Is Group Finder really broken

nick59349b14_ESO

Kammakazi wrote: »

or is it because people aren't using it, which makes them conclude that it's broken?

Well if it doesn't work how can you use it?? I have consistently waited HOURS and not been grouped on PC. IT'S BROKEN!

Stovahkiin

Bet this was just a Zeni employee that switched accounts and started to post on the forum to try and get us to think that there isn't really something wrong with the game so that they don't have to fix anything .

Undercover employee: "Are you SURE that you aren't enjoying this part of the game O_o?"

Player: "Uh yeah I'm pretty sure, and hundreds of other people have the same problem."

Undercover employee: "Hmm, do you think it would be better if you just imagined that nothing was wrong in the first place?"

nk474

Arthmoor wrote: »

It's definitely still broken. Me and a guildmate were using it last night after the patch they said would fix it. Sat in queue for almost 30 minutes and gave up and plucked randoms out of zone chat at the enclave.

It's not that people aren't using it. It's that it's simply broken, and it was utterly broken when Shadows of the Hist dropped and hasn't worked at all since. We can't even form a group between just the two of us manually anymore unless I'm the one to initiate it, and then it bizarrely won't let me use the dungeon finder at all so I have to pass leader over to him so he can run the finder.

Prior to "Update 11" it worked just fine and we were able to regularly find groups to do Undaunted pledges.

At this point ild be happy with a server wide message board on major cities.

JJBoomer

They either need to fix it or remove it completely. Like it pretty damn shameful to just have a completely broken feature jusr sitting in your game like this.

lord_dal

Sunver wrote: »

The tool was probably broken ages ago. Now it's just not functioning properly because of low player count using it. It's feedback that makes it worse(the more players think it's broken the less players use it and then it seems to be working even worse).

well, its been working great for me for like a month now, getting a group instantly to one hour, as dps, then after the íssue with disconnect/unable to log in a few days ago, I cant get a group regardless of how many hours Im in que, so I would say its broken, rather then few ppl using it.

a1i3nz

Is this a serious question?

Garldeen

They do enough to make it look like they are doing something to fix it. Without actually doing anything

Sleep

it's broken when the server is populous.

Wolfshead

Well I think people on PC version is not use group finder at all i was queue for 10 min last weekend nothing happen but i was queue as DD tho maybe the are no tank or healer using it at all.

MasterSpatula

It's definitely broken right now.

However, there's definitely some community responsibility here, as well. Everyone wants to queue for randoms with a premade group, probably because GF is broken,. But this just means no one is actually queueing for randoms solo or in partial groups, which completely defeats the purpose of ZOS putting in a reward for random dungeons.

I can only blame the community so much here. After all, it's ZOS's fault for the boneheaded idea of giving the reward for random dungeons to premades.

mobicera

MasterSpatula wrote: »

It's definitely broken right now.

However, there's definitely some community responsibility here, as well. Everyone wants to queue for randoms with a premade group, probably because GF is broken,. But this just means no one is actually queueing for randoms solo or in partial groups, which completely defeats the purpose of ZOS putting in a reward for random dungeons.

I can only blame the community so much here. After all, it's ZOS's fault for the boneheaded idea of giving the reward for random dungeons to premades.

I will post this test yet again...
During prime time get 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 dps to que separately, if the que doesn't pop the dungeon finder is not functioning.
My conclusions taken from ps4 Na
If done in the am est (low population times) the que pops in 1m to 10m, the fact that it isn't instant leads me to believe something is amiss.
If done in pm est (prime time) the que simply won't pop. Tests have been done leaving ques active for up to 1h, as well as joining and leaving within 2m to reque. Queing than each person travelling to a different location, nothing seems to work during high population times.
Simple not functioning, faulty programming.

Stovahkiin

GF = Broken. End of discussion.

SolarCat02

vyndral13preub18_ESO wrote: »

nk474 wrote: »

Has it ever really worked?

It seemed to work well for me between TG and DB. But other then that? Not really. And even then people were saying was giving priority to people who were grouped together first. Which would mean single queued people still might have been waiting a whille.

This is true.

Queuing as a healer by myself for a specific dungeon would take about 10-20 minutes to pop, depending on the dungeon. Queuing solo for a random was about 5 minutes tops.

Queuing with myself as healer plus a dps for those same dungeons, the wait was closer to 5-10, while queuing with two dps only for a random would take about 20 minutes to pop.

It still worked much better back then than it does in the current state, for everyone except perhaps a solo DPS. The wait times were still long then (although I think much shorter than now if just picking "random").

Giraffon

Ever since the last DLC was released, it has not been working for me. I've tried both my tank and healz. It just queues you up and leaves you there with a timer counting. Tanks and healz don't usually have to wait very long for random normal dungeons. I say this based on my experiences after DB was released and before the Shadows of the Hist came out. Something's not right.

Troneon

Fixed yet?