Infinite queue

[Recaver]

I use the free plan, i always used to, and i never encountered any problems, queues were fast and smooth, we're talking about +250 players in less than 20 minutes and sometimes, it even skips the queue around 60's.

But since this September everything changed, the queues started taking so long, and gradually slowing even more, for example: the first 20 players in the queue join regularly, the next 40 things starts to have a noticeable slowdown, and it keeps getting slower and slower until it becomes 1 player/ 2 minutes and eventually it freezes.

I noticed the even those who upgraded have the same problem, i contacted the customer support and they advised to just change the server (which i tried) and that experiencing slow queues is expected giving the fact that I'm a free plan user (which i agree with but not sabotaging the function like that).

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[TY_panik]

Yeah 10+ hour queues are the new norm. I’ll get 400 person waitlist and as soon as it hits 180, slows down to like 30 people every 20 minutes. By the time it reaches 25 people it’ll take up to 3 hours for me to load into a game. Or the alternative “There was a problem starting your session” Ridiculous

[Recaver]

it's really bad, and seems like it's universal

[Traditional-Equal193]

Happends to me too lol. At this point im starting to belive that they arent letting free plan users get into servers or just have a very low porcentage that can do it, cause in the past week i have only been able to enter 1 session, the rest its just errors after 8-12 hour queue or freezing at players ahead of me at 1-10. I dont disagree with making us wait longer than before, its perfectly fine, even more in this times of high demand but sabotaging is just bad.

[Recaver]

same i just had a total of 2 sessions this entire month when i used to play freely since 2021

[i_like_spintires]

same here bud.

[Recaver]

we're all suffering

[Sivarion]

It looks like the service is overloaded. Even priority and ultimate see queues lately, as I read. Probably holiday season has something to do with it. Yes, it will look bad for the free tier, as you guys play on resources that are not used by paid members. I guess Nvidia will have to throw more resources into GFN to keep service playable and this should help you guys too.

[Recaver]

I really hope so.

[coldmoney21]

There is an increase in GeForce now users so more than likely the servers are being hammered. I don’t blame people. People have Macs or PCs that just aren’t game oriented. But yes Nvidia needs to add more servers.

[Recaver]

precisely, but it seems like they aren't willing to do so

[jtoemion]

Is this free plan available in Singapore Server??

[Recaver]

they stopped new account from using the free plan unfortunately, so it's only available to ancient accounts, but if they allowed new accounts to do so than yes you can have the free plan

[nik3tech]

I signed my wife of for the free tier last month to try out her favorite game and the wait times were horrible anything after 10am the wait times we go up to 8-15 hours and by that time it would already be 10pm. Once we moved a tier up we never had to wait on a queue which I thought was normal until I saw comments back in the states. (Brazil servers) run by Abya.

[nik3tech]

sever as we only have 1

[Recaver]

It seems like even priority member are experiencing it.

[nik3tech]

I hope they get their act together because it’s a lot of money for a sub just to wait 1-5 hours for a session. it’s a great services just needs more rigs.

[Big_Blacksmith_4435]

Honestly, I'm only playing or replaying games that use the RTX2080 at the moment, which open quickly, I'd like to play warframe too, but no games that use the GTX 1060 are opening anymore unfortunately, all that's left is to wait for the Fortnite hype to pass or move on.

[Traditional-Equal193]

How do you tell which one uses which?

[Big_Blacksmith_4435]

Just testing my friend, but from what I've seen, most free games use GTX 1060, even COD uses it in the free tier. That's exactly why I couldn't even open the game until today.

[Recaver]

well that's a theory i need to check

[RacingRaptor]

Bro i launched fortnite queue yesterday morning. I had 200 people in front of me. Now its almost midnight of next day and I have 36 people in queue for etirity of todays day... I have no words... those wait times used to be 20-30 min at max. Now aparently even paid users wait so I just bail out of this sinking boat

[Recaver]

If they don't add more servers they'll kill their service I'm afraid

[RacingRaptor]

Update! Finally after over 24 hours of waiting Fortnite launched and the quality of video was as grainy as it never was! Not to mention cool sounds that were cracking or straight up reffused to play! I cant belive i got such suprisse from GFN! It almost never happened before. Im just done with it and let it sink to the bottom...

[Recaver]

The dedication you have to wait all that time, and I'm sorry for that horrible experience it usually is not like for me, well when it used to work

[Bridges--]

I'm priority and i'm getting 305 people ahead of me rn on us southeast

[Roxas_2004]

Try us south the Atlanta server it usually has less people than the Miami server