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Square Enix halts Final Fantasy XIV sales due to lack of capacity

Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Final Fantasy XIV: A Real Reborn, the massively multiplayer online role playing game, is off to a rough start. The game went on sale yesterday and has received such overwhelming interest that servers have been flooded with players trying to log onto the game. Square Enix has stopped selling the game temporarily while it attempts to add more capacity to its servers.

In addition, those who have purchased the game will no longer be able to create characters in the following worlds. A news post on the European Final Fantasy XIV site lists off all the worlds where character creation has been temporarily suspended.

Square Enix halts Final Fantasy XIV sales due to lack of capacity

Over the weekend, those who pre-ordered the game gained early access but faced server issues right away. Many players reported getting error 1017 which reads, “The World is currently full. Please wait until an opening is available and try again.” Square Enix has taken to Facebook to apologize to fans for the poor experience. Here’s what the company said:

“Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, we are currently experiencing extremely long wait times for users to be able to log in and play. As a temporary measure, we will halt sales of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN’s digital download products so we can accommodate all of those wishing to play. We are working to expand our server capacity in the coming days.”

The company did not give an expected time for increasing its server capacity so players will have to wait indefinitely. Although you can’t buy or really play the game at the moment, you can check out our hands-on with the game here.

Source: Square Enix (Facebook)

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