SE: You are loosing potential customers

[Vispor]

This game is how old now and there are still restrictions on new character creation on servers? How about fixing this problem first, THEN working on services like recruit a friend. At least give me a code like in FFXI so my RL friends could be on my server.

[Zaft]

Some servers have a very high population. Excalibur nearly always has a (somewhat short) queue to get on. Allowing more people would just make it worse.

[LadyLarunai]

This game is how old now and there are still restrictions on new character creation on servers? How about fixing this problem first, THEN working on services like recruit a friend. At least give me a code like in FFXI so my RL friends could be on my server.

you could kick the players that afk for 16 hours and it probably would fix some issues

[Wobble]

you could kick the players that afk for 16 hours and it probably would fix some issues

Kicking the AFK people would do nothing, SE is the one that locks the server from making a new character not the people that are AFK.

[Ramien]

Kicking the AFK people would do nothing, SE is the one that locks the server from making a new character not the people that are AFK.

But the server locks for making new characters is based on how full the servers are and how many people are logged into them. So fewer AFKs clogging things up would give a better view of how full the servers are, and allow at least some easing of the restrictions.

[Gillionaire]

Kicking the AFK people would do nothing, SE is the one that locks the server from making a new character not the people that are AFK.

but.. but.. but....
people being logged on adds stress to the servers which is the source of the problem.

If you can't link the correlation between the two, well.. I dunno what to tell ya.

I agree, there needs to be something done about afk/dancers.

Before I went to sleep, just out of curiosity, I decided to do a /stepdance in Gridania.. When I woke up, my character was still logged on dancing away..

Imagine if 20 people did that in a populated spot, that's instant source of lag right there (Mor Dhona/Limsa anybody?)

[Alistaire]

Better than tightening them...I guess.

[kyuven]

Out of over 60 servers, only 18 of them are restricted. If you want to play with your friends THAT much, pick a new server.
SE wants crowded servers to be less crowded.
Now, if you want to complain about gold farmers and spammers occupying that space, that's fine. But this is a VERY popular game that is already pushing its hardware to its limits.
There's really not a lot you can do about the congestion except pick a server that isn't congested. The occupants of that server would welcome new friends to play with.

[MageBlack]

Arent they adding in EU servers that are actually physically located in EU? When they do that I'm sure there will be some free server transfers available.

There are also lower populated servers you could play on... All duty finder content is database wide anyway.

Funny how the popularity of the game is "killing the game" This should get added to that thread of many deaths of FFXIV.

[kyuven]

Funny how the popularity of the game is "killing the game" This should get added to that thread of many deaths of FFXIV.

I think it is. Twice. Once for when the game's release was so popular the game was nigh unplayable for 4 days, and once when they instituted the character creation restrictions in the first place.