Wait to see how Thursday's server updates work. Last week's were pathetic, SE added a single server to each region group and it was full before the end of the day, God knows what prompted Yoshi to think adding just 3 servers total would make any huge difference to the character creation lock problem: it did help hugely the 1017 problem, as shown by the near total absence of reports of the in the last week, but it barely scratched the surface with creation problems.