New Character Creation

I'm currently tired of the servers never reflecting the News. at 11:00 am pdt they "updated" the character creation restriction lists. But in-game, is another story entirely. I've been waiting for days to get onto Balmung, it says creation is allowed on Balmung right now. But at character creation, it says the opposite. It's really frustrating. I bought the game a week ago, and have yet to be able to play on the server i want, for any time longer then an hour.

They haven't even updated the news post for the creation and its now 28 minutes overdue! I woke up specifically to try and get my wife into my server Excalibur. Actually the legacy servers should have been world pass entry only from the beginning. What a way to screw over the people who actually bought this game multiple times SE!

Problem is that people are making all 8 characters on the same server which is congesting the servers. I understand they pay to be allowed to do this but because they are doing this it is preventing all others from making characters on that server. Personally I think they should have only allowed one on each server, maybe 2. That would lighten the load on the servers, allow more to play with their friends, and people would only have to pay the 13 bucks a month that those who can make 1 pay. Now I understand there are some people that are going to flame this post of mine because they dont agree and a majority are going to be the ones I like to call "Server Hogs" and dont care about the other people wanting to play on a server with their friends. This is their opinion and their choice and regardless who agrees with it, it does not matter. Lets just hope the servers get a boost LARGE enough to compensate these individuals and allow us to actually play with our friends.

Having multiple characters on the same server doesn't really cause congestion. Unless you're logged in on all 8 characters at the same time, which I don't believe is possible, then each character merely takes up storage space. The congestion is caused by high population. I have trouble believing that everyone is congested around the starting area, and it's also hard to believe that the server is at its maximum capacity at 2 in the morning. It must be awful trying to play during peak hours if the slowest hours are still full capacity.

I really just wish SE would give some kind of comment on the matter.

Can I create a character somewhere else and get a free migration later?

Can I get an extra week beyond the free week already given to us because I still can't play for their own sever instability?

Can I get an estimated time of availability for when these servers will be allowing character creation?

I'm expecting a 'No' for the first two, but because there is absolutely no comment on any of these questions, I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs on the forums...

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Originally Posted by Timbob

Problem is that people are making all 8 characters on the same server which is congesting the servers. I understand they pay to be allowed to do this but because they are doing this it is preventing all others from making characters on that server. Personally I think they should have only allowed one on each server, maybe 2. That would lighten the load on the servers, allow more to play with their friends, and people would only have to pay the 13 bucks a month that those who can make 1 pay. Now I understand there are some people that are going to flame this post of mine because they dont agree and a majority are going to be the ones I like to call "Server Hogs" and dont care about the other people wanting to play on a server with their friends. This is their opinion and their choice and regardless who agrees with it, it does not matter. Lets just hope the servers get a boost LARGE enough to compensate these individuals and allow us to actually play with our friends.

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Dont make any sense
Character info is stored in data banks, they dont transmit data to the server unless logged in , if that happened it would be quite useless and inefficient
If idle logged off characters transmitted such info WoW servers would need a small town in terms of space

Their argument of locking up character creation is quite weak tho, there are not even queues anymore most of the time in most servers, they are only stopping the income of new people

I demand an estimate world transfers so I get to play with my friends :(

Locking character creation was an absolutely stupid idea and one that isn't going to solve the problem of server population. At this point it is probably too late for a real solution, like log-in queues, since those people who would be willing to move servers because of a queue are not higher level and would be unwilling to move.

Square needs to take a free market approach and let the server populations fix themselves instead of imposing character locks that at this rate will never go away.

What is this, the second or third week and we're still not able to create new characters on those locked servers?

I think I've reached the point of simply not caring. I've lost almost all interest in this game due to all the botched decisions they've made and just find any time I spend looking into updates is just wasted time.

Some sort of message would be great. I'm not able to play with friends on Behemoth, so I'm playing a class I typically wouldn't play in case I can't transfer, when/if it ever opens.

they have been updating the character creation issues every 5 hours, if you open your game client there is an option to view it. only 4 na servers are still being restricted where as there are 13 japanese servers still being restricted as of 12:30 sept 9. so the other na server should open in a day or 2 and the japanese server will prob take more then a week

While I understand the need to throttle character creation there should be a way to tag our accounts so we can create new ones on the same server. There is no way I can log onto more than one character at a time on my one account. SO they are basically saying screw you guys who are actually playing and enjoying the game and want another character.

