All of Aether closed down

[Hitoshura]

Welp, Aether has opened up! As I figured, the servers weren't anywhere near as congested as everyone was trying to make them out to be. Glad that I can finally play this online game with my friend!

[LalaRu]

...A whole data center being closed down sounds like a very bad idea, I'm sure he is not the only one who has people to play with, and he can't even play "half-off" by going to another server, he would have to go to a different data center entirely and give up on basically everything about playing together...

It was a momentary peak in peak hours of the peak day of the week. In this very moment I write, 6 of 8 worlds in your Datacenter are open to create characters. Overreacting a bit?

[Hitoshura]

It was a momentary peak in peak hours of the peak day of the week. In this very moment I write, 6 of 8 worlds in your Datacenter are open to create characters. Overreacting a bit?

That is only the case as of this morning. Since the end of June, all servers on Aether were manually locked and no characters could be created on them whatsoever. Not an overreaction in the slightest.

[Aladire]

My belief is that crystal was the lowest population and SE wanted new players to go there first. So, they locked down the other DC since they kept the higher populated servers there minus Balmung.

Now that people are back to working and not taking time off and most have started to complete the MSQ, they are undoing the manual status. As I thought, my server really wasn't congested because I only ever saw a queue of about 120ish at about 7pm CDT.

[IzzyData]

How come they don't offer free transfers off of Aether if it is this congested?

[Aladire]

How come they don't offer free transfers off of Aether if it is this congested?

Actually, when I was logging in all last week, I kept getting a notice for free transfer off my server. Now that the status has changed, I no longer get that.

[FoxyAreku]

All of aether is up right now.

Well, except gilgamesh and cactuar.

[Nixxe]

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

[IzzyData]

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

I tried just last week and it would let me transfer a character off of Aether. I'll try again later today.

[Hitoshura]

Leaving the data center open, creating a bad time for the people who were already there, is an even worse idea. There are free transfers with extra perks being offered to get people off of Aether at the moment. You could always look into one of those.

Welp, Aether is open now, so thankfully people can actually create characters on it. I don't think anyone will be getting free transfers at the moment, because it's only for Congested -> New or Congested -> Preferred.

I tried just last week and it would let me transfer a character off of Aether. I'll try again later today.

While you can transfer your character from an Aether server to another server that is not Congested, it will no longer be free, since both your Current Server needs to be Congested and your Target Server needs to be New or Preferred, and there are currently no servers that are New or Preferred in NA.