Something needs to be done about this. I have two friends who can't play with me after buying their boxed copies (and being excited to play after watching me play) and I'm not exactly in the mood to restart on a new server and start over just because SE can't seem to handle more character creations. Not to mention the server that my friends got in on are now also locked from character creation.

Maybe we can get a system similar to FFXI where I'd give a passcode to a friend of mine and he could use it to come to my server. Maybe one or two passcodes per person or something.

All I know is it's been kind of ridiculous not being able to play with my friends in a game that is supposed to support that above all else.