The character creation restriction is bad, bad, bad.

[Pence]

If you can't understand why there is a restriction in place than I don't think there's much hope for you. It's crazy obvious why it exists.

[Eidolon]

If you can't understand why there is a restriction in place than I don't think there's much hope for you. It's crazy obvious why it exists.

Why doesn't it exist on SErver transfers then?

[Alahra]

Why doesn't it exist on SErver transfers then?

Presumably because they considered the additional barrier of the cost of transferring is enough of a deterrent to keep enough people on lower-population worlds. Granted, I don't think that's necessarily true anymore because of the heavy migrations to Balmung and Gilgamesh for NA players since the release of Heavensward. But that slowly seems to be righting itself, at least on some servers. Diabolos is back to being creation capped and it hadn't been for awhile.

[Tenshinohana]

If you can't understand why there is a restriction in place than I don't think there's much hope for you. It's crazy obvious why it exists.

The thing is, I am not questioning _why_ there are server restrictions. I am questioning _how_ it's done. Blocking people isn't really a good way to restrict it really. There could be a system where you could bypass a restriction with a refer a friend -code. Or perhaps have the same system that WoW has; just state a list of servers and how full they are, and if you still choose a full server and then complain about the waiting on the server, shrug and say "You chose a full server, not really our fault". Which IMO is a better system than just plainly blocking them so that nobody can access it except for waiting.

[Pence]

Or perhaps have the same system that WoW has; just state a list of servers and how full they are, and if you still choose a full server and then complain about the waiting on the server, shrug and say "You chose a full server, not really our fault". Which IMO is a better system than just plainly blocking them so that nobody can access it except for waiting.

What's the difference? Being able to visually see it's full prior to character creation? SE does provide a list of full servers and is updated periodically. It's not hard to find out the population and lock outs of a world. Everyone keeps coming to Balmung, then complaining their friends can't get in and it 'ruins the game' for them. Move to a new server. Problem solved. Patch/Expansion comes around and these same people that ignored the 'full' server warnings are the ones crying about queues. It's redic in a game this reliant on DF.