Quote Originally Posted by Fayup View Post
Just noticed too. I'm pretty new to FFXIV and my wife just agreed to play with me. Got her all set up and all the servers are closed besides like 3-4 on crystal, feelsbad.
If they are not shown as congested the servers will/can accept new characters. Best time to try this is on a server early morning like 6AM EST. Character creation is also blocked when too many people are logged in and will free up when they go to sleep and leave the server.