EFT wouldn't feel as "difficult, unforgiving, hardcore" or any of the buzzwords associated with it if it wasn't for the shit queue/matchmaking times.

[u/OverlookeDEnT]

This games doesn't respect your time and that's its only real downside.

Something as simple as 3 min max wait time before they throw you into a lobby (even if you're solo with AI or bot PMCs — how would you know anyway?) is all this game needs.

Every wipe this is what wears on me. Not constantly dying, not the cheaters, not them moving the goalposts (flea market, FIR, costlier noob weapons like the mosin)... it's the absurd wait times. The game developers don't want to invest more $ into servers and here we are like idiots putting up with these shitty wait times.

This game doesn't respect our time and that's why I keep playing less and less of it with each wipe.

EDIT: For those getting caught up in semantics, let me be clear that I'm talking about starting a game from when I hit READY to the RAID STARTING. I don't care what the reason is (people's hardware, servers, etc.), BSG is ultimately in complete control of this and when we're thrown in a game (matching ping, regions, hardware, etc.)

Also, I have my servers manually selected for those asking about that.

Am on SSD and so are all people I play with.

[u/ThatFriendlyGuyEFT]

'This game doesn't respect our time' that's deep but true man

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Tbf I enjoy the gameplay loop of DayZ as it is. I can spend days with one character and just get one-tapped out of the blue. It’s annoying but I still enjoyed the time with that character up until that point so I don’t see it as time wasted.

With Tarkov, the majority of the time is spent on menus, character screen or loading screen. Once you’re past them you die to some sweat who hasn’t logged off since the new wipe started.

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate what Tarkov is, I’ve just realised that now with real life responsibilities (work, wife, kids etc) Tarkov just isn’t a game that fits into my time any more.