Excalibur has been closed since launch..Please help!

This thread is a mixture of a plea and a way to vent a bit of steam.

I played 14 during 1.0, and we started off on a server named palmora (sp?) through server merges we eventually ended up on Excalibur. Fast forward to the launch of ARR, and Now we have an issue where quite a few members of our guild (who is originally from FFXI) were unable to create a character because the realm was closed. One of those people happens to be my wife, a person I tried daily to talk in to playing the game during the period that I played 1.0. She refused because she thought she didn't have the time to get mixed up in another mmo. Finally, she agreed because she was missing our old friends from 11. SO, I bought her a copy of the game. During beta she had install issues and then issues with launching the game, once those were worked out the early access was nearly finished. Client issues knocked her out of the rest of early access. (continued below)

On launch day she got to create her character. However, our server, Excalibur was closed. We figured it would open in a few hours and all we had to do was be patient. A few hours turned into a day.. and then two days.. three days.. a week.. and now here we are almost 10 days after release and Excalibur is still closed to new characters.

I went through all the effort to get her to play, and she got exited to do so. Now that excitement has turned into anger because of the whole server lock thing. Without being able to play with friends, there really is no reason for her to play the game, and rightly so. Furthermore, I am unable to play much because it is infuriating to sit and watch someone do what you want to but can't.

For 10 days, I have sat and constantly refreshed the server list every 3 minutes, hoping to see our server unlocked. The posts they make about server closures is not helpful, as I have seen many times a server unlock when it was posted as closed on these posts. I've tried every way possible except the forums to contact square about it as well. The email support never responds, the phone number always gives a busy signal (not even a voice message) and there is no way to contact anyone through the game about issues other than harassment, bugs, exploits, or "i'm stuck".

After living through the 3102 hell, missing out on all of early access myself (I played 45 minutes, and that wasn't even continuous) and now spending all of my free time refreshing a server list, a lot of angst is beginning to jade my perception of the game. Compound that with the fact that I cannot play the game with my wife, and the additional frustration of being able to seemingly do nothing to solve the issue, it is just not worth it. I can understand being affected by one or two issues, I understand crazy high amounts of logins, wanting over all server stability, not having a crystal ball to predict the issues before they happen, I understand this. But when you are hit with every single issue that has affected other players, and then continue to be affected by a controlled perpetual lock out.. well, there comes a point when I can no longer sit back and "be patient".

I am making this post in the astronomically high chance that someone with some kind of insight or pull somewhere can do or say something to make this entire nightmarish process easier on us (me).

My wife and I do not want free time or some crazy demand. all we simply want is for her to be able to roll on to Excalibur server. Just open it for 5 minutes, hell, 30 seconds. or process a request internally. for the sake of Jesus Herold Christ, do something that can end the insanity that is us trying to enjoy this game and constantly being slapped with denials.

you could always roll a new character with her on a different server to play. thats what i did for my girlfriend. considering that most boss fights and a lot of main story quest battles are capped also. you will oth be up to 50 after 1-3 weeks most likely anyway. a week so far to hit 21 and only play like an hour or two a day

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Originally Posted by Sephyder

you could always roll a new character with her on a different server to play. thats what i did for my girlfriend. considering that most boss fights and a lot of main story quest battles are capped also. you will oth be up to 50 after 1-3 weeks most likely anyway. a week so far to hit 21 and only play like an hour or two a day

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This should not be a required solution. Especially when it comes to 1.0 players. What's the point of carrying over the 1.0 data if we have to start over if we want any chance of playing with our friends?

This server has never been removed from the character creation restriction list since restrictions have started. I have friends that will not play the game until they can join us on our server. I've gotten to the point where I'm tired of logging in to be reminded I can't play with them.

Worst off, no one has even attempted to provide an estimate on when these restrictions may be lifted.

I know just how you feel, my son can't get on Excalibur, and my FC is on there, I have been in their guild for over 2 years. So I have a choice of roll on another server and play alongside my son, or stay with my guild and friends. However, you must remember that you are not the only people in this position and wanting them to make an exception for your wife by someone pulling some strings and opening it up for her is not going to happen and wouldn't be fair anyway.

What I am probably going to do is roll a new character on another server to play with my son. Hopefully sometime down the road in the next few months we might be allowed to transfer there, but what I am not going to do is sit around refusing to play the game because I can't play with my friends. It is better to play and have fun, and then by the time transfers to the high population servers are allowed you will both at least be at similar levels to your friends when you join them.

