Excalibur still locked !?!?!?!?

[Shae]

The biggest problem was not adding more legacy servers when the legacy server transfers took place. Early last year servers were merged together based on a population count of active players. So when you give all those inactive players a free ticket into ARR you've got two server loads of people trying to cram on to one, plus any others who transferred in. Server splits are the only real way to get around the issue. Open up a few new legacy servers and allow free transfers from over populated servers to the new servers. This happened in the early days of XI.

^ This is what needs to happen

[Alerith]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-%28Sep.-4%29

[Enyyx]

you've got two server loads of people trying to cram on to one

Or in Excalibur's case, three.

Three servers merged to become Excalibur, plus all the big groups that decided to come here in ARR... it's rather funny when you think about it. Until you try to login in anyway.

[Ryuni]

I'm sure Excalibur is over-packed with characters. With a name like Excalibur, I'm sure it's a server a lot of people try to pick first.

I mean, look at Balmung, horrible name (insignificant sword as well I believe), unless they're pulled to the server because of the RP status, it's going to be people last choice in picking servers

[KyteStones]

Are you f*cking kidding me ? Excalibur still LOCKED for new characters ? Wtf is that ?

So my friends will NEVER be able to join me ?

You messed it up again, and BIG TIME now.

Unacceptable.

I'm not "white knighting" this (great game btw) but a lot of people had a chance to get on a full server the first night of early access. The catch was you had to get on the servers at lets say 3:30 or 4:00am, create your character and go to bed. I know this because I did this for my girlfriend and a bunch of my friends when I got up for work. I made sure all of our friends got on the same server. Not to mention that you got the email ages ago about server transfer and status on how crowded they were. I originally was on Excalibur on 1.0 and after seeing the e-mail stating how overcrowded it was I transferred myself to Ragnarok and have had zero issues since. You should have paid more attention.

[Koroma_tanuki]

An unfortunate consequence all online games face. You can't have infinite players on a single server and thus restrictions are placed on them.

All I can say is that if you intended to play with your friend you should have done it sooner.

Excalibur was full before early access even began i should know, so what do you mean by "sooner"?

[Azgarde]

If Server Transfers would've been allowed by then, yeah I would've switched. But re-leveling a lvl 50 ? F* that lol.

So many fanboys/White Knights, this is ridiculous.

They messed their launch big time, what's wrong with pointing the obvious. They f*cked it up with v 1.0 because it was a bad game, and now there are messing up because of a bad server infrastructure.
They KNEW yesterday that we were MILLIONS to play this game. Why the hell did they only enhanced the servers by a small margin ? Excalibur (along with 3 others like Hyperion) have been locked since Early Access...

So yeah, I said it last night; I am not surprised at all. It was expected. Yeah, I had that one little sparkle of hope that got destroyed the moment my friend tried to create his character.

[Cromstar]

What bothers me, is that this restrictions are not affecting RMT s !!!! How they manage to get in, banned, and get back in ??

Waiting from launch (Sept. 27) to get some friends in.

[Arkista]

Simple have your friends start on another server and once they all get in you make a character on there or wait until server transfers.

[rtpsoulx]

My friends have been trying to make a character on excalibur since release, at this point i'm willing to just transfer to one of the new servers if either is legacy -_-;;