All but (ONE) NA server remains open

[FallingSteel]

I'd also like to know when servers will be open again for character creation. I know a few people who want to play with the group of friends who I'm currently playing with but they're locked out of Cactuar right now. Any updates would be appreciated.

[Vesper]

Well if they were smart they would bust out with those Server passes that Final Fantasy XI had. Servers are to congested and they want players to spread out, thats fine. Offer player the chance to get a server pass from friends who are already on that server, but lockout the server from general admittance. It cuts out the random people rolling toons there, but allows guilds and friends and family to get people on one server without having to wait days, weeks, months...

[Nedhitis]

You did not expect them to fully open all worlds as soon as maitenance was over, right...? They now need to fill in the new spaces for each server, old and new (do remember that Worlds not support ~7500 players). And it seems server capacity may be increased FURTHER if needed, maybe to 10000 players.

To this, add optimizations to increase the amount of players ON SCREEN (mainly for PS3), which I hope are soon to come.

Do not expect servers to be fully opened anytime soon. Battles take days; wars take years, and this is a war to achieve the game's success.