Can you please activate the 'Return to Home World' button in the character screen?

I assumed just as every major update or expansion in the past that the game would just automatically send me to my home world. Now I cannot log in because I'm on a different world, the 'return to home world' button does not work and I cannot log into any data center that allows transfer. Can the Return to Home World button be activated please so I can use it to log in? Or am I screwed for the next 3 or 4 weeks before the server stability (something that SE had years to prepare for) is back to normal?

I'm having the same problem, already sent a support request on the main site hoping that they will be able to do something about it.

Same happened to me.
Couldn't log in before maintenance and now I'm stuck at character loggin screen, not being able to log into the World where I am or going back to my own.

its working

Not for me.

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Originally Posted by du0m4xwell

its working

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Not calling you a liar, but it is clearly not working. Could you explain where/what you are doing?

They warned about this on official website.

I am stranded off my home realm as well and unable to travel back.

They did suggest returning to your Home World before the update in order to avoid congestion issues.

From the pre-launch announcement:

Additionally, characters that were visiting another World prior to Patch 7.0 will still be able to return to their Home World regardless of traveling restrictions, but their ability to return may be temporarily impeded by periods of server congestion. As such, if your character is currently visiting a World that will have traveling restrictions, we advise returning them to their Home World before Patch 7.0 maintenance begins, as the restrictions will lower your login priority.

After trying again, I was able to log into Lamia (My home world is Hyperion). Now the question is...do i stay here? Or try to head back to my home server? I assume the attempt to head back to my home server will not work. I'm debating on trying to return home to switch over to Dynamis to play with friends. But I dont want to play now and be locked out again tomorrow when I try to log in again. What do you all recommend, or if this was your case, what would you do?


EDIT: So apparently you can log into a world that is not your home world if you logged off before update there. The only thing is that the game will give priority to the people who are from that world over you. It just takes more time than normal. Took me about 30 min total to get sorted.

Having the same issue. "Unable to select Hyperion as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time." and also cannot log into the world they are currently visiting due to congestion (Error 3088).

The inability to return home message sounds like it's related to the server congestion status (set by the dev team) instead of actual traffic. The queue to log into Hyperion right now is 38 when I tried with another character, so it's either not reading the congestion the same way as it does for queuing or there's some delay on the status updating.

I would really, really like the ability to play the game as this character. Ideally by being able to return to my home world, but if I could at least queue into the world I'm visiting that would be okay for now until the returning issue is resolved.

Same issue, unable to return home to Behemoth and will not queue me up to log in to Gilgamesh.

It is the same with me

I'm having the exact same issue, logged off in Siren, can't return to Behemoth or log in to Siren.

I am having same problem. I need to return Brynhildr from Siren!

same here, when will it be fixed?

This is the kind of shit I would expect from Blizzard not SE....

Back to Elden Ring while my character is stuck in limbo due to short sighted decision making.

Same issue was on levi got stuck on siren sent a support ticket but they did nothing to help

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They warned about this on official website.

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But it's not even true. Both the destination and the low pop server I'm stuck on have zero congestion. I should at least be able to play int he world is tuck in with 14 queue

ok, fist post in here, i want help my character is stuck on Dinamis, and cant no return to lamia, i get this message, Unable to select lamia as a destinatio for a return to home world request at this time, what can i do, please help

My friend and I logged out in Mateus to play together, but since visitors cannot log in I decided to click 'return to home'
My home is Famfrit in the Primal data center.
I just want to return home. I don't care how long the queue is as long as there is a queue.
But it wont let me return home at all.

I can finally return home!
time is 9:50 eastern

It's fixed, I was able to return to Behemoth just a second ago.

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It's fixed, I was able to return to Behemoth just a second ago.

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yea its fixed 9:15 am

Can confirm this is fixed as of 9:07 AM when I initiated home world return from Dynamis to Aether.

Seemingly not for everyone - I still can't go home from Crystal to Aether.

Edit: It looks world-specific. Currently, Gilgamesh and Phoenix are the only ones I know are still having the issue; Shadow might be, but it's unclear.

I'm still having an issue with returning home as I'm currently stuck in Crystal - Mateus but I need to return to Aether - Gilgamesh. I don't know if this will be patched or I might miss out on early access to dawntrail.

Also unable to return from Crystal to Aether. Been trying since launch to no avail.

I'm a traveller from balmung, and was unable to go back to gilgamesh before the maintaince because I continue to get denied before the maintance hit, this is 20 minutes ago before maintance.

Now I can't play or experience the expansion because my character is stuck in limbo, I can't log in to balmung, I can't return to home World, I can't even be able to move to a different world, I can't even move to a different data center to go to dynamis what don't have these issues.

