All but (ONE) NA server remains open

[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.

[Kiroh]

I (re)started balmung from a JP server to join some friends. Sadly, it's ruled by 50's, and those that aren't are scrambling to be with their friends at 50, so it's a grind fest to 50 and end game shouts. No RP to speak of that I saw playing since it started, only focus on "beating the game". I've rerolled on a new server.

A 50 from a Legacy server complaining about another Legacy server being crowded with 50s.

[Xenogias]

Im starting to get the feeling this overpopulation problem is going to fix itself at the end of the free time. So if they wait a little longer im sure they will reopen servers . Its only been a week since release and there are tons of new players at 50 already talking about being bored. First, grats on rushing to endgame. Second, SE made leveling way too easy and fast. I think SE knows this is going to happen too which is why they aren't going to waste resources only to have to merge servers 6 months from now. There a alot of players checking this game out right now that wont be here next month.

I'll be subbing for a long time but just wanted to put in my 2 gil on the subject.

It will fix itself no doubt. People will simply stop caring AND the power levelers will move on leaving many servers a ghost town. I'm not worried as I don't have any friends playing this one. But if I did we would have found something else to do by now.

[Inuakurei]

Maybe if everyone didn't flock to the same server it wouldn't be a problem. Let this be a lesson, never go to the most popular server at a MMO launch.

[Xenogias]

Maybe if everyone didn't flock to the same server it wouldn't be a problem. Let this be a lesson, never go to the most popular server at a MMO launch.

If ALL of the servers are having these issues how is it in any way the players fault? Holy hell man did you walk into a wall when you woke up this morning? Maybe smoke one to many bowls? You must have done something because your brain clearly is not working.

[Onje]

Second, SE made leveling way too easy and fast. I think SE knows this is going to happen too which is why they aren't going to waste resources only to have to merge servers 6 months from now. There a alot of players checking this game out right now that wont be here next month.

This is what I have been thinking as well. I've seen numerous examples of cases where the floodgates have been broken down upon release and they have caved and opened loads of new servers. It has enabled everyone to play comfortably that first month, but when the population inevitably dwindles one has been left with empty servers or the need to merge them. Neither situation is ideal, really.

I'm a bit sad at the moment that I can't play with my fiance, though....

[Aegis]

I (re)started balmung from a JP server to join some friends. Sadly, it's ruled by 50's, and those that aren't are scrambling to be with their friends at 50, so it's a grind fest to 50 and end game shouts. No RP to speak of that I saw playing since it started, only focus on "beating the game". I've rerolled on a new server.

I've been one of those scrambling to get to 50 and to get main storyline done. But I've seen quite a lot of RP (I pass by a couple of vignettes every day, it seems), a lot of it is in the small hamlets away from the main cities (Wineport, Forgotten Springs etc). It may be easier to look up RP forums online and find a group first rather than hoping to stumble on it by accident as the world is much more full of character than it was in V1 and I think RP'ers are taking advantage of that.

[StoubeB]

So am I reading correct that only one server has character creations disabled still and all others are opened once again? I haven't see any updates from the admin posting about what servers have character creation disabled on them since yesterday afternoon.

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

Have some friends that have been trying to create on Diabolos since launch with no luck, including over lunch hour yesterday (looks like he just missed since Diabolos wasn't on list in first post)

[Fuumanchew]

Actually as of now, 6 are closed out. The rest are open to character creation. You just gotta wait until early early morning. They start opening up.

[Doozer]

Actually as of now, 6 are closed out. The rest are open to character creation. You just gotta wait until early early morning. They start opening up.

But those 6 are definitely closed at all hours of the day?