I have recently purchased ffxi again (yes again), with the full intention of playing with a close friend of mine who has played for years on the alexander server.

Now due to the server merging, this is unable to be done, and I have purchased a game that I cannot even play at all until the update occurs, due to the fact that I can NOT create a character on that specific server, March 16th was the original date of the merge.

My question being, is there any thing i can do about this or am I screwed until the update which has no set day?

And there is no way he will transfer off his server nor will his wife, so that option is out.