I was this close to wiring cash to my favorite dealer for this game, but then I kept hearing(reading) horror stories about not being able to create characters in many servers or just gets plain locked out with hopeless retries.

You guys have the same problem? I'm aware that this game just opened its gates a few days back and, like some new shopping mall that's just opened, people will flock in like a bunch of Zergs. Perhaps I should wait until the hype dies down a bit? Maybe until next month at least?

Wait then if you don't want to deal with launch week blues. Its not as if there's a race to the top, especially on legacy servers.

from what u read regarding connection to server etc is not happening in JP server i guess since i dont see anyone here having it but instead these issue happen on the NA/EU server side. What we (JP) server fellas facing right now would be the character creation limit on each fav server that you like to join. I do hope SE solve this slot issue but i guess they might be tied up with NA/EU issues right now. I thought yesterday maintenance would open few slots for tonberry and apparently is not happening. My poor cousin brought the game for EA was not able to join me in tonberry and currently is playing alone on ultima first since he is not in the open beta session ( well that was his fault )

Feel sorry for your cousin.

On one hand, the troll side of me want to laugh at all the people who go the extra mile and plan their lives around the game, instead of planning the game around their lives. Yeah, I'm able to feel this way because I'm not a huge fan of MMOs; the first and last time was PSO2, and the fun ended when the admins seem to start targeting foreign players.

On the other, I feel like smacking SE's management for handing out more copies for ARR(thus more accounts) than their allocated servers could handle. I mean, they had 4 open beta phase to gauge interest and the right amount of servers. Why sell the promise of playing the game to a million kids when your server could only handle half that load(example amount)? While they're locked out of the game, their credits are running, and then we're gonna have people who paid RM95 only to be able to play the game for less than 5 hours out of 30 damn days due to lockout.

But then I'd be starting out when everyone else already maxed their stats.

This post has been edited by jamilselamat: Aug 26 2013, 03:49 PM

imho what SE did wrong is the short period of OBT duration. a 3days duration is too short for opening the test to the public instead of close beta. during the cbt phase, our test is only 3 days as well but this applied to obt (well 4 days if is for CBT players). not sure what is SE thinking during that time where 3 days for cbt = obt, what should SE expect from obt? it would be more ppl connecting and flooding the damn server and is the best time to test and fix any issues from there

This post has been edited by intothefantasy: Aug 26 2013, 03:57 PM

And this matters why?

Can't explain. It just... sucks.

This is the wrong game for you if you're going in with that mentality. All things considering, you're already late to the party then because some people should be in their late 30's by now.

Now or later makes very little difference. This game is about playing at your own pace.

considering few facts that this game involve in multiple class which means 1 lvl 50 does no mean anything...another fact is that if you are rushing for server 1st achievement? dont enter legacy server since is taken already i guess (if exist) but for late starters into the non legacy server also no more chance (if the achievement exist)..imho there is no point in rushing your level...there are so many class to play not to mention DoH class...

Alright, you're one step closer to selling me this game.

Now, is there any server with GUARANTEED access inside? I don't care if it's EU or NA or JP; as long as the ping is good for Malaysians, I can create characters and really play it, I'm good.

and not to mention, doing nothing and just exploring eorzea is also part of the game..even early lvl map got some beautiful scenery

This post has been edited by sirknieghf: Aug 26 2013, 06:43 PM

try ultima...that is the 2nd JP server i heard in this thread ppl are going to...might as well visit some threads here for alternative JP server poll? my cousin was forced to ultima and right now he is alone there

Set ur own achieveable objective and limit on what fun u want. Not on what fun those 24/7 players want.
I learned this in gw2... I want those legendary skin weapons... The limit is too high And it spoilt my fun.

haha GW2, yes legendary. yes is hard but that what i put my final objective on gw2. after getting my twilight i leave the game. Same with ffxiv just set you own goal and take you time to achieve it. Noting else matter as long you have fun.

If the other servers arent working for you feel free to join me in:
Anima
Me and a few friends are in that server around 4-5 will be looking for more to raid in the near future.