Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan94 View Post
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Tell me, how do you know a server is high pop. until it's high pop.? How do you know it will be locked, until it locks?

Tell me, how are my friends supposed to know the server they chose while I was on vacation was going to not allow me to create a character on it? They are all on because they had created characters on it prior to being locked. I am just a "late comer" (in EA?) and have been stuck at the World selection screen since release.

Yes.... all my fault. My fault they tell you to be careful to choose your server, as you cannot change once it's chosen. (Read on World selection screen) Then as a server is locked, says to play on another server (without my buddies....) or wait until the restriction is lifted. So I chose to wait. Refreshing every 3 minutes for 3.5hrs straight, while chatting with them. Mind you, the server wasn't full, as characters that were previously made were logging on.

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Of course I knew my server was going to be high pop. Cause of the issues they had with P4, but then again, so did Square Enix. And by that point people were already invested in a server they had no idea would completely lock me out of playing. (Had they known this, we wouldn't have picked the server) But by all means, 10+ people should leave the server they have sunk hours of gameplay into because SE has put a lock on new character creation....

I was prepared for a queue. I was even prepared to wait for the lock to be lifted. We didn't even get communication about the situation until 17.5hrs. of people being locked out from their server of choice. Then it got brushed under the table. (We know you cannot join your friends, sorry. Please play on low pop. server)

I don't know how you can white knight this. For a community driven game, it sure doesn't make a lot of sense how SE is handling the situation.

They could have done early LS/GC registration for World selection.... tiered Early Access starting times... but this is what happened, and this is how they are handling it.

On top of it all, they have people like you making life hell for people like me that just want to play on the same server in a MMO with their friends.

Come back during official release and tell all the new players they can't play with anyone that started the game already. Cause they obviously should have known.