They need to update the servers that are still restricting new characters being created more often than once every 4 hours. I've had the list say a server was allowing new characters, but only to log onto the game, make a new character and the server I wanted to make on wasn't accepting new characters.

Balmung isn't the only server that's nigh perpetually closed. A fair number of NA servers, not just all of the NA Legacy servers, are frequently closed. The Japanese world servers rarely have this problem (at least according to the list).

There are a couple of people that I would love to RAF, but if they can't make a character on Behemoth or Leviathan there is no point in me even mentioning FFXIV to them.