Creating characters...?

[Vinge]

Nearly all the servers were open like an hour ago when I created another character

That's kinda the point though, "nearly" all servers do come available at some point during the day, but there are specific ones that never do, and there are people who have bought the game to play with friends who happen to be on those specific servers. So these people are stuck not even being able to create a character, nearly 2 weeks after release.

Specificaly we're talking Moogle (EU), Ultros (NA) , Behemoth (NA), Cactuar (NA), Excalibur (NA) and Hyperion (NA) from the EU and NA servers. The only times they've been available in pretty much the last week was for a very brief period just after the servers came up after maintenance on Wednesday.

[pctech86]

Nearly all the servers were open like an hour ago when I created another character

EXCEPT for the one that needs to be open. This is the issue. Not that it is impossible to create a character on a server but that it is impossible ofr somebody new to buy the game or create a character on a server that for whatever reason is popular and is thusly locked. Good luck getting on Ultros. My brother has been pressing refresh every three minutes SINCE LAUNCH. (minus times he may be sleeping during the afternoon and evening). Bump for SE response.

[NovaLevossida]

EXCEPT for the one that needs to be open. This is the issue. Not that it is impossible to create a character on a server but that it is impossible ofr somebody new to buy the game or create a character on a server that for whatever reason is popular and is thusly locked. Good luck getting on Ultros. My brother has been pressing refresh every three minutes SINCE LAUNCH. (minus times he may be sleeping during the afternoon and evening). Bump for SE response.

^ That. As I said, I set an alarm clock and slept in one hour sleep cycles in order to continuously check the servers through the least populated hours of the day, and that still didn't work. No one should have to resort to trying that.

[Gamerbear]

I agree. This is an annoying situation.
Got two friends waiting since launch to join me on Ragnarok.
Even thou the server is off the list now they still cannot create a character there.
Sigh, I just want to play with my friends.
Another one just joined a JP server for now to play around so at least he can play.
Still a not very good situation.

[pctech86]

Another issue is that these people are UNABLE to post on the forums and complain BECAUSE they cannot create their character. I wonder if SE even realizes just how many thousands of sales they have lost because their friends said "dont buy it yet you cant create a character anyways" (I have told that to 5 of mine and three of those have given up). And how many subscriptions they have lost to those who have PURCHASED the game but are tired of pressing refresh for two weeks and went back to whatever game they were playing. GTAV comes out within the next week and a half and good luck trying to compete with that rush.

[BlackRoach]

Move to an empty world if you want to play together. Your world is FULL. Imagine a glass filled to the top with milk, add anymore milk and it overflows. However, you can take and pour some off into a new empty glass.

Glass = world.
Milk = people.

[GinTama]

friend of mine has been trying since last Friday to get on ANY EU server.

[NovaLevossida]

Move to an empty world if you want to play together. Your world is FULL. Imagine a glass filled to the top with milk, add anymore milk and it overflows. However, you can take and pour some off into a new empty glass.

Glass = world.
Milk = people.

Imagine if it weren't just two friends wanting to play together, but a lot of people who are members of another community on the internet, and quite a few of them are RL friends, and some of those players are already established on another server with friends and relations of their own there. Moving 20 or more people to accommodate one or two people isn't feasible.

[pctech86]

Move to an empty world if you want to play together. Your world is FULL. Imagine a glass filled to the top with milk, add anymore milk and it overflows. However, you can take and pour some off into a new empty glass.

Glass = world.
Milk = people.

Maybe you didn't read the original post. I already stated there are 15 of us on this server, many of whom are capped or almost capped. EVERY WORLD IS FULL except for when they make it available. Go try to create a character right now. In any case, it is unreasonable to ask 15 people to either pay a fee to transfer their characters, or create new ones after considerable time has been invested in them, and the same goes for the other 6 people who are trying. It is unreasonable to tell them "no you cannot play with your friends even though you all purchased the game at the same time you just got unlucky with the refreshes".

[Lexia]

That's kinda the point though, "nearly" all servers do come available at some point during the day, but there are specific ones that never do, and there are people who have bought the game to play with friends who happen to be on those specific servers. So these people are stuck not even being able to create a character, nearly 2 weeks after release.

Specificaly we're talking Moogle (EU), Ultros (NA) , Behemoth (NA), Cactuar (NA), Excalibur (NA) and Hyperion (NA) from the EU and NA servers. The only times they've been available in pretty much the last week was for a very brief period just after the servers came up after maintenance on Wednesday.

By "nearly" all servers I mean there were like 2 servers closed all the rest were open and was able to pick any server I wanted.