Concerns about new character creation restrictions

[Garet]

Lol seems a lot of us are having this issue of playing with friends coming over on 2.0

[HiirNoivl]

Yes, we definitely need some guidance on this... prior to launch.

[lunaris200]

I don't know why they make it so difficult to get onto certain servers. They had a horrible system when FF11 was released. My friend and I were in the same room playing with both our computers at launch but we spent hours creating characters...being put into some random server (but not both of us on the same server) so delete..start over again. Not to mention we knew some other RL friends who had played the beta and their guild was playing on the ragnarok server. So we tried forever remaking our characters hoping to pop into ragnarok and we never did get it.

Ugg, that was the worst system ever. I'm glad you can pick your server with this game, but the frequent locks were bad. Also I wanted to make my second character but other than the first day that I picked ultros i was never able to make another character on ultros for the rest of the open beta. I hope EA runs smoother. Why does square seem to want to make it so difficult for us to play with friends on the same servers?

[Garet]

I don't know why they make it so difficult to get onto certain servers....... I hope EA runs smoother. Why does square seem to want to make it so difficult for us to play with friends on the same servers?

One of the main concern is a valid one: server congestions. But I think they should be a little flexible on character transfer for now for friends to be with one another. I don't mind moving out of masamune. I just don't want to lose my old character lol

[Blazza]

They should make a world pass system again, when a server starts to fill up, lock it unless people have a world pass from someone already on that world.

People should just be patient though, the servers will open and close a lot within the first few days/weeks to try and balance them out, so don't panic if your chosen world is unavailable, just wait a little while. Also the 6 month limit for 1.0 player transfers if probably just to non-legacy worlds, I don't see any reason why they would prevent you from transferring from one legacy world to another.

[JillyBean]

I have at least one friend who still needs to make a character on Sargatanas (played Beta but not 1.0 and didn't make it on last weekend). Really hoping this won't be a problem.

[Puck]

Yeah it would have been nice to have world passes available. Once my server was full, I'd have left to join friends on another if it were an option. As it stands, will just wait for the paid transfers. Hopefully they'll have the less populated servers available to transfer at no charge. That's not unusual.

[FinalsTwin]

But will they give the free passes? It would be nice if you would get a one time pass or something so that you can transfer once for free.

[Leknaat]

But will they give the free passes? It would be nice if you would get a one time pass or something so that you can transfer once for free.

In FF11 it was an item you bought from an NPC in-game - it was something semi-reasonable. the gold pass had other perks/benefits so cost 1k gil.
It also had a 1 week cooldown IIRC - aka had to wait 7 days before you could invite someone else. Gold pass was longer. 1 month? D:

Pretty much its sole purpose was to get you into the server. if you were transferring, you had to pay for the transfer yourself. It simply let you in through the door but it was up to you how you got there.