The server is full, try again later (1017)

[Naru9]

No, still wrong. Whatever someone paid, they didn't pay EXTRA to access the game early. Early access comes standard for anyone who buys the game, they never offered a bundle with Early Access as an extra price.

Again maybe people were worried that they would limit preorder early access and ran out and preordered earlier than usual... Again the game got cheaper the closer to launch.

[LionheartQ]

guys guys guys, i know what happened.
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they reduced the server capacity to 5 people.
one. to continuously /laugh in spite of everyone not playing
two. to gain rested experience in an inn while /dance -ing to Justin Bieber's latest album
three. to continuously put people in queue and tell them they're number 7 and then 1017 error them
four. this person is buying all the good stuff off the marketplace
and last one is just afk

[Losteh]

Realize they have under estimated how many people are actually wanting and trying to play this game on NA/EU servers. They will have it fixed and it may just take some time.

-Curga Alexander

You are aware that they are fully capable of seeing how many preorders they received, right? What they should have done is not allowed purchases after the early access started to actually receive early access themselves. Really doesn't make any sense because assuming they aren't as inept as many people think at this point, why would a company want to be surprised by extra players during early access that they had no clue were going to exist. They would only theoretically have an hour or so that it took to DL the game for those extra people to figure out that servers were going to overflow, every time another copy was bought. It's just poor planning on their part, and while other games had their problems, none had such a large portion of their playerbase effectively told to go do something else til it gets fixed.

Also, could be worth noting, I've been doing other things all weekend. Every hour or two I'd come check to see if I could get in, but it's always the same world is full bullshit assuming the servers even show up at all. This is a horrific fail bey SE.

[OneNiteStan]

Pre-order to get head start, more like pre-order to get headache. Why Square-Enix fail so hard in customer service in NA? because they hired all idiots!

[Eren_Falenas]

I think you quoted the wrong asshole, asshole!

I have a feeling he meant to quote me, which is fine.

[Hoveurt]

Again maybe people were worried that they would limit preorder early access and ran out and preordered earlier than usual... Again the game got cheaper the closer to launch.

I understand what you are TRYING to say, but what I AM saying is that no one, no one at all, paid EXTRA money aside from the game, be it regular or digital or collectors, for Early Access. There are a load of people who think that they have paid an extra fee to play early.

[Naru9]

Pretty amazing at how bad this is.. My friend whom I hate was spot on and he has less information than Square Enix yet he called all of these fails down to the T

[Aragor]

At first when people compared WoW's launch 8 years ago and this one, I said WoW's was worst because even though instance servers were broken, the rest of the game worked well. Now, after over 12h of a majority of players unable to log in the game, I have changed my mind.

I'm not sure if they are locking people out on purpose to work on their instance servers issues or if their login servers are messed up THAT bad, but either way, this is kind of unacceptable considering they knew in advance the traffic they would have to deal with by the amount of registered pre-orders.

I hope we get compensated by more than what we've lost so far, AKA near to 2 days of downtime with these issues and the 4 emergency maintenances.

OH! And they better offer free server transfers to those few servers they locked for character creation. It is not a favor to be able to play with our friends when you play a game, it's the basis of any MMO. We shouldn't have to pay character transfers or reroll even if it is still early in the game.

[Eren_Falenas]

Check your launcher screens, all NA/EU servers are down starting at 900 PDT and should be back up by 1030 PDT

[tonberryhunter]