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no such thing as a perfect launch ;)
 
at least I can log on to my other characters....	
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Hello!
 
We are aware that players are currently experiencing an issue that prevents new character creation. Our team is investigating, and we will keep you updated in this thread. 
 
Thank you for your patience. 
 
Team WildStar 	
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			Hopefully people will notice this is a problem being worked on and stop crying. Give the devs some time to work. All launches have issues.	
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			I wanted to get away from Archeage for a while with Wildstar, now I have to play more Archeage while I wait till I can make a character.	
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			Good to see the same bugs that were present at the launch over a year ago are still here.....	
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			have a similar issu not sure if it is the same one logged in fine was sortinfg bags etc needed to go to thadd so transmatted now cant log on that char it just hangs on load screen. Ps not complaing just infoprming the devs by this is pve server eu that it happened on
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Balvin	
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			"We're going to wait and see if it fixes itself" 	
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			Except... this isnt a launch..... The game has been out for almost a year and a half.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Luciferstwin	
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			Still a better launch than WoW:WoD	
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go play something else and stop crying 
 
grow up bud 	
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Except... this isnt a launch..... The game has been out for almost a year and a half.
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			archeage is poooo so is skyforge was founder on both	
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It's pretty much a launch. Huge changes and a large new population waiting to play the game. It's Launch 2.0
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			Thanks for working on it, hopefully it does not take all that long.	
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I wanted to get away from Archeage for a while with Wildstar, now I have to play more Archeage while I wait till I can make a character.
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archeage is poooo so is skyforge was founder on both
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archeage is poooo so is skyforge was founder on both
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			After clicking 'Enter Game' should we just let it sit there? I don't want to close the game just to have to sit through that queue again.	
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			its not just character creation. getting 10 minute load screens trying to log on both my 50 toons in thayd. it let me log on my lvl 15 toon in galeras in a few secs. what the heck is going on?
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by quipalco	
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After clicking 'Enter Game' should we just let it sit there? I don't want to close the game just to have to sit through that queue again.
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its not just character creation. getting 10 minute load screens trying to log on both my 50 toons in thayd. it let me log on my lvl 15 toon in galeras in a few secs. what the heck is going?
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			I am so tempted to re log right now... but queues though	
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			Not that i expect launches to run that smoothly  I was exited for this game but being stuck at character creation is really a downer.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Lotus Prime	
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there is no excuse for this from a professional company so i already give it a thumbs down good job for a bunch of retards behind a device that your not qualified to use
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meh im use to launches going this way i can wait
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			Any time estimate on character creation?	
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They are too busy giving away stuff on their livestream than actually working on the game to get players in.
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			there is no excuse for this from a professional company so i already give it a thumbs down good job for a bunch of retards behind a device that your not qualified to use	
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See the thing is, the 4 or so people on the stream have literally no power over the server lag and issues in game. They're developers.
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			I feel like people in this thread have never played a game on launch before.	
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there is no excuse for this from a professional company so i already give it a thumbs down good job for a bunch of retards behind a device that your not qualified to use
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They are too busy giving away stuff on their livestream than actually working on the game to get players in.
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			I re-logged several times including a reboot or two and had no queues.  But, if it makes you feel better... It didn't help. 
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Square Badge	
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I feel like people in this thread have never played a game on launch before.
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You really think they have a huge team after the flop from the launch over a year ago?
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			@drakz75 u seem mad 	
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We're still working on this :) It's not forgotten about. 
 
I don't have an ETA at this time. 
 
- Team WildStar 	
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I am so tempted to re log right now... but queues though
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			Well I HAD 3 players I talked into trying the game, they gave after an1 hour/15 minutes and I cant even log into my toon in Thayd at all	
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New F2P player here.  Been stuck at Enter Game for a while.  Advice on quitting and restarting, or waiting it out?
 
This isn't my first MMO launch rodeo, so no salt here. Just want to know if I should wait or not.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by rizenfrmtheashes	
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			1 1/2 hour later, no updates. They're definitely waiting for it to fix itself.	
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			you guys do realize the game has been out for over a year right?
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by xXGnikWerdnaXx	
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you must be stupid or something 
 
when does any launch go smoothly lol 
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@drakz75 u seem mad 
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Rift's Launch was flawless
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New F2P player here.  Been stuck at Enter Game for a while.  Advice on quitting and restarting, or waiting it out?
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I played the rift launch. It was far from flawless. Both the original and the free to play. 
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Rift's Launch was flawless
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New F2P player here.  Been stuck at Enter Game for a while.  Advice on quitting and restarting, or waiting it out?
 
