Idea for those fed up with issues

[Colly]

?? Make ONE character, focus on it, learn your main then second pursuits, THEN go into all the other things. This is NOT an mmo like World of Warcraft where you're FORCED to make alts if you want more than two professions. What you've already done is tripled the number of characters created. The only reason to maybe make an alt is if half your friends are on one world, and half are on another. Or maybe if you want to make a hermit character on some world where nobody knows you for those days when you really just want to play alone without all your pals asking to 'come over and do this with us'. If everybody who bought FFXIV had only made ONE character and stuck with it, then #1 - they'd probably already be many levels higher, and #2, the servers maybe wouldn't be bogged down with players rushing from continent to continent switching worlds just because one takes longer to log into (because players on the OTHER continent had rushed over to it 12 hours ago when their own servers were bogged down.) Picture the cartoon where all the passengers on a cruise ship rush to see something on one side of the ship, cause it to list over that way, and then they rush to the other side of the ship and cause it to list the other way. If everyone would just quit rocking the boat, the server loads might possibly settle down to something manageable. As it is, I imagine the server loads presently look like a giant tsunami circling the globe in a 24 hour wave pattern. Does nobody else see this is likely what is happening? Calm down, quit spamming alts into new worlds. If you can't log in here, wait a few hours and either go read a book or play your now-neglected toons in your previous MMORPG. Or just chill and find the FFVIX beginners guide and research tricky things like discovering how you're going to get guild rep to learn to ride, or which two classes you need to learn first to make your toon the most awesome it can be. For my Thaumaturge to become a Black Mage, I discovered I need to choose Archery as the next path at some point. Glad I found that out while I was still only level 15. For riding, I'm still not sure what I need, but I've started doing all the levequests I'd been ignoring and also now the guildquests as soon as I can. I'm still being defeated by one particular instanced quest that I have to do alone where 'echo gives me' some extra power. I keep getting killed, but each time I return, I'm doing a little better than the previous. There are 4 npcs and now I can kill the first 3 and almost kill the 4th before I die, but I think next time I might finally know how to use my sleep spell more effectively. Meanwhile, logging in requires about the same persistence. I've died on that quest about 6 times now and have to keep running back from Camp Drybone, but am I going to give up and make a new class toon on another server? No. Logging in, sometimes I get messages that it can't list the worlds on my continent. I try later and get the list, but the world is full. I try later and get the list, the world is full, but also a queue with a number of players waiting in it. At that point I get excited because I'm almost in. Repeating the login long enough, the queue empties and I get in. Then I will attack that troublesome quest I have with the same persistence. Once I'm IN the game, it plays just fine! One player, one avatar, and this game would probably be just flying along already without waiting for server upgrades. Now, Im sure, someone will protest "But I'm only logged in with one toon, so I'm still only a load of 1!" Really? Then stay on your own continent and stick with your MAIN avatar and never login with the others to bog down those servers. And to the idiots logged into a foreign continent server, please quit griping about seeing strange languages in the chat window! Those people are probably 10 times as annoyed watching English scroll up their chats in the JP servers. Just learn to use the chat filters so you only see your friends or party's chatter. You're griping in chat is just making pointless noise and annoying other players (both foreign and English speaking.)
By the way, yes, I came to the forums and killed some time waiting for my next login attempt by making this post. LOL! Enjoy the game when you can get in. When you can't, just do some real life stuff for a while and try again later. Quit making extra avatars you'll only later abandon or be distracted by.