Imagine buying a new game a not being able to make a character on any server!!

[Mialee]

The weekend of early access isn't really the time for complete newbies to be joining the game, servers are packed and character creation is limited.

Creation is not limited anymore, Creation is imposible! That the issue.

[Vahlnir]

I feel that creation should, at the very least, still be available. Can't do much about the server queues at the moment, but at least allowing players to have a character to try to log in with is better than having no character at all. I understand what they are trying to accomplish with that but at this point it really doesn't accomplish much. lol

[Myrany]

so my wife bought all the expansions today and the game and after spending all the money cant even play because there are zero servers to make a new character on. Just WoW!!

really late at night early morning the queues drop drastically so it might be possible to make a character at that time. If You are a North AMerican player I might suggest around 5-6 AM on Zalera. My queues were VERY low at that time this morning.

If that is not your data center she could at least start playing there and then world transfer later when things settle down post launch.

It is a horrible situation to be in. I totally understand her upset.

[Colt47]

As a person who has been on balmung since the launch of the game... this your first time? :P

To be fair, this is the worst I've seen of any launch they've had in the early access mode. Technically Stormblood was rough because of the queue system being horrible at the time, but this is rough because the game ate a good percentage of the WoW community, plus we got all the other people returning from hiatus like the savage players.

[JawaJoose]

Imagine buying a game to relieve yourself from stress, only for the game devs and company to screw up so bad that you have to set up sleeping shifts and run calculations on the optimal time window in which you will be able to play the gaame.

Imagine

You do understand that expansion release weekend is the time where hardcore gamers are SPECIFICALLY setting their alarms and planning their sleep schedules around the game.

Now is not the time for a casual player to dip their toes in.

[Verethyl]

I NEVER had this problem playing WOW !

[Remx]

The new player experience is just kind of.... :/
I was really excited to interact with more players with the release of Endwalker, but it's been 4 hours and I can't even log in. I've played other MMOs and I've fully aware that launch days come with crazy volumes, but I've never experienced such a system where you can lose your queue place over and over again for hours on end in a massive queue full of sometimes over 9,000 people waiting. So now you have players that will connect into a world and find ways to remain afk all night so that they don't have to suffer the login queue again... which only stuffs the server full of even more players. Is the best answer SE & the gang can come up for this disaster really 'just wait on it'?

[Sufjann]

Are you people insane?

SE shouldn’t let people pay for a subscription if it’s impossible for those players to CREATE THEIR FIRST CHARACTER.

[C000kiemonster]

Are you people insane?

SE shouldn’t let people pay for a subscription if it’s impossible for those players to CREATE THEIR FIRST CHARACTER.

Been playing since 2010
This is the worst yet for login

Contact support and request subscription time refund. They are usually friendly and understanding. Now in FFXI, they didn’t care about anything or anyone but themselves. Yoshi cares more about the community and gets involved with us than any other mmo lead. New World was a bomb because they don’t care and keep breaking the game worse everyday. FFXIV will have your back but be polite if you want a good response.




PS- ignore the trolls who are only on forum to harass while waiting in queue.

[Greenshaw]

then people should not be able to purchase the game. His wife may have not known at all that it was early access weekend. Now she has a game she cant even make a character on. She has spent money and got nothing for it, which is unacceptable. There should be servers at for new players up to the latest expansion. Once they hit max they can move over or some option like that. You should not be allowed to sell a product you cannot even use!!!!!