Servers Locked Again..!!

[moriandrio]

Adding two or three new servers like they did during P4 isn't going to help.

They need to add ten... maybe twenty. This is still EA, after all. We're going to get destroyed on Tuesday if the amount of servers isn't effectively doubled by then.

Do you even think before you post?
What do you think would happen to those servers 2-4 weeks after release when all those ppl leave again after 14/30 free days....

[Bustercucumbers]

This is just sad. I'm on Excalibur playing my legacy character with my other legacy friends. Our other friends that are new to the game are unable to make a character on our server. They are starting to get discouraged, and I feel really bad that they can't join us. I feel like this wouldn't have happened if our characters weren't forced onto a legacy server. I feel like there was hope at the end of the tunnel until the recent response from Yoshi came out. Yoshi's post just shows a complete disconnect from the issue. They need to make this right. You can't screw over your customers like this. Didn't they learn from 1.0 to never hold back. They should have prepared for everything that they could. Not letting people play with their friends is a HUGE mistake. I know a lot of people will not be playing long if they can not play with their friends. Stop this nonsense of forcing legacy characters to a certain server. Allow free server transfers for everyone. They messed up big. Big damage control is needed asap!

Also, aren't server ques set in place to counteract high population stress. Why isn't this an option? We have a que system, why isn't SE using it to its fullest? SE has some great employees, but the people making the decisions seem to have a complete disconnect with society.

[Kyzr]

I've already had one friend quit. He wasn't convinced if he wanted to play or not, and he certainly wasn't going to play without me. I have two more in limbo. What am I supposed to do? Convince 50+ people to swap for my IRL friends? Not only that, but this cringe-worthy approach of "hush-hush" for 18 hours means lots of people have been refreshing for no reason whatsoever. This isn't a bug, it's completely in SE's control, and they decided to not tell anyone a god-damn thing until just now.

This really doesn't bode well for future "problems". I'm really amazed that a game that's already getting a second chance (an industry first) is already taking these kinds of risks with their players. They can't have my cake and eat it too; If I can't play with my cross-MMO guild and my IRL friends at the same time, there's no way I'm going to pay a dime in subscription fees. They have about a week before I'm done.

[Juliya]

My poor sister has been playing the refresh game too....waiting to join me on Leviathan. Although after seeing the response from SE I am a little worried that won't be happening soon. Wondering if I need to give up my character and join a new world....

[Sonicrich05]

If they are going to permentantly lock servers, they NEED to let us transfer 1.0 characters off legacy servers. Not being able to play with my friends that are new is going to kill this game for me. Also, it should be FREE for us to do so. This is redicolous. My cousin has been trying to get on hyperion for like 14 hours.

[Areth]

Can you open moogle already? Not having friends be able to join is retarded. I don't care if I get more que, just sort it please.

[DeAlchymist]

Here's food for thought: The servers are apparently, as Yoshida said, reaching cap, every server. It's only EGA. Launch means the end of Square Enix and don't expect to play, none of you. SE won't have this down for probably another 2-3 weeks.

[Griffeth]

If they are going to permentantly lock servers, they NEED to let us transfer 1.0 characters off legacy servers. Not being able to play with my friends that are new is going to kill this game for me. Also, it should be FREE for us to do so. This is redicolous. My cousin has been trying to get on hyperion for like 14 hours.

If they are going to lock servers, they need to give everyone free transfers period. Whole gaming communities that planned to play together are not able to do so because of these problems.

[EmiliM]

Let's say you are SE: your servers have capacity limits. When they are reached, you have no choice but to "lock" the server so people already playing are not affected by the hoards of new players trying to get in. You understand that some of those new players could very well be trying to join their friends already in, but you have no choice.

Allow all players to freely move to a different server sounds nice until you realize it doesn't solve anything: people will move around until, inevitably, some servers become packed again and people are left unable to reunite with their friends. You and your 20 friends can keep trying to jump around until perhaps you are all able to get on a single server. Except you have a few thousand others doing the same thing with their friends so either way someone will always be left out.

The only solution to this is time for server populations to stabilize, but you guys all want your game now so Yoshi-P can't do nothing but chain smoke.

[Pooky]

Just let there be super long queues. 1 hour, 2 hour queues like old school wow, whatever. People will bitch about that, sure, but at least after a month or so when a bunch of people will leave like in every MMO, we'll have healthy servers and people who are sticking around long term will play where they want.

Or offer 1 Free character transfer per person after the initial free month is over.