Final Fantasy XIV has been surging in popularity in recent months, and the developers are seeking to address how to handle the increased number of simultaneous logins to its servers.The new Patch 5.58 Hotfix now classifies all worlds from the Aether data centre – one of three North American servers – as “congested”, meaning that players will be unable to create new characters on any world in this data centre until this classification is lifted.In an update from the game’s official website posted yesterday (August 24), producer and director Naoki Yoshida explained, “Despite expanding the maximum capacity as much as possible and closely monitoring the situation, the number of logins for each World have constantly remained at full capacity,.
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