I'm just returning to FFXIV after a bit of a hiatus and with me, I'm bringing an entire group of people I've been playing with in other games. I've already been established on Balmung for ages, as I'm a 1.0 player but many of them are new to Balmung.

I've noticed that, shockingly, the character creation lockouts are still in effect. I'm wondering if these really ever change? He's in California, so he's operating on PDT and every day he gets up to make his character and the server is already locked by then.

Is there a sweet point that he can log in and create this darn thing? Do they ever unlock the servers during the day at all, because I've never seen them reopen during the day. It's becoming rather disheartening that I can't get some of these people into the game with the rest of us (of which there are quite a few, so it's not like we can pick up and move, plus we're all RP'ers and this is where most of the RP seems to be).

Any thoughts on this? Any end in sight?