Creating characters...?

[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.

[ufufu]

So... what exactly are you proposing? You understand the reason that the creation restrictions are in place, right? What do you think is going to happen if they open up creation on those specific, overloaded, servers?

[aznxk3vi17]

So... what exactly are you proposing? You understand the reason that the creation restrictions are in place, right? What do you think is going to happen if they open up creation on those specific, overloaded, servers?

They'll be put onto the queue?

[Doozer]

They'll be put onto the queue?

I'm actually really okay with that. Make a character, get put into a queue, then you can go on with your life and you're notified when you log in or get an email if your character was finally squeezed into the server.

Personally I shouldn't have to suffer because I picked one of the six servers that's on lockdown 24/7 because I think Cactuars are rad.

[aznxk3vi17]

I'm actually really okay with that. Make a character, get put into a queue, then you can go on with your life and you're notified when you log in or get an email if your character was finally squeezed into the server.

Personally I shouldn't have to suffer because I picked one of the six servers that's on lockdown 24/7 because I think Cactuars are rad.

Exactly. What's the point of a queue system if people aren't even able to get onto it?


They have the gall to restrict character creation and have this staring at you in the face as you try to select one.

[Vinge]

I'm actually really okay with that. Make a character, get put into a queue, then you can go on with your life and you're notified when you log in or get an email if your character was finally squeezed into the server.

Personally I shouldn't have to suffer because I picked one of the six servers that's on lockdown 24/7 because I think Cactuars are rad.

And the really bizarre thing is, there are no queues on some of these supposedly overloaded servers. Friend of mine has been playing on Moogle (EU - constantly locked for new characters for the last week) and the longest queue he's seen since Wednesdays update is about 100 people. He can frequently log on at hours that are not particularly off peak and see no queue at all.

Yet a bunch of the rest of us have been stuck here for days not even being allowed to make characters on this server.

[NovaLevossida]

I'm actually really okay with that. Make a character, get put into a queue, then you can go on with your life and you're notified when you log in or get an email if your character was finally squeezed into the server.

Personally I shouldn't have to suffer because I picked one of the six servers that's on lockdown 24/7 because I think Cactuars are rad.

That's really all I'm asking for. As it is, I have to constantly keep checking the server list and hope that it becomes available randomly during the day or sit up all night / morning as I'm doing hoping that it pops up during dead times (which it hasn't). At least if I could make a character, I could see the queue's wait list and decide if I want to wait or do something else. Currently, I'm just waiting around, doing nothing, hoping that a server will pop up because some of them are doing exactly that.

[NovaLevossida]

Oh, and furthermore, if checking between 1 am and 8 am is yielding no luck during weekdays, what hope do I have to play at all this weekend when more people are able to get on and don't have work the next day?

[ufufu]

They'll be put onto the queue?

The queue that pings the server consistently for every person in it. Really, until Square does more work on the servers, there's not much you can expect. Of course it should have been correctly prepared for, and that's SE's fault, but it wasn't and that's where we're at now.

[Grimal]

What's bordering on criminal is the fact that I have purchased the game (with early access) and have been unable to create the character of my choice on Behometh because of these ridiculous restrictions they have placed on the servers. So, this now marks thirteen days of not being able to play (two weeks will be tomorrow). What's funny is they have decided to give me 7 additional days of play because of their past transgressions. I don't think they understand how much they are turning people in my situation off.

By the time they have worked this all out (and that's assuming they do within the next 2 or so months) is that by that time my mates will have already either moved onto another game or be so far ahead of me that adventuring with them will not be appealing, thus that window for playing the game with friends will have been lost. Can we safely say SE has shot themselves in the foot with this one?