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Originally Posted by warkev

they have been updating the character creation issues every 5 hours, if you open your game client there is an option to view it. only 4 na servers are still being restricted where as there are 13 japanese servers still being restricted as of 12:30 sept 9. so the other na server should open in a day or 2 and the japanese server will prob take more then a week

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There were four or so locked for NA this morning. The latest update shows ten. In-game, there are twelve so your theories are incorrect. I really don't see this being let up anytime soon at this rate.

Great now all the servers are open minus the big 6
A good omen, but I wished for them to be open already -.-

I have to add my complaint in with the others in hopes that we will get some kind of response from SE.

What is the problem here? I've been locked in to two options since buying this game: don't play or play the one character I was able to make before the locks went in to place. I'm already on Cactaur... is there seriously no way to allow those who already are on the server to make new characters? I am quite sure that the excuse of 'fairness' is out the window given the whirlwind of crazy that has surrounded this launch.

I've been really patient but would like to roll a new character. I'd be happy to do so on a new server so I could quit my griping, but there has been zero news on rather or not we will get a free transfer. The window for patience has closed. I'm not going to threaten to leave the game because it's good stuff and my threat would be idle and nonproductive. What then, does SE suggest I do? Oh... right... continue to be patient.

/hulksmashSE

EDIT: Now a friend purchased the game this evening. Upon asking me what server to join me on, I couldn't tell her Cactaur BECAUSE IT IS STILL LOCKED! So I guess I just roll on a new server with her, but oh, wait... the other RL friends I'm already playing with have invested 2 weeks of time in to our characters on this server so I guess we can work the transfers out but... oh, no, not that either so... I guess we're screwed until...???????

/explode

I have the same issue; several of my friends are on legacy players on Excalibur, and that's the server my guild is based in. I have yet to be able to play with them, and I don't particularly want to level up a character somewhere that I'll may not be able to move or have to pay to move to Excalibur. The free week doesn't address that problem at all. If I'm not playing due to not being able to create a character on those servers, I'm just not playing.

Wonder if my wife's free game time is wasting away at the character creation screen waiting for Excalibur to open up...

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Originally Posted by xellos

The free week doesn't address that problem at all. If I'm not playing due to not being able to create a character on those servers, I'm just not playing.

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I have wondered about this myself. The way it looks from SE is that my trial is going to expire with me still being unable to create a character with my friends. Hopefully they keep all of the trials active until character creation is enabled for all servers and then start the timer.

I have zero interest in playing the game without my friends. It is truly a missed opportunity because most of my adoration for the Final Fantasy franchise is based on the work of Square Soft. I believe an entire generation of fans exist that have yet to be impressed by Square Enix. Best of luck to all

Is it possible to give the players some indication on when the server restrictions will be lifted for the 4-5 NA Worlds which have not allowed character creation since release day?

Even if the response is "We will not open these worlds for character creation at all." then at least players could plan their future activities knowing what will happen.

By telling players that the Worlds will open, but then the Worlds do not open, it only make players frustrated.

Just set a date when they will be open, and tell people, please.

People play MMOs to play with friends. If they can't play with friends, they should be charged.

Are you guys going to keep Cactaur down all week? I have friends that want to join me here, maybe you should get rid of the gil sellers and bots I have been seeing and reporting so you can free up some space for others. Not saying that is entirely the issue. Just fix it please. :C

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Originally Posted by Himea

Moogle(EU), Ultros(NA), Behemoth(NA), Cactuar(NA), Excalibur(NA Legacy), and Hyperion(NA Legacy) have all been perma-locked.

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Please unlock these severs for character creation after the maintenance today or give us an update on their future character creation status. A lot of people have been delayed from playing with their friends/family members due to the ongoing restrictions on these particular worlds.

