All of Aether closed down

[Akinnae]

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

[Diggles]

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

If you were making a new one you would have had to level something else to 60 first anyways... unlocks are per-character, not server. If you really want to make a new one, the buff from making a character on one of the preferred realms can get you to 60 in a few days. Aside from that, Fantasia is cheap.

[Bixillarla]

So I have been playing on Adamantoise for a long time. My husband and I just got SHB, and I was excited to make a Viera dancer. But I can’t! And I can’t make one on a different world either, since you have to have a level 70 character in order to unlock the quest. This is extremely frustrating.

Making a new character you would be locked out of dancer until you leveled that character. Unlocks are per character not per server.

[FoxyAreku]

All of aether is up right now.

Well, except gilgamesh and cactuar.

[Tsukino]

I blame the world visit system for this. I don't think Adamantoise is suddenly popular so much as people now have a way to play on Gilgamesh despite years of SE telling them to not all congregate on one world.

[Nedkel]

Thank God i am playing on Zodiark and not some crazy populated server.

[wereotter]

Cactuar was already one of the highest popluation servers on the new data center, so that server showing congested isn't terribly surprising.... but the whole data center is a frustration. I'm in your same boat. I have a friend who wanted to start playing the game, and I hated to disappoint him and tell him that because of how the servers are currently, he and I can't play together.

[Ferth]

I feel like this is a bigger problem than SE is giving it credit for. Their current solution of "hope people move to crystal" isn't working and if they are working on a better solution, they are taking too long. Now with the advent of cross-server play it seems like it should be more about at least creating scenarios where people can play together, even if it's not on the same actual server.

I also dislike how they don't differentiate between accounts that already have characters on a given server. If my main character is on Hyperion why can't i create a new character also on Hyperion? It's not like that is going to contribute to server congestion... I can't play two at once, this is a needless restriction.

[grinkdaboy]

it was done as a measure to make sure currently subbed people could play. every day since early access there has been a queue to log-in. now it's usually only about 15-20 people, but without the lock-out, i could see it just as easily being 150-200 people instead.

[Vrankyl]

Unfortunately this is a problem created by the player base itself and there isn't much SE can do aside from keeping those servers locked until the population stabilizes. There's no point in creating new servers when there are plenty of preferred servers on a NA based Data Center so they aren't going to do it unless Primal and Crystal also start getting to the state that Aether is in. The Raiders whipped themselves up into a fear induced frenzy and piled onto Aether like a bunch of rats fleeing a sinking ship and this is the price to pay for that.