New Character Creation

[Inoxe]

I am completely unable to make characters on the NA RP servers (Balmung and Gilgamesh, per http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/ ), and have nothing but one random test character from the betas on a server where I have no friends. My job keeps me busy enough that I'm not making a career out of trying to get a character spot on a server where friends are.

SE made exactly this same mistake in the original FFXIV launch. I remember the same frustration. They have learned ZERO from past mistakes when it comes to server provisioning and operation. I realize their company has had layoffs, is under new management, and is no doubt is short of funds. But really, too cheap to even TEMPORARILY LEASE enough backup hardware for contingencies? That's a newbie mistake from 1999 (when EQ and AO launched without sufficient hardware or backups, and no uiser-friendly software solutions for overflows).

Frankly, I'm giving up and going on to other games for now. There are plenty of other great MMORPGs out there in beta, and plenty others that have moved into F2P and worth a second try WAY before this game, which just takes your money and delivers nothing but frustration. Maybe I'll come back when SE gets their server operations together, maybe I won't. I've just "had it" with their ineptitude.

[Corwin1407]

Dear Square Enix,

The list that you have created on the lodestone to tell players which servers are closed to new toons is utterly useless.

Phoenix is apparently open according to the list but not when I try to create a new character to try out.

I already have toon on that server where I play with friends so I cannot understand how limiting peoples ability to create extra toons on a server they already play on impacts on that server. As far as I am aware I can't play two characters at once.

Telling me to create a new toon on a different server is plainly stupid as I play mmo's with my friends. If I wanted to play alone I can pick any number of alternative games.

Please get this sorted the constant issues are becoming a bore and bored players go elsewhere with their money.

[Izayashi]

Not only can I not currently make a character on my friends server but all EU servers are currently locked.

Not the greatest first impression for me and my friends.

[aznxk3vi17]

HILARIOUS

[Akamitsuki]

would it really be so hard to implament a queue when trying to make a character on a new server? because paying for this game and not being able to play with my friends is a joke.

getting really close to uninstalling and playing something else, cause all this is doing is wasting space on my computer.

[Cikala]

I'm still amazed that this is even occurring. I have never seen an MMO lock out people from creating a character on a server that is otherwise running and playable. Add to that the fact that some of these servers haven't been unlocked at all in days, and the situation is terrible. I imagine a lot of players are simply leaving over this, which is bad news for the overall longevity of the game.

[Himea]

I'm glad I found this thread under the "Being Addressed" sub-group, but the fact that this is still happening is bothersome.

I have been trying to play on Ultros with my friends for almost two weeks. The server was locked out by the time Early Access was finished, and everyone I regularly play with had gotten to start during the Early Access. I made the mistake of waiting to get the game until a later date, so of course I couldn't even buy it until last Tuesday. This was the date we were all promised improvements would be made to the service.

72 hours later, Ultros is still locked from character creation. I put in a ticket asking for an ETA on when it would be available so I wouldn't have to just sit there in game refreshing the world list over and over again. The response I got linked me to the forum describing the details of the server improvement that already happened three days ago. It's especially annoying that most of the other world's come up by 11 pm, except for these same six servers. Is the population really that heavy?

I'm a patient person, I don't mind waiting to play. I would like to play soon, but all I would really like is an estimated time on which these realms will be available. I know shit happens, and good things become highly desired, but it really can't be that hard or expensive to rent some additional servers and increase world capacity.

[Mooch]

I'm still amazed that this is even occurring. I have never seen an MMO lock out people from creating a character on a server that is otherwise running and playable. Add to that the fact that some of these servers haven't been unlocked at all in days, and the situation is terrible. I imagine a lot of players are simply leaving over this, which is bad news for the overall longevity of the game.

I don't think Hyperion has been unlocked since the game went live.

[Arathos]

I don't think Hyperion has been unlocked since the game went live.

My understanding is that the bottom 7 or so servers have been on and off in the first couple of weeks but no one has seen them open even for a minute in the last 3 or 4 days.

[Marinen]

Behemoth is one of the perma locked since launch