I think I figured out whats going on.

there is no "game" the mmo is us trying to get logged into nothing. we log in and get errors and come here and report different errors we find.. that's the game.. the fantasy part is that we are all pretending there is a game on the other side of all the errors. so we are progressing through the errors to the endgame which is just a life free of the stress of all the errors.

all you people who are saying "just quit, deal with it, this isn't their fault" and more things like this that are just insane are doing nothing more then saying that this general level of failure is completely acceptable.. and it just isn't.. they had plenty of time to test for these issues.. the mistakes they made were testing for 2 days at a time per beta phase.. dumbest thing ive ever seen.. and then using what im guessing are bargain basement servers and not enough of them to house their game.

take a look at these forums guys.. the VAST majority of people are locked out or cant play at all.. this game is on a road to failure before it even goes live.. and fast action is what is needed.. not more or less banning people from the game because there are just to many for their cheap equipment to handle.. that's the dumbest thing ive ever heard btw.. "just don't allow them to log in." who is the idiot at SE that made this call? he should be working at a hotdog stand on Monday..

you act like this is a "new" game.. it isn't.. remember? this is their way of saying "sorry for ffxiv 1.0" does no one remember this? but that's fine fanboys and girls.. keep telling people to leave.. and lets hope they take your advice.. and then when the playerbase is around the same as it was in 1.0 they will abandon this game just like they did the first time and you and your 500 friends that are left can sit in uldah and do nothing together and bot crafts.. just like we all did in 1.0

locking people out of the servers as a fix? f**kin ridiculous...