I'm an Aussie player on the Tonberry server and I can tell you that the 1017 World Full message is indeed a major issue atm.
I have been trying to log on to the server for at least the last 8 hours and instantly receiving the above message every time. The trouble is....the server never frees up!!!

Now I'm pretty patient and I won't get quite as carried away with it all as the "old mate" in previous posts but it's not a great start for SE so far. The game to this point is excellent and thoroughly enjoying it, if only I could play it???

We have company members that cannot even start a character and inconsistent server availability. I thought developing companies were past this amateurism.

My only advice to Square Enix is that they wouldn't want to start charging subscriptions while their server architecture is in this state!

Anyway...hope some of you are enjoying it