This thread is a mixture of a plea and a way to vent a bit of steam.

I played 14 during 1.0, and we started off on a server named palmora (sp?) through server merges we eventually ended up on Excalibur. Fast forward to the launch of ARR, and Now we have an issue where quite a few members of our guild (who is originally from FFXI) were unable to create a character because the realm was closed. One of those people happens to be my wife, a person I tried daily to talk in to playing the game during the period that I played 1.0. She refused because she thought she didn't have the time to get mixed up in another mmo. Finally, she agreed because she was missing our old friends from 11. SO, I bought her a copy of the game. During beta she had install issues and then issues with launching the game, once those were worked out the early access was nearly finished. Client issues knocked her out of the rest of early access. (continued below)