Server Lockouts are limiting the growth of this game.

[Kaedan94]

They need to bring back the FFXI Friend Code as part of their recruitment campaign where getting the code from your friend gets you access to their otherwise locked server.

I agree with this. If you use the Recruit a Friend system, your friend should be able to make a character on your system regardless of character creation restrictions.


However, there is a way around it OP. Have your friend make a character on any server. Wait 3 days or solo for those 3 days. Then use the World Transfer service. It ignores restrictions.

What I don't get is how you can transfer to a locked server, but can't create a new character on one.

If the servers are being locked due to congestion and due to approaching hardware limitations, how come people can transfer to them?

If the servers are really being pushed to their limits, transfers to them should be disabled too O.o.

Because you have to pay money.

[Adire]

Because you have to pay money.

So they can bypass hardware limitations for people who have money? Interesting.

[sirDarts]

So they can bypass hardware limitations for people who have money? Interesting.

The amount of people wanting to play on a highly populated server, most of the time for no real reason: GIANT
The amount of people willing to pay money to play on a highly populated server, especially without a real reason: Close to none

Some odd hundred people added to Balmug or Excalibur won't crash it, thousands could. So yeah, it does make sense.


Actually the only issue the server limitation creates is for people who want to play with their actual friends.
But allowing people to get into a high populated server just because they use a reference code would just lead to abuse of the reference system.

[Adire]

The amount of people wanting to play on a highly populated server, most of the time for no real reason: GIANT
The amount of people willing to pay money to play on a highly populated server, especially without a real reason: Close to none

Some odd hundred people added to Balmug or Excalibur won't crash it, thousands could. So yeah, it does make sense.


Actually the only issue the server limitation creates is for people who want to play with their actual friends.
But allowing people to get into a high populated server just because they use a reference code would just lead to abuse of the reference system.

Sounds like a poor excuse to milk money from people. A one time per year transfer with a 1 character limit per account on overpopulated servers or some such would work equally as well.

Paying extra to play with friends and bypass limitations is quite distasteful. This archaic server structure is bad when a huge part of playing MMOs is playing with other people, like friends.

[Kaedan94]

So they can bypass hardware limitations for people who have money? Interesting.

Why do you think server caps are a hardware limitation? They are not. They are implemented so that queues don't get incredibly long.

If they didn't have server caps on several servers (like Balmung, for instance), the queue to log in would reach ridiculous levels. The servers can accept more characters no problem. The only limitation is number of concurrent players.

And paying for a world transfer gives them money which they can put towards improving servers.

[seida]

However, there is a way around it OP. Have your friend make a character on any server. Wait 3 days or solo for those 3 days. Then use the World Transfer service. It ignores restrictions.

I don't think this is actually true though, unless they changed it. When my friend wanted to transfer to Tonberry, it took a few days because Tonberry was unavailable in the transfer list, and she had to wait until it appeared.