New Character Creation

[Smashington]

Is it possible to give the players some indication on when the server restrictions will be lifted for the 4-5 NA Worlds which have not allowed character creation since release day?

Even if the response is "We will not open these worlds for character creation at all." then at least players could plan their future activities knowing what will happen.

By telling players that the Worlds will open, but then the Worlds do not open, it only make players frustrated.

Just set a date when they will be open, and tell people, please.

[RadioFr33Europe]

People play MMOs to play with friends. If they can't play with friends, they should be charged.

[Goji]

I have the same issue; several of my friends are on legacy players on Excalibur, and that's the server my guild is based in. I have yet to be able to play with them, and I don't particularly want to level up a character somewhere that I'll may not be able to move or have to pay to move to Excalibur. The free week doesn't address that problem at all. If I'm not playing due to not being able to create a character on those servers, I'm just not playing.

This is my exact same position.

[Ox1de]

I finally got in Ultros after waiting a week. Those still waiting I'd check today and see if they made any changes. If the servers keep locking just wait till next maintenance and set an alarm

[Anuhea]

Are you guys going to keep Cactaur down all week? I have friends that want to join me here, maybe you should get rid of the gil sellers and bots I have been seeing and reporting so you can free up some space for others. Not saying that is entirely the issue. Just fix it please. :C

[Blunt]

An opening for Moogle would be most welcome, have friends trying since the first time restrictions were applied and none of them could yet creat a character to play with me.

[HarleyQuinn]

I am still waiting on Cactuar to open as I have friends waiting who are rather frustrated because it is almost the only server to not have allowed new characters, I feel for them I just hope that they open the server soon

[caterin]

Three weeks, 8 friends, 5 of whom were Legacy or early purchase, 2 being husband and wife, still not on the same server, still no date on the elusive server transfer promised for mid-September (*does hard Maths and figures 15 is half of 30*). Maybe it's NEXT September! I have a wagon load of stuff/jobs on my main from Legacy and I'm aware that in 3 weeks of playing these friends all have invested significant time, so they won't want to wipe and recreate, so we're hanging waiting on a promise which has not even been given a date, and even then, won't give us any certainty. Then there's the 719+ page thread by people who have code allocation issues, so I don't for one moment want to suggest we're the only players who have issues.

I like FF. I don't like the fact that years of FF1 and then FF14 1.0 plus ARR has made me feel neurotic about the high degree of difficulty involved in playing with friends and family, for which I pay, monthly. I don't like that I'm asking my friends to get up at weird hours to check character creation restrictions, when they have jobs and study comittments. I play GW2, for which I don't pay. I can guest as many times to any 2 worlds in 48hrs, and play with friends. I can transfer worlds, once a week if I feel nomadic, for a small fee, if guesting doesn't quite fill the bill. And yes, GW2, like most MMOs had some lobby server issues at startup, but they addressed those very smartly. Three weeks isn't smartly, but I was very smartly emailed today by SE about the commencement of billing.

It bothers me that I'm paying to be frustrated. I like the game, I like my friends, but a game is supposed to be for enjoyment, relaxation, and there are a lot of people who are getting neither, but being asked shortly to start paying, and for whom the only thing that commenced early was frustration. Paying and staying indefinitely, with no sign of world transfer or promise of success, and the increasing likelihood that to play with even one friend means dumping my main (which I've been told for a year I could keep), is stupid, being stressed about which friendships get sacrificed is stupid. None of us can spend our day playing 3 MMOs to keep in contact, the reality is our lives.

SE's current silence about world transfer and the realisation of an MMO experience you can enjoy with your friends is a big black hole. I see plenty in the forums from devs about fixing other issues, but I don't want to be able to ring a retainer bell in a dozen more places, I'd just like to be ringing it, like all the previous posters would, in the same place as my friends.

Please give us something concrete regarding server transfer, SE, because with every passing day, the only reality is that some of us will stop playing completely, some of us will have to start new characters and lose progress (if character creation opens up), and some of us who played FF together for many years will simply never do so again.

Not quite what we were promised.

[Stormhaven]

Heard rumors that the last patch which force booted all of the thousands of players, who never log out, to actually log out. Set my alarm clock and crossed my fingers. Logged in just before servers were supposed to go live again and to my delight green light for creation on all servers.

This is a two-fold post...
Point one: All you posters who wanted to join up, do it now! No telling how long the gap will be.

Point two: SE get your head out of your arses and implement a boot feature for inactive players. Not only will this decrease player loads on your servers for all those selfish players who are burning up your capital resources while they are sleeping/working/or whatever else it is that they do, but will help to correct the single most complained about problem in your current meta-game. Unless of course you believe that people never step away from the game to live their lives.

I was able to get around the creation bans and I hope a few of u did too.

[seekerofpower]

Heard rumors that the last patch which force booted all of the thousands of players, who never log out, to actually log out. Set my alarm clock and crossed my fingers. Logged in just before servers were supposed to go live again and to my delight green light for creation on all servers.

This is a two-fold post...
Point one: All you posters who wanted to join up, do it now! No telling how long the gap will be.

Point two: SE get your head out of your arses and implement a boot feature for inactive players. Not only will this decrease player loads on your servers for all those selfish players who are burning up your capital resources while they are sleeping/working/or whatever else it is that they do, but will help to correct the single most complained about problem in your current meta-game. Unless of course you believe that people never step away from the game to live their lives.

I was able to get around the creation bans and I hope a few of u did too.

Did you read what was added during the maintenance... apparently not... AFK timer is now in the game.