New Character Creation

[Vinge]

So on twitter they said that so many servers had character creation restrictions and that they were not allowing anymore creations on them. I am curious if they are actually completely restricted until they are allowed or if the restriction is only as full. I guess my point is I don't wanna sit around waiting for an open spot if they are totally restricted but if there is just a chance I may get in at say 3:00 am I am willing to try all night. It seems some people say they get in. Anyone know if the restriction is only while the server is full? I really want to make a character on my friends server like everyone else does =*(

There are definitely a small number of servers where the restriction is being applied 24/7 at the moment, e.g. Moogle server in the EU. Which sucks because the only reason I bought this game is because I found out a bunch of my friends were playing, and that's the server they've been on since Early Access started. I'm sure there are some servers in NA where the situation is the same.

So it would be good to get some sort of indication as to how long these restrictions are likely to last. I'm not interested in playing this game if I can't join the people I know who are already playing it.

[Lisarayne]

Thanks for replying, that helps a lot. I am going to try in the early mornings hours then. But I have also started a new character somewhere else and if I can't get on I will just transfer once they open server transfers up. They said mid Sept so hopefully its next week. Good luck getting on the server with your friends!!!

[Vinge]

Based on spending much of the last week looking at the list of available servers myself and based on what others have posted, it looks like the restrictions are population based and so come and go throughout the day - e.g at peak times in both NA and EU all servers are locked to new characters, but as populations fall these are lifted on most servers.

But there seems to be a small group of servers where these restrictions never lift - at the moment this is the case for Moogle (EU), Ultros (NA) , Behemoth (NA), Cactuar (NA), Excalibur (NA) and Hyperion (NA). The only time in the last 4-5 days that I've seen these servers available was just after the downtime on Wednesday, when I guess that the populations were briefly low enough that the restrictions didn't kick in for a short time.

[Kazralar]

I came to the forums to say pretty much this.
I'd love to get an update as to when the servers will unlock, or if you could at least make them available to create characters on during low usage hours. It's a real joy killer when somebody convinces you to play a game with them, only to find out you can't actually play with them for a few weeks.

Edit: Well that was unexpected. Minutes after posting the server I was after unlocked, they most definitely DO unlock at certain times of the day.
Good luck all

[Lisarayne]

Bah!!! well the server i'm trying to get on is in fact Behemoth. I suppose I won't get on but i'm going to try! I hope everyone gets to join their friends...

[DanteMog]

Bah!!! well the server i'm trying to get on is in fact Behemoth. I suppose I won't get on but i'm going to try! I hope everyone gets to join their friends...

Same here i've been trying since before maintenance 24/7 on behemoth, its a pretty poor setup they have running here, first mmo where i cannot play with friends

[Akisu]

It's funny to me that SE doesn't take a page out of their own history books. Anyone remember world passes from FFXI? If you don't have one from a friend, it dumps you randomly onto a server that isn't packed full. If you did manage to get a world pass from a friend, you can play on the same server as them. Also, how about opening up some free voluntary server migrations to some worlds that just opened, or aren't packed absolutely full? I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to hop to a less crowded server that way.

[Lisarayne]

Im hoping that is what they will do... but in the mean time. Are you guys just waiting or are you leveling a character on another server? If we end up having to wait a week and theres free transfers we could be level 20 or 30 by then easy.. I dunno what to do..grrr

[Steelhart]

This is just so frustrating! I was up most of the night taking short cat naps between server checks, hoping and praying that Cactuar would open up. No dice.

I hate that I've been trying since I got the game at PAX to get into the server that my friend and brother play on, but cannot. And there's no telling WHEN server transfers are going to happen, so just playing this great Massively Multiplayer Online game just ends up being a single player one without your buddies.

Square Enix, I know that you are working hard to get things fixed and prepared for folks, but I would rather know that I have to wait in some sort of queue to log in than not know if this weekend is going to be spent doing the same thing. Waiting to see if I just might get to create a character.

[Chaneke]

I think this restrictions will be removed after they add more servers next week, YoshiP went to PAX, and there is an Interview in IGN where he says that next week a lot of servers would come, this week patch was to test how many ppl they could manage in one single server (thats why they only added 3 servers and they added 2500 more to the population per server). There is also another translated post that is in the forum, it says something about what are they planning to do this and the next week. I think I read it in general discussion the first thread.