Please Update Server Status - Way Too Many "Congested" NA Servers

[Mhaeric]

They tend to update the preferred, standard, congested classification near the first week of every month usually around the 5th to the 10th. There was a long time from April to August when they didn't, however, so it's not a guarantee and not every world changes classification when they do make changes. They always post a news article on the lodestone titled "Regarding Changes in Congested/Preferred Worlds" whenever they change them. This is the most recent one from Sept 8, so it'll be at least 2 weeks before it might change again:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0430f5b02303e3

The character creation allowed status gets updated multiple times a day based on current server data and never gets announced. The only thing you will know for sure about this status is that worlds that are classified as congested will never allow character creation.