I couldn't agree more. I spent MONTHS trying to convince my friend to play FFXIV instead of WoW. Now that she is willing to do the free trial, she can't even make a character on the world me and our other real life friends play. And she will not be wasting money to transfer a character, especially when she doesn't even know if she likes the game because SHE CAN'T PLAY YET. And even now I can't even log in myself. Right now, they are losing a future subscriber and person who throws money around for mounts and other cool things.

Something needs to be done. Seeing there is a recruit a friend campaign going on right now, why would you make it so they can't even play with the person who recruited them? Its unacceptable. Seeing how the amount of players they have is growing quickly, you would think they would try to accommodate for it. Even when I played WoW, I never had this problem. They need to fix this, because they're missing out on a lot of money.