This isn't my first MMO launch rodeo, so no salt here. Just want to know if I should wait or not.
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Id like to know what rift you played. Because the one that myself and about 25 guildies played had absolutely 0 problems. They didnt even need to bring servers down for hotfixes because of the servers they had.
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I played the rift launch. It was far from flawless. Both the original and the free to play. 
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I played the Rift that tried and failed to be WoW. The one filled with lags and game breaking bugs in raids literally months after release. Honestly if you like Rift so much go play that.
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Keep in mind in the char creation screen you can generate a code to recreate the looks of your char before trying to finalize. Takes a lot of work out of remaking your char when the issue is resolved!
 
Just click the save/load char button after customizing your char and you will get a string to recreate it instantly!
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by LokenCerberus	
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I played the Rift that tried and failed to be WoW. The one filled with lags and game breaking bugs in raids literally months after release. Honestly if you like Rift so much go play that.
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Seems to be happening to mostly everyone. This is common during a launch, regardless if the game has been out before or not.
 
Hopefully we can get in soon, being a new player I'm anxious to try it out. See you guys in-game. :)	
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Well that proves right there that you didnt once play rift.
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Sure Lucifer. There's obviously no point in me even replying so this is my last one 
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			I let it sit til i disconnected. No queue, but the problem is still being worked on.	
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			They maybe doing this so people create characters on pvp servers first.	
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			Well this launch should of gone smother than it did. Pretty sure the first launch went a lot better. Right now for me, the only issue is REALLY bad lag. But I haven't tried the character creation yet. If its not working on the day we get a bunch of new people, that's not good at all. Luckily it is a weekday and people do have work the next day. Hopefully they can get everything running smoothly before Friday night. 	
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			Just throwing it out there that you CAN successfully create a toon on the PVP server, if that helps at all. Probably already knew that. But there it is anyways. Keep us updated!	
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Having the same problem, despite previously having a character. :<
Hopefully it fixes up soon.	
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			Was looking to play new with a friend tonight.  RIP the dream, but nothing you can do about it. 	
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Well this launch should of gone smother than it did. Pretty sure the first launch went a lot better. Right now for me, the only issue is REALLY bad lag. But I haven't tried the character creation yet. If its not working on the day we get a bunch of new people, that's not good at all. Luckily it is a weekday and people do have work the next day. Hopefully they can get everything running smoothly before Friday night. 
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Just throwing it out there that you CAN successfully create a toon on the PVP server, if that helps at all. Probably already knew that. But there it is anyways. Keep us updated!
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			Yarr if you think it is as easy as clicking a few buttons and toggling a few switches to fix things in software, you need to go read a book.. Oh and maybe after you finish the book you might want to read up on programming a bit, just to stay on subject	
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Character creation was working for me on Warhound, but not Entity. I'm not sure if that is the case right now, but it's worth trying if you're F2P and looking to get into the game
 
It seems like Entity is getting flooded hard
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Spectral Orchid	
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Hey all -
At this time this issue seems to only be affecting Entity and character creation is working on all other servers. We are actively seeking a fix, but have no ETA at this time.
 
Thanks,
Team WildStar	
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Hey all -
At this time this issue seems to only be affecting Entity and character creation is working on all other servers. We are actively seeking a fix, but have no ETA at this time.
 
Thanks,
Team WildStar
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			All other servers? I only see Entity and the PVP one. what is this "other servers" plural you are referring to?	
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All other servers? I only see Entity and the PVP one. what is this "other servers" plural you are referring to?
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			non NA servers	
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Confirmed.
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I will keep trying for about a hour, then head to sleep. 
 
Sat in queue for about 45 minutes to get to the character editor for this happen, was sort of bummed, but this stuff happens. So I am alright with that, will give it a try when it comes back online.	
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Hey all -
At this time this issue seems to only be affecting Entity and character creation is working on all other servers. We are actively seeking a fix, but have no ETA at this time.
 
Thanks,
Team WildStar
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So all 4 people I convinced to bother with this game have given up.
 
It's been over 10 years now, when will companies learn not to underestimate demand during their stress test? The "It's an MMO launch" excuse is moot when it's obviously possible to release an MMO without these issues, especially one that's been on the market for over a year now.
 
Sigh.	
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			RESTART PVE SERVER - YOU'RE LOSING POTENTIAL NEW PLAYERS	
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How does the one thing that goes unchanged get broken when everything else that changed works?
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			Come on, fix the issue. Restart the server already.	
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But it did get a bit of changes...
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Come on, fix the issue. Restart the server already.
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			ITS BEEN 2 HOURS - LET'S BE HONEST, RESTARTING IS THEIR ONLY OPTION.	
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A lot of people trying to make characters at the same time on a higher pop server compared to the others? Sounds reasonable to me.
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So all 4 people I convinced to bother with this game have given up.
 
