Datacentres may be being expanded!

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This was posted on the official forums just now.

 

Thank you very much for playing FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

 

Currently, an extremely high number of players are enjoying the game. Should the number of players continue to increase at the current pace, there is the possibility that our expectations and server capacity will be greatly surpassed. Therefore, in order to maintain a stable gameplay environment, we are implementing login and character creation restrictions.

 

In order to be able to welcome a drastically greater number of players, we are starting as early as this week with preparations to increase our facilities, to be ready by early next week. Until that time, we will be continuing to implement these restrictions as required, and we ask for your understanding and patience.

 

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, and once again thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.

 

The title refers to the Japanese datacentres, but the fact that this was posted by the NA account and in the NA area has led people to believe that the 'Japan' part is a typo from copy/pasting the message and that the NA/EU datacentres may also be seeing expansion as early as next week.

 

So yeah, it's not a sure thing until we get more information but I hope that this info is helpful!

 

EDIT: wtf autoformatting. fixed.

[StrayCatStrut]

Well, looks like neither datacenter is safe. Looks like this game is a hit on its release.

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Haha, the JP servers may have been ghost towns during early access, but it looks like a lot of people just either didn't preorder (maybe they had a lot more V1ers who didn't go legacy) or didn't want to use their EA time. The JP servers have been hammered with people since official launch.