Servers Locked Again..!!

[WiseWolfHolo]

I suggested this game to friends, at which they begrudgingly accepted to even try, but now that we cannot be on the same server they are not even giving this game the chance, just because of being forced onto a legacy server. Believe it or not, even most of the players from my 1.0 LS have yet to play and or are even not going to play because their friends cannot get onto the same server and for them to start over is just too redundant. So SE please allow more players to either get on our server or let us legacy members choose our server without restriction.

[Bustercucumbers]

The only solution to this is time for server populations to stabilize, but you guys all want your game now so Yoshi-P can't do nothing but chain smoke.

Or maybe they could use the que system which they already have in place for some reason. Why is there a que system if they said they have locked the servers to prevent performance problems? I am willing to wait in a que if it means all my friends can play with me. Seriously what is SE thinking? They are just starting to show the same characteristics that led them to disaster at 1.0 launch. It always feels like the person making all the decisions is an outside person that has zero experience with video games.

[Sarvoth]

Guys, for those who are asking for communication..... go here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...95#post1054695

The maximum expected population limit is nearing for each World, and unless the current World simultaneous connection amount decreases, we are unable to open release the limitation.

In case we do release the limitation, there is a high chance that the corresponding World will crash or cause issues, and we are thinking that it will be difficult for us to release it for a while. We please ask you to consider playing in a World that has a low limitation.

Basically, you are screwed essentially. Now, that they told us this information, we must now implore them to give us new servers with FREE server transfer for guilds. PERIOD. Demand it.

[fryiee]

Let's say you are SE: your servers have capacity limits. When they are reached, you have no choice but to "lock" the server so people already playing are not affected by the hoards of new players trying to get in. You understand that some of those new players could very well be trying to join their friends already in, but you have no choice.

The only solution to this is time for server populations to stabilize, but you guys all want your game now so Yoshi-P can't do nothing but chain smoke.

Except they have this wonderful thing in MMO architecture (and even this one) called queueing. They should use it. Apparently Behemoth is 'full', yet I only have a 25 person queue to get on there.

[Mcslammer]

It's unreal. I have 6 friends that I would really like to play with and they can't create a char on my server. The same exact thing happened when they merged servers back in 1.0 anyone remember? They lost subscribers because they couldn't do one thing that you would never expect to be an issue in any massive multiplayer game - playing with friends.

I totally agree that waiting in an hour long queue makes total sense when a server is super congested, especially at launch - totally would understand. But Locking the server??? c'mon.

[Dreamer]

These forums are so atrocious. But so entertaining. /popcorn

[fryiee]

These forums are so atrocious. But so entertaining. /popcorn

"Any legitimate criticism is bad. *fingers in ears* La la la la la."

Seriously, the level of fanboyism is worse than the Blizz forums.

[Nexxa]

I imagine if they'd disconnect the jerks sitting idle doing nothing while they sleep we'd be a lot better off. A 15 minute idle-kick would likely do wonders.

[Averia]

Likewise, I'm in the unfortunate position of already being on one server that's character locked, joining a couple of friends that I met during beta. And with more friends unable to create characters on Leviathan, I will probably have to abandon my character and remake. Here's to hoping that Adamantoise doesn't get the character creation lock as well. -_-

[Kahlyn]

If I were given the option to transfer my character to a low-population server, I would do so immediately. Short of that, it's about 96 hours of playable game too late to be asking people to not use certain servers.