It's been over 10 years now, when will companies learn not to underestimate demand during their stress test? The "It's an MMO launch" excuse is moot when it's obviously possible to release an MMO without these issues, especially one that's been on the market for over a year now.
 
Sigh.
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So all 4 people I convinced to bother with this game have given up.
 
It's been over 10 years now, when will companies learn not to underestimate demand during their stress test? The "It's an MMO launch" excuse is moot when it's obviously possible to release an MMO without these issues, especially one that's been on the market for over a year now.
 
Sigh.
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It got graphic updates. It worked fine the past few weeks during the closed beta, but now all of a sudden it doesnt work? Seems fishy to me
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Even AAA single player games that literally have zero server issues to worry about have crappy launches due to bad code and rushed production.
No matter what, Carbine/NCSoft are a company. Wildstar Free to Play had a deadline, and no matter what, they had to meet it. You can't account for every variable. They also have to take money into account. If they dropped thousands on new servers just for the F2P launch, then watched as all the players trickled away making that useless, would be a huge hit.
I'm not trying to white-knight Wildstar, but honestly, what did you guys expect?
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			It is working now, but it's a little iffy still. I had sat after hitting enter for a while, quit the game, and then it said the name was taken (nobody would have taken Fozee Stickers, come on). Then when I exited and came back again, the character was there. 	
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ITS BEEN 2 HOURS - LET'S BE HONEST, RESTARTING IS THEIR ONLY OPTION.
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A lot of people trying to make characters at the same time on a higher pop server compared to the others? Sounds reasonable to me.
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			TOILET BRUSH, this is far from the worst launch ever... anyone remember the Vanguard Saga of Heroes launch?	
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@Eindeer It's not just "one server for PvE," as WildStar uses a MegaServer structure which dynamically expands and retracts based on current population. The issue at hand seems to be a failure with regards to the systems creating and filling starting instances based on the number of players creating new characters. That is, the system is trying to get people in queue in-game faster than the MegaServer can create the character data and place them. 
 
Sadly, this means it's an issue quite a bit more complicated than just being overloaded. A fix implementing more heavy handed queues will take time, which may or may not be faster than just waiting for initial players to spread out of starting areas.	
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CHARACTER CREATION STILL BROKEN, WORST LAUNCH EVER
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Explaining facts when everyone just wants to rant? Sir, you need to calm down. :P
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To behonest, they offered the game to be Free-to-Play and that is great, but only having one PVE and one PVP server? Did they honestly believe the hype/flood of coming to play game not mean anything? I was expecting at least 10 servers 5 of each, looking back on previous MMO's they had PLEANTY of servers and most servers did NOT experience other server instibility issues, this shows the company couldn't over estimate just under estimate. Course most will say nothing at launch goes perfectly, sure let's argue that, the game is out for over a year, don't you think they would of had those issues hammered out especially changing over to a Free-to-Play model?
 
I myself wanted to get friends into playing the game, but we cannot do anything! It's great they are working on the issue but I think if they ahd more servers it would of aleviated the flood they didn't estimate for. I myself am on my 2nd round to even get my character even created took 40mins on the alst one.. this one is looking to be the same.	
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			it is not	
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Not being able to complete character creation is a really bad first impression for new players, and not a terribly good one for returning players either.
 
Hopefully things will be sorted out tomorrow.  :)	
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You can get on now, or at least I did. Characters I created earlier are now pickable.
 
Got on, did about 3 quests, got stuck in place had to relog. Now can't connect to patch server.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Macguffinstv	
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			it is working now. 	
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I feel like people in this thread have never played a game on launch before.
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			CHARACTER CREATION STILL BROKEN, WORST LAUNCH EVER	
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			I give up ... been downloading and waiting to play this since 6pm EST.. its now after 2am...  f'k wildstar for tonight.    	
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			For what it's worth, all the characters I created since the server started just all showed up on my character screen. This is on NA Entity.	
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I just relogged and one of the characters I tried to create and got stuck is now appearing in character selection after login. 
 
