Due to the large number of concurrent players on the NA/EU datacenter, we'll be adding three new Worlds
We'll be adding Lamia, Phoenix and Siren. Among them, Phoenix is a world recommended for EU region.
To guide players to those two new Worlds, we'll be suspending character creation on the other NA/EU data center Worlds.
https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN
It seems that once players log in, they simply do not log out in great numbers. This has made it so that every server has been locked save for Faerie and Exodus on the NA/EU center. Though at the time of this writing, the above information for new servers hasn't been represented by the server refresh button.
This information is for those who have yet to make a character so that you and your friends may plan accordingly. It's unknown if the other servers will be accessible again before the end of the Open Beta test.
**Update**
The three servers mentioned above are now open, and Faerie / Exodus have both been shut down.
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Those three were JP, these are NA
Ugh, you think they would avoid making the same mistake company after company. It's the same issue we've seen on a dozen different games now.
1) Beta/Launch opens
2) OMG SO MANY PLAYERS ARE TRYING OUR GAME
3) More severs are opened to accommodate the flood of players playing the game.
4) After X amount of time, populations normalize
5) Many servers now feel like ghosts towns now
6) Developer merges server to consolidate population
7) Every cries about the merger and how the game is obviously now failing, even though that's hardly the case in most instances.
8) ???
9) Profit?
It's a catch 22 though. Because if you don't open more servers you lose potential customer because I'm not going to wait in an hour queue everyday it's just not going to happen.
@net TY. exactly. I mean people are not gonna wait hours and hours to login each day they will just quit and go back to whatever they were playing at least I would........
@dream But your also right, within a couple months the populations on some servers will be low but I guess that's something to worry about later when they cross that bridge..........