Hello after a pretty long hiatus I have decided to come back to FFXIV and I have brought 5 friends with me.

They all downloaded the game yesterday and since then have been trying to create a character on Ragnorak as me and a few other friends already have characters there but the server is always down for new character creation so far everytime they have been able to get online. Is there any way around this so they can join us? It's not really setting the best first impression for them.

If I give them recruit a friend code will that save them a slot on Ragnorak? I just don't know what else to tell them at the min apart from keep trying but it doesn't seem very good to a new player trying to join a friend having to go through all this over the last 2 days.

Anyone have any ideas.