Please Lock Character Creation On Major Servers

[Jojoya]

How do you define what is a major server?

Assuming Lucky Bancho's April census is fairly accurate, 7 out of the top 12 worlds for active population over level 60 are all Crystal. Excalibur is down at #23.

I don't think locking the "major servers" is going to do you much good when you're not a major server by population, nor are most of the other servers in your data center.

Besides, SE already locks worlds to character creation based on current congestion. That status gets updated fairly frequently during prime time, less often during off peak hours. On Sunday, locks were being updated every 10 minutes from what I could see as my Aether friends were venting their frustration in Discord.

My wait has been about max 5 minutes. However, those that NORMALLY play on Cactuar before a big streamer started playing on there most likely had no wait time at all. Now. I hear the log in is around 2k wait. On top of that, people that were playing on that server legit at the time were "Randomly" kicked off the server, only to be met with the queue of 2k upon trying to log back in.

Five minutes is nothing for a popular MMO. You learn to log in, get your character in queue then step away to get a drink, use the bathroom etc. while your character slowly makes its way to the top of the list. It's a joke in my FC about how most of us tend to select our character for log in then walk away while we're stuck on queue.

If Cactuar normally has no wait time, it's a darn lucky world. I can't remember the last time I did not have a wait time to log in between 7am and 11pm Pacific.

I'd agree that the current situation on Aether worlds is pretty messy (I know a few players with mains on Aether worlds that had to settle for playing their Crystal alts on Sunday) but we don't know the long term impact. Outside of your world visit breaking down on Sunday, it sounds like even with the streamer who doesn't need to be named Aether is no worse off now than Crystal has been most of the expansion.