The character creation restriction is bad, bad, bad.

[Tenshinohana]

I'm having a lot of problems with recruiting friends to FFXIV. It's a really disheartening, when you try to get a friend to play; with no cross-server action, they of course want to come on the server. But then! The character restrictions kick in and they can't come on the server, and have to wait over five hours (after a two hour download)!

There should be better ways to restrict character creation than this restriction, that puts a total wall for people up. The fact that there is this chracater creation exists, some of my friends just blatantly rage quit and I can't convince them that it's worth the wait.

This has happened to me at least three times right now, one raged and created the character on another server and then transferred it to my server (extra 30€ paid...)

I genuinely think FFXIV would benefit of a different character creation restriction system. This system has it's benefits, but for players, new players to be exact, it has more disadvantages than advantages.

[sraberry]

There is not a lot that can be done when some of the servers everyone plays on are already filled beyond what was intended. If they always kept character creation open, even after the world is full, the world wouldn't run as smoothly as intended. It would keep the lower population servers even lower as well, which is something that isn't ideal for those of us on one.

I agree that a different system could be put into place, but I am not sure what type of system could be put in place instead, since this is a system many other MMO's put in place as well.

[Twilite]

Blame Balmung and Gilgamesh :P

[Alahra]

There should honestly probably be some kind of World Pass system, like FFXI had originally. Initially on that game, you couldn't pick a specific server unless someone gave you a special code (retrieved from an NPC, I think, but it's been a very long time), which would then direct your character to their server at creation.

They could do something similar here and allow someone to give a code to a friend or something, so they can bypass the restriction.

[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.

[Twilite]

Someone once said they couldn't transfer because it was full.

[Mycow8me]

They could make a waiting list, I don't know how much effort that would involve though or if its even worth it.

[Twilite]

The problem is thier "windows" are so small, it's not worth trying to get on a heavy server. As soon as the window opens, it closes soon after. Your best chance is usually after maintenance.