It's been more than a week since the last maintenance and Ultros hasn't been open for characters at all! I have friends who bought the game and have been waiting to play. They were hoping that Ultros would be unlocked for character creation soon after the last maintenance but it never happened and they have wasted a good chunk of their free trial time! :(

My friend bought this game a week ago with the hopes of joining myself and other friends on Hyperion server, and has been unable to do so.

He tried to make a post in this thread to express his frustrations, but SE does not allow you to make forum posts unless you have an active character. This means that there are many, MANY more new players who are frustrated with trying to join their friends than this thread can possibly reflect, since SE has effectively silenced these new players from voicing their concerns.

GG SE.

I got sick of waiting a couple days ago and just made a character on Leviathan. The Mog service promises a character transfer feature in mid-September. I expect some kind of free transfer when the servers are more stable... if it isn't free or on a special sale I'll be angry - but I was so sick of waiting to play I'm honestly ready to pay a small fee just to transfer so that I can play now. I'm already wasting game time by waiting.

I've been told that Guild Wars 2 offered free transfers after their launch hype, hopefully Square Enix will be just as forgiving.

Have been playing MMO's for years with a tight nit group of friends. I was on vacation when servers went live and for some god awful reason SE has made the decision to lock out servers. The whole squad started on Cactuar and I, the intended tank, have been left out in the cold.

Out of boredom I have started an off server toon while waiting but each level I grow more disgust toward a game I have loved and played since NES was the top dog. In order to maintain group cohesion we may all be shortly leaving this game for good in search of a different game where everyone is allowed to play on the same server.

I surely am not alone as I have seen countless other posters relaying similar stories. Sad to see SE shoot themselves in the foot so soon on what appeared to be a decent remake of their last flop.

This waiting on getting into my friend's server is killing me. I'm also going to buy a copy for my girlfriend to play along with us, but I'm cautious of her and I starting before the servers allow new characters again because I have no idea if server transfers will be free, or even really affordable, or if they're actually going to be offered in "mid-September" for the server I want to transfer to, since it's been consistently full.

Please, please don't leave us in the dark; tell us when we're going to be able to create on any server again, and what it's going to cost those who don't have the patience to wait weeks and have already started on other servers, hoping for transfers. And the least you can do to ensure this launch keeps up the great momentum it's had is to make the first transfer free.

An opening for Moogle would be most welcome, have friends trying since the first time restrictions were applied and none of them could yet creat a character to play with me. :(

I am still waiting on Cactuar to open as I have friends waiting who are rather frustrated because it is almost the only server to not have allowed new characters, I feel for them I just hope that they open the server soon

Three weeks, 8 friends, 5 of whom were Legacy or early purchase, 2 being husband and wife, still not on the same server, still no date on the elusive server transfer promised for mid-September (*does hard Maths and figures 15 is half of 30*). Maybe it's NEXT September! I have a wagon load of stuff/jobs on my main from Legacy and I'm aware that in 3 weeks of playing these friends all have invested significant time, so they won't want to wipe and recreate, so we're hanging waiting on a promise which has not even been given a date, and even then, won't give us any certainty. Then there's the 719+ page thread by people who have code allocation issues, so I don't for one moment want to suggest we're the only players who have issues.

I like FF. I don't like the fact that years of FF1 and then FF14 1.0 plus ARR has made me feel neurotic about the high degree of difficulty involved in playing with friends and family, for which I pay, monthly. I don't like that I'm asking my friends to get up at weird hours to check character creation restrictions, when they have jobs and study comittments. I play GW2, for which I don't pay. I can guest as many times to any 2 worlds in 48hrs, and play with friends. I can transfer worlds, once a week if I feel nomadic, for a small fee, if guesting doesn't quite fill the bill. And yes, GW2, like most MMOs had some lobby server issues at startup, but they addressed those very smartly. Three weeks isn't smartly, but I was very smartly emailed today by SE about the commencement of billing.

It bothers me that I'm paying to be frustrated. I like the game, I like my friends, but a game is supposed to be for enjoyment, relaxation, and there are a lot of people who are getting neither, but being asked shortly to start paying, and for whom the only thing that commenced early was frustration. Paying and staying indefinitely, with no sign of world transfer or promise of success, and the increasing likelihood that to play with even one friend means dumping my main (which I've been told for a year I could keep), is stupid, being stressed about which friendships get sacrificed is stupid. None of us can spend our day playing 3 MMOs to keep in contact, the reality is our lives.

