Character Creation Restriction

[KyrieSkye]

I don't exactly understand a lot of the replies to this thread. How is going to other websites going to fix a 1017 login error? Or how is visiting another website going to get you the ability to make a toon on a locked server? The OP has an issue with not being able to play with a very large number of his/her friends. Spouting off go read another forum on another web page is going to get them the exact same info. People can't log in, there is no work around except spam the login button. Server is locked go create another toon else where and do what then? Move 100+ with you and pray they dont lock the server as half of you make it in? Or just work a toon on another server then transfer it over! But wait that's a paid service multiple weeks down the road, I want to play with my friends and family and experience the game together with them... None of your solutions are adding up at all. Go read a book... I've already done that, I'd like to play a game that I paid for with friends who paid for it as well now if you don't mind.

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Also, people are forgetting, if the character creation restrictions somehow end up being permanent, how does making a character on another server become beneficial when your FC/guild is on a different server? If "because they will allow server transfers later" is your answer, I'm afraid people will end up being very disappointed. When they implement server transfer in the game, and if they are restricting character creations on certain servers (Let's say Gilgamesh for now), what makes you think they would allow characters to be transferred over to the Gilgamesh when you can't even create a new character there?

[Odox]

I can't play where I want but I wanted to play so I used my head, played somewhere else, read that mid September they plan on releasing world xfer services, see? See how much I knew to do that? Wanna know how I did it? I read what devs post.

Yea world transfer services that are being called an "optional paid service" as of right now. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ption_service/ I just can't see that as being fair. People aren't choosing to be on different servers than their friends/family/guilds so why should they pay extra to get something they should have the option to do from the beginning?

I'm really hoping that they give a free transfer for the first week or if you made a character by "this" date it's a free 1 time transfer. Otherwise I can't see that working out in their favor.

I'm just annoyed that I have to reroll on a EU server now because my fiance got home late from work and every NA server is now locked. We were both 1.0 CE owners which is why we waited til release. I'm also not on the same server as my old guild but that's not as annoying for me as I can always meet new people.

I'm just hoping for the best. I highly doubt that they would purposely fuck over something that they spent a few years to make right. Especially when they decided not to charge 1.0 players for the "new" game.

*edit 21/25 JP 6/6 EU and 0/19 NA servers are open. It just seems silly that their main population seems to be NA and we have less servers than JP. Seems like JP/EU should have shared and NA had 25+ servers.

**Actually it seems like there are 2 NA servers every 3 mins that keep unlocking then relocking .