When will NA get more shards?

[Doozer]

This isn't about me. It isn't about "packed servers". This is about new players being unable to make a character anywhere. Why do you think this is acceptable practice? Why do you think it's okay for JP to have so many more servers with the same, or even slightly smaller, player base?

You're getting really mad when it not only doesn't affect you, but is easily remedied. The servers aren't full, they're just under strain right now from increased traffic. And if new people want to play so bad, they can make their characters at non-peak times. Wake up early before work or school, load in the saved character appearance data, pick a server, start it, then just shut the game off. It'll skip the opening cutscene and you'll be able to start playing for real later.

[Conando]

I’m pretty sure this is just a measure to prevent severe congestion right now. Stormblood’s launch was no fun for anyone. Also they DID create more worlds.

[Hyperia]

As it stands now, this is a very bad problem for new customers unless they have some code that will still place them somewhere if they are a first time player. Hopefully they have something like this, otherwise, this is not good.

[Nims]

They really should. My friend just got the game and can’t make a char and guess what? His time is ticking down.

You shouldn’t have to wake up at odd hours to create a character on a p2p game.

[Hasrat]

I’m pretty sure this is just a measure to prevent severe congestion right now. Stormblood’s launch was no fun for anyone. Also they DID create more worlds.

Only for EU. For NA, servers just got shuffled into the new data center.

I do agree that it'll likely die down in a few days. I also agree that it's probably more limited than it may have been previously, to prevent the problems of previous launches. And, while it's understandable to not want to dedicate resources to alleviating this temporary problem if the stable population is considerably less, it does remain sensible to have servers that are reasonably open in each region. Even at this hour, late night Eastern, late evening Pacific, there's only 4 such worlds available on Crystal.

The new data center is great. Shuffling servers, maybe the limiting capacity, it's all gone pretty well, this launch has been remarkably smooth. But they do also kinda need some new player capacity during an expansion launch like this. And while "try during dead hours" might work for some, it can also be expected that for others, it will mean not finding any opportunity to get into the game if they aren't available during those hours.

[MistakeNot]

As I said in another thread, SE seems reluctant to add servers until ALL the servers in a geographic data center have fairly high populations.
So don't expect more NA servers until the last few low-populated NA servers get filled up.

[Doozer]

Here you go, OP. A bunch of servers are available for character creation as of right now, at ~1:50am MDT. Tell your friends, or whoever it is you're upset on behalf of:

[JunseiKei]

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Probably never. There's congestion now, but unless the congestion stays, it makes no sense to increase server cost for a temporary problem. FFXIV has ever been friendly to the fair weather player-base; by now, you'd think people would be used to the large influx of players that just never come back until it's expansion time again.

[Iscah]

For the record, the "shards" terminology for different worlds/dimensions is only for within the game. Not for the different identical server-worlds on a data centre.

(Or if it makes it easier to picture, each server "world" has its own set of shards.)

[Kirsten_Rev]

You're getting really mad when it not only doesn't affect you, but is easily remedied. The servers aren't full, they're just under strain right now from increased traffic. And if new people want to play so bad, they can make their characters at non-peak times. Wake up early before work or school, load in the saved character appearance data, pick a server, start it, then just shut the game off. It'll skip the opening cutscene and you'll be able to start playing for real later.

It's even more easily remedied from SE's end.

After all, it is utterly ridiculous to have time-sensitive restrictions for character creation. I mean, does SE think that by allowing people to create a character at 3am, that same character won't log on during prime time? Warn people about congestion, lock the server completely if it is truly maxed out, and other than that, step back and let people fend for themselves. All that time-sensitive locking does is anger people for absolutely no good reason.