narrative and due to your own ocd problem that you don’t want to progress.

[Tzenka]

Oprindeligt skrevet af マルコ:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Aya:

You can wait while doing something else. Finishing Odin doesn’t give you anything, and doing MINE Odin isn’t easy either.

Maybe for others, but that logic doesn't apply to me unfortunately.
OCD has me clearing side quests as soon as I find them, and once my focus is on it, nothing can progress until this is cleared.
It's just how I operate, so either this gets cleared and I progress, or I'll give up on this game :\

And this is also a good lesson/reminder on why I should stick to Single Player games...

This is probably a Game Over

I don't think any MMO will avoid you this type of situation.

[causality]

3 hours is generally the normal experience since this game is dead.
https://imgur.com/a/Zyg3MJ8
https://imgur.com/a/laUKce5
https://imgur.com/a/zMMMkqg
Unfortunately the only thing you can do is gather 7 people on the PF, make friends and queue together, ect..

[マルコ]

Community came to the rescue ^_^
7 others joined and we finally defeated Odin in a fair fight :D

Not gonna lie, it would have been a major problem for me because I also study japanese using games, having finished 68 before and FF14 bein the 69th, having read and translated every NPC dialogue (even non- quest givers), every card/fish description I've managed to find so far, every tutorial and quest doing this more than 8 hours a day for the past 34 days in FF14 - the improvement in reading speed and decreased reliance on dictionary was already huge, but given I know how much more text this game has, would have been a shame if something this silly stopped my progress.
Granted, I would have simply switched to another game, but I'm also already invested in the story, so...

Thanks to the community also for teaching me how to use the Party Finder & Level Sync, it works and I'll likely need it again in the future, so see you around in game :)

[マルコ]

Oprindeligt skrevet af causality:

3 hours is generally the normal experience since this game is dead. :lunar2019piginablanket:
https://imgur.com/a/Zyg3MJ8
https://imgur.com/a/laUKce5
https://imgur.com/a/zMMMkqg
Unfortunately the only thing you can do is gather 7 people on the PF, make friends and queue together, ect..

that sucks :(
Don't know how it used to be in the past, but I'm getting the impression that rather than dead the game is "spread too thin" - too many dungeons/trials/activities have been added over time, and this is the obvious outcome.
The fact these dungeons/trials require a huge amount of people only exacerbates this problem, the game has been out for so long and you can't bring NPC in most of this places... appalling, really.

I would like to know S-E rationale/justification for that, for a title that brings in a constant huge flow of cash no less.

Keeping a player subscribed for 6 month is the same of having sold them a tripleA game at launch price, so if I where to guess, they want to keep players in this "limbo" of wasting time queing/afk otherwise they would steamroll through content and most anything major there is to do would be done in approximately 3 months.

I like the game but I don't like greedy companies that value revenue over player QoL/time.

[Veotax]

You can't bring NPCs into them because they are old as hell. NPCs in dungeons only started a few years ago and they've just gone back and added them to old story content. They're not going to add them extreme level content, because it's harder content and NPCs are there so you can just go through easy stuff solo.

Don't try to play this off as some scummy thing they're doing to keep people subscribed, that's just dumb. You're having trouble finding people because it's old as hell optional content no one is doing.