I am in the same boat as you. My friends who were actually the one who convinced me to play this game during 1.0, but didn't ironically, now is serious in playing this 2.0 version. But since I'm legacy I'm already in Masamune server which is very congested thus they were unable to create characters in Masamune during the open beta phase 4. Am also curious if Masamune server will be open a bit during early launch since they did pre-order. I also now the servers are are actually not really full but rather SE decided to limit it during phase 4 to encourage the spreading of populations to newer servers. Hoping for a positive answer to this :-)