Ok, as a veteran player of MMO's from FFXI to current. I have beta tested many MMO's and experienced lots of launches. Most times, I even take vacation time to play for a week of the start of a game.

So, I am familiar with things not being perfect from the start and expect interruptions/errors/bugs/queues etc..

This is my problem with FFXIV.. After all day Saturday, after camping server all last night, and checking back in all day today I still don't even have my character made on the server of my choice-- It's not errors, not bugs.. nothing is holding me back but the character creation lock. (And no, I'm not playing on another server without my friends nor will I pay to transfer later. It's general principle.)

I can almost of understand the concept of these "locks" when the server is at total capacity during prime time to direct the population... but during the off-time too?!?

SE, please let us make our characters on servers with friends before the rush of the 27th.