So what happens Aug 27th with Error 1017?

[UpcomingDread]

Game Over

That's what will happen

[Kuzak]

Of all the MMO's I've played, i recall no other, had this abyssmal log in restriction and server overflow issues.

Same here, I've never experienced login issues like this with other MMOs, not even during beta testing.

I've been locked out of my 1.0 character for nearly the entire early access period. SquareEnix's poor reputation is well-deserved at this point.

I plan on getting a refund and cancelling my service at the end of the week. There's no point if I can't use it, and re-rolling a brand new character on a JP server is unacceptable

The whole point of ARR was to attract and retain new customers, and now SE stands to lose a large portion of those customers . This is really bad from a business perspective because all that potential revenue will be gone soon enough. A 3 day open beta was really stupid

[leekos]

That's just great. They opened the servers to the masses early and they STILL haven't dealt with overpopulation. Makes perfect sense /sarcasm

[Blueyes]

I guess this is working to relieve congestion. Every time I see 1017 I feel less compelled to try again.

[jax_gongora]

Simple new players will create new characters in na/ea servers find out they cannot be played then after that start flooding jp servers with new characters. Game over.. bad reviews ...

[Simbot]

Error 1017.

That is what is going to happen. With all the servers full with just the EA crowd. When the game gets to live for the rest they are going to show up to full servers and be unable to create characters.

There is going to be a storm of negative reviews.

[TheMotivation]

This is what every one will be doing:

http://www.twitch.tv/themotivation

Nevermind! Queued! I accidentally clicked cancel the first time it popped up =X

[Malix]

lol thats me after taking 25mins to log in and then heading to the forums.

[schism]

lol and people thought Tanaka was bad. This may be the worst start of an mmo I've ever seen.

[Nexxa]

This is just plain pants-on-head stupid. The 'fix' is worse than the problem. I -really- hope we get compensated for being screwed out of early access by these stooges.