Creating characters...?

[Lexia]

People upset they can't choose the server they want would of hated FFXI at start where it auto-assigned you to a server.

[NovaLevossida]

People upset they can't choose the server they want would of hated FFXI at start where it auto-assigned you to a server.

Which still had a world pass system to bypass that issue. And, for that matter, the world pass system would might have evened out the server population on here in the first place.

[aznxk3vi17]

People upset they can't choose the server they want would of hated FFXI at start where it auto-assigned you to a server.

What's been done wrong in the past should not be a motivation for complacency. Similar arguments were made when Diablo 3 turned out to be awful. "Well, Diablo 2 was boring (which is subjective in and of itself) until the expansions came out, so don't mind Diablo 3's quality now." Rubbish. With that experience, what makes good and bad decisions should be clearer, and previous mistakes should no longer be made.

Case in point, just because FF11 auto-assigned people to servers doesn't magically make it okay for the current situation with FF14. It doesn't take a master game designer or economist to see that restricting character creation in this manner is poisonous to the game. I imagine a large percentage of the population of this game will be from players accepting their friend's invitation to play with them. They won't be coming back in a month; the issue might have cleared up by then, but the damage will already have been done.