Excalibur still locked !?!?!?!?

[Xenor]

The biggest problem was not adding more legacy servers when the legacy server transfers took place. Early last year servers were merged together based on a population count of active players. So when you give all those inactive players a free ticket into ARR you've got two server loads of people trying to cram on to one, plus any others who transferred in. Server splits are the only real way to get around the issue. Open up a few new legacy servers and allow free transfers from over populated servers to the new servers. This happened in the early days of XI.

[Suellen]

@Whoever said Blizzard still had caps: Yeah, they did, However they NEVER implemented Character Creation Restriction.

Sorry but I have to stop you there because your statement is utterly false. There were a handful of servers that had character creation blocked during the Vanilla/BC days. You probably didn't notice cause it was 2 servers out of a kajillion or you didn't play the game back then.

Yoshi P. has stated a thousand times now that he underestimated the population surge that this launch ended up having. They are dealing with it the best they can. We need to show some patience. Even the best MMOs have a retention rate of like 30% these days. Most of the kiddies won't be logging on a month from now and we'll have transfers then.

Tell your friends to start a toon on a server of their choice and transfer later or just wait it out and play another game in the mean time.

[Mycow8me]

I would gladly migrate away from Excalibur in the first place. Had I known this server would be overrun by 1.0 transfers, I wouldn't have even moved my 1.0 char there. I doubt SE will allow free transfers from overcrowded worlds but they might open world transfers before the originally scheduled date since its such a problem.

[indira]

do what everything else on earth does. if you have capacity for 100 you dont allow 1000. once you hit that 100 you stop letting things in. they did it in 1.0 they lock out the server once capacity was hit even showed how full a server was.

[Loser1337]

It's funny how all you Final Fantasy FAN BOYS brush this problem off, but this is the first time in ANY MMO Release or not that I couldn't get onto the server my friends are on. It's really just crap we have to go to whatever random server SE Tells us to. If this isn't fixed, and soon this game is gonna go down the toilet just like it's 1.0 counterpart.

Seriously considering not even playing this game if I have to freaking PAY to transfer my toon there when I should've been able to make him on the server in the first place. It's totally unfair. I don't wanna play with a bunch of people I DON'T KNOW! This is by far the worst MMO release I have ever experienced. Is there a way we can return this game digitally?

[Aquidar]

I definitely don't understand this at this point, if they are going to continue to block character creation they definitely need Server Transfers now and to be free. I've brought 2 or 3 people to the game to play with me, but given all the character restriction limits it's at the point where we are all spread out.

I was giving SE the benefit of the doubt and figured they would get there things in order with the most recent update to equipment. That clearly was a missed mark.

They better have some kind of refund process, because this is becoming inexplicable. "We found the problem, we fixed the problem.. except for some servers.."

Anyone suggesting to give it time and go play another game why would they return to the current abomination? It pains me to say that too because gameplay is truely amazing, but without the systems to support a growing and vibrant playerbase they are relegating themselves to disaster.

[KoujiGeki]

well 6 of my my friends arent gonna play now cause they cant get excalibur. and im the asshole now making them buy the game.

[HiirNoivl]

Excalibur was full long before this.

[Azgarde]

Oh, every single JP server is now Character Creation Locked. Who believed last maintenance would actually do anything ?

[Warloc79]

Blizzard had at one time 12 million players and never restricted Character Creation.

exactly. SE IS FULL OF CRAP. Their world servers are GARBAGE.