My wife and I are stuck in this issue too, our son wants to play with us but can't create a character on excalibur, both my wife and I have legacy characters and we are not keen on starting over and loosing all the friends we've made over the last few years.

I am experiencing the exact same issue on Hyperion. Worse, I lead our 60+ member free company. I can't ditch them just to create a fresh character on a new world with my wife for a few weeks. It would be nice if she could create a character on Hyperion and it was just marked as "Pending". Then, once the world is opened and her character is approved to be created, it would be nice to receive some sort of auto-mail informing us that her character is ready.

In the meantime, while we wait for the server to finally open, her playtime is ticking down despite not having any active characters.

Going to sound mean but if you can't leave behind your old characters to play with your loved ones because the servers is locked then tell them to create a new character on another server and that you'll join up with them when they offer free transfers. Very cold. Yes it's not fair that you are being made to make that choice but that some of you are even having issues trying to decide if you should play with family is mind blowing.

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Originally Posted by Silversnow

Going to sound mean but if you can't leave behind your old characters to play with your loved ones because the servers is locked then tell them to create a new character on another server and that you'll join up with them when they offer free transfers. Very cold. Yes it's not fair that you are being made to make that choice but that some of you are even having issues trying to decide if you should play with family is mind blowing.

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The main point of this is the very fact that we are being forced to make this choice. Which you conveniently skim over to press the insult you are attempting to make.

Here's the example I'm in. I have a 1.0 character. A co-worker is a legacy player. Told me him and his friends were going to Excalibur. So I said great! I'll make sure my character is there too. I managed to get 2 friends interested during Beta 4 and both of them started characters on Excalibur as well. Though we all had a hell of a time logging in. Now, after character creation restrictions are put in place I have 2 more friends that want to play, but they can't make characters on my server. One of them doesn't really want to play if she can't play with friends. Co-worker has a number of friends on the server from 1.0, I wouldn't want to ask him to leave them and his legacy character to start on a new server. One of the other two friends that are on the server does not want to have to start on another server.

So I have a decision of leaving one group of friends to play with another or stay where I am and abandon the two that only put out money for the game because I asked them to play? That sure must be a simple decision for you, right? After all, it must be our fault since we have issues deciding.

Just throwing it out there... Excalibur was unlocked for character creation for a few hours early yesterday (made my wife's toon for her)

But really ... If you won't play on a different realm with her it's time to re-evaluate your priorities... Lucky-ish mine is still more interested in wow lol

While I'm not directly affected by the issue, I certainly empathize with those affected by it. What they are doing is kind of crazy, locking servers for character creation & not allowing it after the big emergency fix, knowing that it stops friends & family from being together. Do they not realize how angry this is making people, & how it makes lots of people just give up hope on the game? I think you ought to make a char on a new server with your wife though. Consider it an alt & play with her, then you can also play on Excalibur if she isn't playing with you. Someday they'll realize that they need to allow free server transfers (I hope) & then on that day she can transfer to the other server, or worst case she pays for it.

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Originally Posted by Silversnow

Going to sound mean but if you can't leave behind your old characters to play with your loved ones because the servers is locked then tell them to create a new character on another server and that you'll join up with them when they offer free transfers. Very cold. Yes it's not fair that you are being made to make that choice but that some of you are even having issues trying to decide if you should play with family is mind blowing.

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I can say in our defense that we haven't even bought him a copy yet, if it came down to it we'd create characters to play with him during the limited times he'd be able to play. The point is more that it's annoying that we have to make that decision and can't simply create a character for him on our current server.

hyperion is no better op, closed 99% of the time, very sad scenario awaiting friends or heck even to make an alt is impossible. we are alotted 8characters/server, would be nice to get 2/8 even. err its not like i can play more then 1 at a time anyway Oo

they do need to open all these worlds soon, been a long wait already imo.

they have done a great job recently getting some things on the mend :oD

....just let ppl have a chance pls to add characters for an advanced notice time too so everyone has a chance to add em, not a random opening at 3am- 320 am on the fly when 3/4 of the server is asleep :oD

Add me to the list.

I'm going through the same thing but with my husband. I finally convinced him to give it a try again (he was very jaded by 1.0) but now he can't even play with me and I'm on Siren. I hope he can stay patient long enough for Siren to open up to new character creation but he's a man and we know how that goes! lol