Not enough Server Capacity. You need more!

[xxvaynxx]

I am sure SE is embarassed when they put your cash in their vault.

Lmao! Rekt xD

[Katie_Kitty]

Can't make any new characters at all on any NA world....

Still waiting to remake a character on Aether after 5 days of it being totally closed

Don't count on joining aether any time soon. Use Crystal.

[savageink]

haven't had to wait more than 5 minutes since pre-launch. Guess staying on Mal after the move was the right choice.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I think the only thing they can particularly do is add more new servers, and try to convince people to move to them.

[zylo1010]

I actually moved from siren (aether) to goblin (crystal) because I got my daughter an account and she hasn't been able to make a character to play with me since she got the account. I watched the status for a few days before choosing goblin because it was a preferred realm with the lowest (still able to make a character) population. Now I transfer and goblin is closed off for her too......

[RareItems]

No queue here on Balmung xD.

[NekoNova]

hit 1200+ yesterday on Ragnarok.
Took me about 20 minutes to get in.
It's not that bad as people make it out, and the queues will die down once the launch hype is over.

[MistakeNot]

SE seems very reluctant to add more servers while there is still underused servers in any of the geographical datacenters (NA, EU, JP).
They have added new servers to the EU datacenter twice now, but each time it happened ALL of the EU servers had a fairly high population.
While several of the NA servers are overpopulated right now, there are a couple of them with a fairly low population. I suspect SE is waiting for those to fill up before adding more NA servers.
They very clearly want us players to do our part in spreading out somewhat evenly among the available servers rather than all bunching up on the most popular ones.