We’ve all been there, sitting in a solo shuffle or dungeon queue for 35 mins. Get up to go to the bathroom or grab a drink only to come back and realize the queue popped the second you walked away.
A feature to pause the queue so you can step away without losing your position for a couple mins would be super helpful.
Wouldn’t pausing and unpausing cause absolute mayhem for the queue and estimated time?
I don’t think so? It should just move everyone else in front of you until you unpause.
The worst part is that people think it should be normal and acceptable to sit in a queue for anywhere near this length of time.
Let me queue for a dungeon on my Paladin while I play my druid. When the queue pops it logs me off and back onto my Paladin for the dungeon/raid/pvp/whatever.
Just un-queue.
You want all the benefits of being in line without actually being in line, lol.
This is why working in retail stores sucks, lol.
Everyone thinks they can just sidestep when they want to, but that’s not now lines work.
Yeah but then you get back and unpause and it pushes everyone else back.
Doesn’t sound like too much of an issue until you have 10,000 people jumping in and out of queue.
Dunno, just reminds me of the (admittedly different) issue they had with uldaman queues prioritising people with the quest making it so people who didn’t have the quest would just sit in limbo for hours because they just get bumped down infinitely.
This was a thing? I didn’t know that. I always got into that place quickly.
Hate that. Youre in queue for 9 minutes and it says average time is 30. So you run to the bathroom or something and 2 seconds later DAH DA DUN DAHHHHH!!!
For all we know this might already be an unwritten feature. You pop queue, miss it, and your next queue is deceptively shorter. I mean it definitely does suck to pop queue and miss it because bio. Especially after 30 minutes.
I think some sort of auto requeue at 50% place would be nice. Or if the time it took you to requeue put you back into the queue at some percent difference. Then again the problem with any solution is players will absolutely use it destructively.
It already pauses your queue if you queue up for multiple things and join one of them. The remainder of your entries are paused.
This isn’t some global human moral failing or traveling salesman problem.
Lol I’d just un-queue if I had to pee or whatever, instead of relying on the queue itself not to pop/pause it.
Yeah, we’ve got the tech for a queue pause, but I’d like to think it’s not been implemented for a reason.
What happens when a ton of people keep pausing/unpausing queues to game the system? I’m very certain this kinda thing can be broken easily lol.
Amateur. Our household has a buddy system.
pause would be nice. my biggest gripe is when someone declines and you get “put back in the front of the queue” and its another 20 mins. dungeons should be like LFR, the 4 that accept should zone in and it finds the 5th, whatever role it might be.
Or, since we’re all adults, we could just be a little more responsible and pee before we queue. I mean, did no one take trips in the car as a kid? What was one of the first things your parents made you do before walking out of the house? “Go use the bathroom, because we’re not stopping till we get there!” “But I don’t have to pee!” “Go anyway!”
And they weren’t wrong most of the time. I don’t see how it’s so difficult to just be sure you’re ready before joining the queue. I get emergencies happen, and that’s perfectly understandable, but we all know there are people that habitually join and walk away.
I’d imagine it wouldn’t be any more stressful on the system than the current multi-queue setup. If it’s problematic for an individual to repeatedly pause/unpause, it can be limited to a certain amount of actions per minute.
But yea, this is something I’ve wanted, personally, as some queues stretch for over an hour.
Pretend it’s an RV, then. If we’re all adults, we know that there are more things that occur than just having to pee. There’s no reason to impose arbitrary limits because of more restrictive analogies.
This type of argument just seems arbitrary. Why should we have any QoL improvement, because “back in my day”…
It’s not just because, “back in my day.” It’s just common sense. You should always prepare yourself for any task you’re doing. It’s also courteous to your fellow players. Everyone’s asking for a solution from Blizzard, but this is one of those things WE can fix as players.
According to GD, this is a “tin foil hat theory” and the queues are working as intended 
It’s a game, though. It’s precedence is going to be lower than a lot of other things. Also, there are much more unexpected things likely to happen while you are at home in the normal course of things than, for instance, in a car:
Not to mention those particular times when I’m queued for multiple things and finish one thing and IMMEDIATELY the next queue pops. That’s a bit of a different issue, though, as I think they should delay rejoining. There are times when a cutscene comes up or loot is being rolled on or discussed/traded, etc. and there is virtually no time to accept the next queue
EDIT: I’d also add in-game issues like being in the middle of a race or a big fight, things like that.
This isn’t side stepping, this is waiting your turn to go down a slide, having no idea where you are in the line. Bending down to toe your shoe and someone telling you back to the back of the line you missed your turn.