I feel like I'm being punished for helping folks out.

Literally the exact same thing happened to me. Went to help out a friend with a duty, attempted to come back about 40 mins before the servers went down for maintenance but continually got error 300 when trying to go back. This is absolutely absurd how in a 2 day maintenance window that they don't send every character that's a traveller back to their home world.

Their official status report states it was fixed so I jumped servers to buy something off the AH on Hyperion from Excalibur. I've been trapped on Hyperion for two and a half hours. I understand they said this would be an issue yesterday, but today they said they fixed it, and I'm still stuck. This is making it so people can't even log into Hyperion because other characters are stuck there trying to go home. They need to at least update the status report so people don't think the issue is resolved and attempt to hop thinking they can get back home.

Greetings,

Currently, all Worlds on the North America data center, except for Dynamis Worlds, are at their login limit. Aether Data Center in particular has long queues for each of its Worlds.

Those who are looking to avoid login queues are recommended to use Data Center Travel to visit the Dynamis Data Center as it still has room to accommodate players. Once the World login limit is reached, the stress placed on the server is substantial. So, as a precaution against Worlds going down under heavy loads, those who are currently away from their Home World may be unable to return temporarily.

While we experienced issues surrounding returning to Home Worlds at the start of early access, the current message: "Unable to select [World] as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time" is normal. This means your Home World is at capacity and not accepting logins or returns. While unable to return to your Home World, you may continue to play on your current World and try to return again later.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to keep the service operating optimally.

Tried to get back to Behemoth, have been trying for over two hours now. Sent a message to SE about it and get an email back saying its fixed.

Its not.

This is the first expansion I get to play live and I've asked off work for it and everybody I know is playing and having fun and I can't.

https://i.ibb.co/hXFNZ6q/cant.png

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Hi Zhexos, thanks for the update.

While it's understandable what you said, there's still a lot of people in a limbo that can't do anything at all.

For example, my friend from Behemoth for some reason traveled to Aether DC.

Currently he can't:
#1 Log in to Aether:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless

#2 He can't return to their original server.
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless

And lastly, #3, he can't go to another world (e.g Dynamis as well as it's disabled).
https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...ality=lossless

So, login is disabled, return to homeworld is disabled, and transfer to another world is also disabled.

How can he proceed, then?

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This is my current scenario as well, and I know a few other people with the same issues. "While unable to return to your Home World, you may continue to play on your current World and try to return again later." is simply not true. If we were able to queue on the data center we're visiting then it would be fine but we are locked out from logging in as well by error code 3088.

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Greetings,

Currently, all Worlds on the North America data center, except for Dynamis Worlds, are at their login limit. Aether Data Center in particular has long queues for each of its Worlds.

Those who are looking to avoid login queues are recommended to use Data Center Travel to visit the Dynamis Data Center as it still has room to accommodate players. Once the World login limit is reached, the stress placed on the server is substantial. So, as a precaution against Worlds going down under heavy loads, those who are currently away from their Home World may be unable to return temporarily.

While we experienced issues surrounding returning to Home Worlds at the start of early access, the current message: "Unable to select [World] as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time" is normal. This means your Home World is at capacity and not accepting logins or returns. While unable to return to your Home World, you may continue to play on your current World and try to return again later.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to keep the service operating optimally.

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Yeah, as others have said, if I could even log onto the current server I'd be fine, but visitors aren't allowed to do that. I can't go home, I can't randomly world visit (which was created in the first place to help with congestion, wasn't it?), and I can't log on. I paid for a preorder, traveled to another world as instructed, and now can't play what I paid for at all. It's frustrating to say the least.

Still unable to return back to my home world gilgamesh, still stuck on balmung.

I wish there was two seperate lines that are functional at all times, of folks trying to log in to the homeworld, and folks that trying to return back to their homeworld, and like a traffic officer, allow these two to switch to let folks back in.

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Greetings

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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but please find time to respond to the eye strain issue talked about in this forum post:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ate-Eye-Strain

There's a group of people who are currently entirely incapable of playing the game due to rampant eye strain issues caused by the graphical update. We need a response of some kind.

https://i.imgur.com/7tDWrRN.png

mine doesn't say "Unable to select [World] as a destination for Return to Home World requests at this time"... what is error code 3309? I can travel between any other two servers in Aether ok just not return to Gilgamesh...

I am unable return to my Home Data Center, which is Crystal. I keep getting and error that we cannot be transferred at this time. Seems like I am stuck on another data center until the congestion goes away. My poor crops in my FC house . . . I just hope I can get to my FC house before the time out happen, so I don't lose it. If I lose it, someone is going to have a bad day, lol.