I bought this game from GmG and I know their policy will be no. But will square enix send me the difference I lost?
I bought a MMO and ended up buying a you can't play with your friends simulator. The server I was trying to get on been locked for almost 2 weeks now and I try about 12 hours a day running in the background. I even switched my sleep right around a week later trying to get on early in the mornings.
Is this seriously their vision of a MMO? Worst part I said can you guys not just move your characters to a new server? Apparently no...
So that is it I either charge back everyone.. Get my accounts locked or bit the bullet and just lose the money or worse yet play a MMO without playing with my friends.
PS: This was 2 weeks + Ago not starting today. Today just bites the bullet because now everyone has come back.
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So your friends could transfer to your server if they wanted.
Afaik you can't pay to transfer to their server, at least according to info here you can't transfer to a server with character creation restrictions: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/help/option_service/world_transfer_service/
I'm sorry for your situation, but I don't think you can do anything but wait. In a couple of months your friend's server will likely have free character creation spots again, and they'll be able to tell you about it so that you can join their server.
Getting a refund because a single server is full is really unlikely. As long as there are servers with free spots in them, Square Enix is giving you the service they sold. You can't expect that they'd fit all their players on a single server.
It's like paying for a wedding but they never said the bride and groom had to be at the same venue.. I don't agree with your look at it. Yes let a dozen friends pay crooks to transfer off a server at cost... That is tech full so it should have free transfers... Not to be a jerk but I have a feeling you might be coming off as a bit of a fan.. I assume your all for the retainers costing money and added new ones in but not adding ones you can obtain for free?
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I had a similar problem to you, however, i found that at certain times on certain days that you could create a character on any server.
They rotate character creation restrictions every 3-4 hours a day. It is a bit mismanaged and annoying, no doubt.
There is also a site that will notify you the second a particular server eases character restrictions. Makes getting onto a full server very easy.
http://worlds.nyxstudios.moe/
You mean the $20 transfer or there is a free one?
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If OP was unable to create character before the launch of expansion, despite changing his sleeping times to do it, it's very unlikely that he'd be able to create a character now that a new expansion has just launched.
EDIT: The website mentioned by Waldoe could help. /EDIT
EDIT 2: OP, it looks like the best time to try creating a new character is right after server restart. You might want to keep your eyes open for those, and try right when the server comes online /EDIT
You mean the $20 transfer or there is a free one?
Honestly not trying to be mean here, but waiting till an expansions launch to try to make a character was a pretty bad move. Our roommate wanted to try the game again when he found out about HW but he was on another server. Me and the GF paid his sub and even weeks leading up to HW launch YES our server (Excalibur) was full but around 4 AM our time character creation opens up. Took a few tries because hes not used to staying up that late due to his work schedule but after 4 days of it coming up at the same time he managed to brave it through on the 4th night and make his character. From what I understand making new characters has been disabled indefinitely for the HW launch IF you/your friends are on a already populated server prior to the expansion launch.
The very fact that your friends never notified you of this is pretty messed up tbh, and they should be eating your transfer fee since they want YOU playing with them.
Which is feel is fairly ironic in its own sense, if SE allowed anyone to create a character specially in the surge of activity a expansion brings to a game we would be looking at login ques for the first two weeks like every other launch. Sure the entire Primal shard was down for a good two hours last night so I had to wait to play but not nearly as bad as 2.0 or other launches have been.
Sorry OP, but servers hold how many players? I venture to say in the realm of a thousand maybe? Don't know but it's definitely not a tiny number.
You are unlucky in that you can't create a character on that server but to expect SE to expand their server just for you is silly at best.
You came late, you don't get preferred seating...just like anything else.
Nope, I expect them to offer free transfers off the populated servers so my friends can join me on a lower populated server. Also I expect Them to remove transfers to full servers for money. As if it's full then it should be 100% denied. I think these are pretty fair and honorable requests. There is no honor in cheating your customers.
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Plays the game and trolls these forums constantly.