Error 3. How is this still a problem?

I decided to make a sudden CE purchase and I've been trying since oh I dunno, 8:20pm PST. It's now 12:03am and I am getting so frustrated. I've tried numerous things. I also have two other people trying in my house and neither of them can get it to work either. Ugh.
Apparently they forgot to tell us for every person it works for they have to restart the servers so nobody else can. xD

So coming up on 5 hours trying to get my early access code. The system was a terrible idea and whoever thought it up should be fired. I think the part that is frustrating me the most is the status message at the top that seems to change automatically at set times. I am paraphrasing but it basically says, " Ha ha, several people have already registered you should too, we all look forward to getting started early its going to be great. I bet we can get you to click this button over and over for hours on end without giving you anything in return you pathetic sap."

The other annoying thing is I am a 1.0 account non-legacy who didn't realize I wouldn't have early access without preordering so I am doing this last minute instead of having ordered earlier which is where I think some of the issue is coming in at.

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Originally Posted by Shinikitty

So coming up on 5 hours trying to get my early access code. The system was a terrible idea and whoever thought it up should be fired. I think the part that is frustrating me the most is the status message at the top that seems to change automatically at set times. I am paraphrasing but it basically says, " Ha ha, several people have already registered you should too, we all look forward to getting started early its going to be great. I bet we can get you to click this button over and over for hours on end without giving you anything in return you pathetic sap."

The other annoying thing is I am a 1.0 account non-legacy who didn't realize I wouldn't have early access without preordering so I am doing this last minute instead of having ordered earlier which is where I think some of the issue is coming in at.

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I'm in the same boat, except I keep getting EU Codes instead of NA.. And I am using the Preorder.NA site..

That said- If someone needs a EU Early Access Code.. Lemme know.

pro·cras·ti·nate (pr-krst-nt, pr-)
v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates
v.intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v.tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.

August 20th was the date that they opened the pre-order website.... Now since a lot of you waited till last minute, well... obviously there will be some issues. Don't blame SE for your procrastination ^^.

Looks like they ran out of codes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._se_is_out_of/

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Originally Posted by Rootzo

pro·cras·ti·nate (pr-krst-nt, pr-)
v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates
v.intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v.tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.

August 20th was the date that they opened the pre-order website.... Now since a lot of you waited till last minute, well... obviously there will be some issues. Don't blame SE for your procrastination ^^.

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Yes, that's what we wanted, a lecture, thanks very much. -.-

because some of us had to wait to be paid to get the game

Or some of us make spontaneous purchases...

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Originally Posted by Rootzo

pro·cras·ti·nate (pr-krst-nt, pr-)
v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates
v.intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v.tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.

August 20th was the date that they opened the pre-order website.... Now since a lot of you waited till last minute, well... obviously there will be some issues. Don't blame SE for your procrastination ^^.

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Hi. I'm a paying customer. I am paying for Early Access by Pre-Ordering. It doesn't matter that signups were opened up on August 20th. What matters is that I Pre-Ordered it before launch day and I expect to be able to use the product that I paid for. I am likely (and hopefully) still going to get this, but my point is that it is not procrastination when I am a paying customer for a service that I am not yet able to use and should for all intents and purposes be able to.

Further more, they should have expected a flood of pre-orders leading up to launch day, if only to get some of the extra in-game items. Also, procrastination in this case would be buying the game on Monday. Not to mention a lot of us were still a little unsure if they wanted to buy into another MMO, especially one that flopped on its first release.

I'm also suffering from the dreaded error 3. Can we get someone from SE to make a statement? Is this going to be addressed soon? Do we just have to wait for the congestion to go down? Throw us a bone, guys. Just trying to get what we paid for.