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

[Bigevilone]

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!!

[Rae88]

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!!

Yeah that is incredibly annoying

The only thing you can do is keep an eye on the https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/ page and wake up really early in the middle of the night to create your character. It's a real PITA but it's the only solution and you only have to do it once

Well the only solution other than waiting for a few weeks

[lezard21]

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

[Exosapien]

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

Imagine having those devs explaining in detail why they couldn't do more about this during a global pandemic, superconductor shortages and other supply chain issues and then still acting like the world is just fine and normal and none of those things are happening and then throwing a tantrum over it.

Imagine

[Verethyl]

I NEVER had this problem playing WOW !

[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.

[lisaa]

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.

What do you want them to do? At this point it's not possible to increase capacity anymore. You can only ask for a refund

[Ozzmal]

What do you want them to do? At this point it's not possible to increase capacity anymore. You can only ask for a refund

If new players cant create their first character, they need to stop selling copies of the game. Like immediately. Imagine buying the game for the first time and not being able to create your first character? No reasonable customer would ever understand that. It leaves a terrible first impression, which is a shame considering how amazing this game is.

Now us? With the queue times? thats completely different. We play the game, we were warned. I think most players going into this expected atleast some difficulties with launch.

[Necrotica]

There really should be some forcing mechanism to allow a subscribed new account to make at least one character. Understand the concern for free trial bots, but if the account is paid for then you HAVE to let them create one character.

[Rhysati]

Oh no! Almost like it is like every MMO launch/expansion launch in history! Who would ever have guessed the servers would be full on the first weekend the game is out?!