SE's current silence about world transfer and the realisation of an MMO experience you can enjoy with your friends is a big black hole. I see plenty in the forums from devs about fixing other issues, but I don't want to be able to ring a retainer bell in a dozen more places, I'd just like to be ringing it, like all the previous posters would, in the same place as my friends.

Please give us something concrete regarding server transfer, SE, because with every passing day, the only reality is that some of us will stop playing completely, some of us will have to start new characters and lose progress (if character creation opens up), and some of us who played FF together for many years will simply never do so again.

Not quite what we were promised.

Heard rumors that the last patch which force booted all of the thousands of players, who never log out, to actually log out. Set my alarm clock and crossed my fingers. Logged in just before servers were supposed to go live again and to my delight green light for creation on all servers.

This is a two-fold post...
Point one: All you posters who wanted to join up, do it now! No telling how long the gap will be.

Point two: SE get your head out of your arses and implement a boot feature for inactive players. Not only will this decrease player loads on your servers for all those selfish players who are burning up your capital resources while they are sleeping/working/or whatever else it is that they do, but will help to correct the single most complained about problem in your current meta-game. Unless of course you believe that people never step away from the game to live their lives.

I was able to get around the creation bans and I hope a few of u did too.:cool:

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Originally Posted by Stormhaven

Heard rumors that the last patch which force booted all of the thousands of players, who never log out, to actually log out. Set my alarm clock and crossed my fingers. Logged in just before servers were supposed to go live again and to my delight green light for creation on all servers.

This is a two-fold post...
Point one: All you posters who wanted to join up, do it now! No telling how long the gap will be.

Point two: SE get your head out of your arses and implement a boot feature for inactive players. Not only will this decrease player loads on your servers for all those selfish players who are burning up your capital resources while they are sleeping/working/or whatever else it is that they do, but will help to correct the single most complained about problem in your current meta-game. Unless of course you believe that people never step away from the game to live their lives.

I was able to get around the creation bans and I hope a few of u did too.:cool:

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Did you read what was added during the maintenance... apparently not... AFK timer is now in the game.

Well Moogle (EU) is already locked to new character creation again. I think it was open for about 3 hours after the patch. So expect to see the NA ones lock as well as people get online.

And with still no solid word on character transfers, seems we're still no further forward on this whole issue.

bah my mate hasn't been able to even play the game since he bought it 2 weeks ago , there is no point him making a char on another server he needs to join with me and the rest of our guild on moogle.....

give us some INFORMATION its taking the complete piss now

I was able to get on and create at around 0230PDT, RIGHT as the servers came back on. Played for 2ish hours and then Emergency Maintenance hit. Seems the best time is right after the servers come up. Every single server was accepting when I looked. But with the AFK auto logout, maybe we will see less lockouts.

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Originally Posted by xellos

I have the same issue; several of my friends are on legacy players on Excalibur, and that's the server my guild is based in. I have yet to be able to play with them, and I don't particularly want to level up a character somewhere that I'll may not be able to move or have to pay to move to Excalibur. The free week doesn't address that problem at all. If I'm not playing due to not being able to create a character on those servers, I'm just not playing.

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This is my exact same position.

I finally got in Ultros after waiting a week. Those still waiting I'd check today and see if they made any changes. If the servers keep locking just wait till next maintenance and set an alarm

WHEN?

Will there be free ones for anyone caught in X situation before X date?

When will PAID transfers begin?

Looks like all the realms are available now. If not at this specific time, will be during less congested hours. Now for those transfers...

I'm happy to report that I was finally able to make a second toon on Ultros. Just looking it is still open too. Must have been a large number of afk sitters to clog it up that bad.

What the hell is this guys?! They open character creation for my server, Behemoth, and I drive all the way home from work just to make a character. Lo and behold I CAN'T? The server is grayed out! What is this? I haven't been able to make a new character in weeks.