Making this game less frustrating for new players.

[Tommyjc]

I really want to love this game, but I've never played a game that makes it so hard to make characters. Try yesterday to make a new character with my Fiance and try to get her into the game. Just coming back from a Hiatus after the last frustration of just trying to get her an account from her free trial, boy was that way more work than I've done in any other MMO I've played put together(WoW, Guild Wars, Lotr, SWTOR, Lost Ark, New World)

Anyhow, sorry for trailing off. So I come back and I would like her to make a character with me, whelp Home world, and in fact whole Crystal is unable to make new characters. Transfer my characters with Free Home transfer to new server Seraph, go to make characters together on Seraph, yet again can't make characters would have to make it on another Homeworld.

I just don't understand why their server system is so Frustrating. We play so many games together and never run into anything like this. You simply cannot blame it on number of players, WoW is right there with them on concurrent players and you will NEVER have this problem on WoW.

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel here? Will they ever fix this?

[Tommyjc]

I'll pass, thanks for the terrible Advice and showing you Don't read. Appreciate your time.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Well yes...you can. Because FFXIVs servers are different. They only hold up to X amount.
So when that world becomes overpopulated / Full, they dont allow anymore characters to be made. WoW may be a largely populated MMO just like FFXIV, but that doesnt mean they function or are made the same.

Im sorry for the frustration.
Will they increase Server capacity? Maybe.

[TheMightyMollusk]

So, was the problem that the server was full? Sometimes if you wait until off hours, the server load goes down enough to let you create a new character. Unless the server's marked as congested or locked, then you might be SOL.

[Deveryn]

The Dynamis DataCenter was opened up to help alleviate this. Just head over there and you should have no problem.

[Packetdancer]

I just don't understand why their server system is so Frustrating. We play so many games together and never run into anything like this. You simply cannot blame it on number of players, WoW is right there with them on concurrent players and you will NEVER have this problem on WoW.

While I agree wholeheartedly that the temporary time-based character creation restrictions on active worlds (or the complete shutdown of character creation on "congested" ones) are extremely annoying, it's worth noting that comparing any one MMO to another on a technical level is rarely worthwhile; the back-end server architecture of any given MMO tends to always be something of a weird, homegrown beast, and there's very real reasons as a result that limitations which exist on one may not exist on another (or vice versa).

FFXIV in particular is weird because of the data center/world division, which is a concept I've not seen in most other MMOs. We have a lot of things that are partitioned based on data center (instance servers, PvP rankings, etc.) and a lot of things that are partitioned based on logical worlds. I can only imagine what some of the implications of this are in terms of data-flow between the multiple physical servers that make up logical 'worlds' and 'data centers' behind the scenes.

[Tommyjc]

The Dynamis DataCenter was opened up to help alleviate this. Just head over there and you should have no problem.

Seraph is in Dynamis, Thus my frustration, thanks for the advice though

[MirielleLavandre]

Seraph isn't congested, luckily, so you can try late at night or very early in the morning to create one, at least. That, or maybe you both can start over together on another Dynamis server - with road to 80, FC xp, and earrings you'll both level up super fast anyway.

[Payadopa]

I remember you could generate a friend code on the registration site and give that to your friend so they get a spot on the same server. Is that not a thing anymore?

[Deveryn]

Seraph is in Dynamis, Thus my frustration, thanks for the advice though

(I read as far as Crystal, thought of how crowded it is there and responded.) Seraph was an unfrortunate choice. That was THE server a lot of people flocked too. The others should be fairly light.