Downside to being on Aether now

[Chawan]

You realize the lockdown is temporary right?

Pretty safe bet they'll be adding new servers to Aether in the not too distant future. The problem wasn't anticipated and is a direct result of the influx of players from WOW. DC travel is coming in October so that will help with friends who want to play together. Crystal and Primal are still available for new characters and friends will be able to visit and play with their friends on Aether soon enough.

Oh for sure. It doesn’t help the frustration tho. Lol . I know it is temporary it is just some people are being hit with a series of unfortunate events because of the lock. For some people waiting till oct is a long time to wait..

I don’t think this thread was meant to be anything but a venting situation and for others effected to just have a bit of a chat about it..

[Neoyoshi]

This congested status has happened before; so this is only temporary.

[Evergrey]

Who would've thunk it that when a game becomes more populare it would put stress on existing servers?
Not like other MMOs has had to lock down servers due to a high increase in players.
Especially in such a short timespan.

"We" got what "we" wanted, FFXIV to become more populare in the eyes of the public.
And now we just have to be patient until fixes are made to allow the game go run smoothly with this increase.

Happy playing.

[Shaitani]

I am having this problem now. There are several people at my job that are interested in joining our FC and playing with us, but they cant for the time being. It feels bad because we were looking at having an entire office raid group going, but we have fingers crossed the server will be unlocked before too long.

[Dagget]

I suspect that Crystal will soon be more stressed than Aether and they'll shift the lockdown to there but it still disrupts ppl trying to join their friends on the same server. As for new servers, they have so far only indicated they can't get any at present and so may well be some time next year before they can expand capacity.

[Doozer]

I suspect that Crystal will soon be more stressed than Aether and they'll shift the lockdown to there but it still disrupts ppl trying to join their friends on the same server. As for new servers, they have so far only indicated they can't get any at present and so may well be some time next year before they can expand capacity.

And why would Crystal be congested soon? I thought we were all Tumblr SJWs that ERP. You'd think people would want to avoid that and go to Primal instead.

[Hausti]

I suspect that Crystal will soon be more stressed than Aether and they'll shift the lockdown to there

Balmung is locked most of the time anyway so yeah no worries ^^

And why would Crystal be congested soon? I thought we were all Tumblr SJWs that ERP. You'd think people would want to avoid that and go to Primal instead.

Also this

[Sotaris]

The downside to being on Aether now:

P**** >> We are leaving the guild to transfer to a server that will allow your real life friends to create characters. Thank you so much for having us.

Kay.

10chars

[MaxCarnage]

Kay.

10chars

What does that response add? Why even bother saying anything at all?

[Poporito_Popoto]

What does that response add? Why even bother saying anything at all?

Pot, kettle.
Kettle, pot.