Making this game less frustrating for new players.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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?

Pretty sure this has never been a thing in XIV.

[Kewitt]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/
Show a pretty realtime lock down.

[Tommyjc]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/worldstatus/
Show a pretty realtime lock down.

Ya I have it, when I moved to the Seraph Server it showed as new with no issues, move, and right back to square one. I just wish everything wasn't so disappointingly difficult. This game has a lot of things I like. I just don't understand how they don't make enough money to have decent servers.

[Jeeqbit]

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.

It's pretty common for an MMORPG to have a server cap, and when it's reached, make them wait or say it's full. Just many of them are probably not popular enough now for you to ever see it. Right now, all of Crystal is Congested, which means nobody can make characters there. They want to push people onto the new data center, Dynamis.

It's pretty common for an MMORPG to have a system similar to Preferred worlds where you get a bonus for making a character on a server that is less populated. Because obviously they want them all to be populated instead of just one of them.

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.

WoW is different since I think they are more open to cloud services (?) than Square Enix is. Cloud servers allow for more flexibility but they come at a cost.

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

Yes, at one of the next patches when they decide that Crystal is not congested anymore.

[rainichan]

If the Dynamis servers are just congested (and not Big C Congested like Crystal is right now), waiting for off-prime time should alleviate the issues. Since it's a US-based data center, you're looking at 2pm PST - 9pm PST (5pm EST - 12am EST), give or take, as prime time when everyone is coming home from work and playing. Weekends are a little more crowded, but if you try earlier in the morning before mid-afternoon, your partner should have an easier time.

[AnnRam]

Please understand this is a Indie game developed by a very very small company called Square Enix.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Pretty sure this has never been a thing in XIV.

yeah I don't remember that being a thing in this game. just a friend code for the referral rewards. I do believe FFXI had something like that though atleast in its early days

[Hasrat]

You just got unlucky and picked the one Dynamis server that literally everyone else jumped on, I'd wager for probably the same reasons as everyone else as well.

While the worldstatus link is a useful tool, it could probably stand to be more prominent for new players on character creation.. but I can also say, as a new player, I paid zero attention to things like popularity or size. Hard to say what benefit would be had prior to players actually getting a sense of the world populations first hand.

[RobynDaBank]

You just got unlucky and picked the one Dynamis server that literally everyone else jumped on, I'd wager for probably the same reasons as everyone else as well.

While the worldstatus link is a useful tool, it could probably stand to be more prominent for new players on character creation.. but I can also say, as a new player, I paid zero attention to things like popularity or size. Hard to say what benefit would be had prior to players actually getting a sense of the world populations first hand.

Yeah TBH when I first began playing FFXIV I was on Omega, Chaos. Only because the name sounded cool.

SQEX should do better in informing about temporary/permanent congestions and whatnot for sure... but keep population numbers officially hidden. Everyone will just funnel themselves to the most active ones.

[hagare]

I would say either try again on a different time, or bite the bullet and make one on a different server.
at least we have DC travel now.