It appears to be working.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Square Badge	
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			You guys did NOT learn past mistakes, want to compete in this market-> first imrpession are crucial. If you decide to release this game for a third time.... I BEG make sure it works first....	
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A lot of others are now claiming it works.
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			ppl say its working, its NOT, repeat NOT - Entity....maybe they are on the pvp server, but Entity is still broken. 	
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			Still stuck at finalize. Restarted the client, loaded the saved character code and it's still stuck. Just updating since some people said that it was working.	
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			Ended the program relogged still NOTHING on my character that I created twice... it's not working... I feel sorry for those that have work where they wasted their time trying to see if they would like the game to support it.. talk about a bad taste in your mouth.	
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			its not working on Entity NA atm	
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			Damn FREE games... always making us wait for a FREE game. Yep..... don't care. I'll wait. It's Free	
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			Yes.  It is working for me... and it IS, repeat IS entity.  Thank you very much.	
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			Yea not working for me T-T	
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Still not working, 2 1/2 hours later. Stuck at creating character after relogging completely. 
 
Any updates?	
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			On my 3rd creation after seeing Square Badge's post, still not working/moving!	
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			was so excited to be able to create my character finally but then i get stuck on entering the game.	
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Still a better launch than WoW:WoD
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I can bet a lot of new players are casuals that arent playing this late. And returning players should know by now all launches are bad.
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			So since it does work on the PVP server, can you make a toon on the PvP server and another on the PvE?	
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So since it does work on the PVP server, can you make a toon on the PvP server and another on the PvE?
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im surprised that the servers are still running. this launch is very smooth.
Or maybe they are running because the devs reduced the number of chars created/hour? who knows ;)	
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Not being able to complete character creation is a really bad first impression for new players, and not a terribly good one for returning players either.
 
Hopefully things will be sorted out tomorrow.   :)
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Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
It's one thing to wait in a queue with a light at the end of the tunnel, it's another to have no hope of a fix and left in the dark for 3 hours.
 
Wildstar takes the cake as the worst launch ever.
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They didn't lose any "potential" players lol, it's a free game now. The only thing that will happen for them is the number of players will Increase.
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			Its definitely gonna get worse once people wake up	
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Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
It's one thing to wait in a queue with a light at the end of the tunnel, it's another to have no hope of a fix and left in the dark for 3 hours.
 
Wildstar takes the cake as the worst launch ever.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by TOILET BRUSH	
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			They didn't lose any "potential" players lol, it's a free game now. The only thing that will happen for them is the number of players will Increase.	
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			Then you probably never played any other games before, Toilet Bro
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by vilelust	
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			Of course he hasn't this is basically like his first game and that's why he is coming up with his own assumptions.	
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Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
It's one thing to wait in a queue with a light at the end of the tunnel, it's another to have no hope of a fix and left in the dark for 3 hours.
 
Wildstar takes the cake as the worst launch ever.
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			It's a pity that this is a persistent problem at launch, had a good nights leveling planned with some mates, but none of us can play. But this is a launch and like all launches, there are problems, no need to get angry claiming that this is losing major numbers of players or anything. Because in the end, we all know, if you spent the time to download and update, you will just come back later and try again like everyone else.	
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			I have no characters, I wiped them all to start fresh. Stuck at character finalization. Hour glass has been spinning now for almost 45 minutes. 15 more minutes and I'm heading back to WoW.	
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I have no characters, I wiped them all to start fresh. Stuck at character finalization. Hour glass has been spinning now for almost 45 minutes. 15 more minutes and I'm heading back to WoW.
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			its not the worst launch ever BUT its pretty terrible to get new players inthe door, seeing ppl LOVE to talk crap online, so when all these new players rushing in cant even get past character creation, the 1st thing they do is QQ EVERYWHERE, and 1 major thing this game did not need was more QQ slander. it shouldn't affect the games pop insanely or anything its very late in the US and its afternoon in the southern hemisphere, but if this problem isn't addressed in the next 24 hours...then...yer......thats gonna hurt. just wishing i didnt take work off early today to stare at the forums lol :( 	
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I have no characters, I wiped them all to start fresh. Stuck at character finalization. Hour glass has been spinning now for almost 45 minutes. 15 more minutes and I'm heading back to WoW.
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I've played every MMO and I've been to 10+ launches, never had an issue creating a character.
 
They've already restarted the server and that didn't fix it, at this point we can all agree they have no idea what's going on.	
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To behonest, they offered the game to be Free-to-Play and that is great, but only having one PVE and one PVP server? Did they honestly believe the hype/flood of coming to play game not mean anything? I was expecting at least 10 servers 5 of each, looking back on previous MMO's they had PLEANTY of servers and most servers did NOT experience other server instibility issues, this shows the company couldn't over estimate just under estimate. Course most will say nothing at launch goes perfectly, sure let's argue that, the game is out for over a year, don't you think they would of had those issues hammered out especially changing over to a Free-to-Play model?
 
I myself wanted to get friends into playing the game, but we cannot do anything! It's great they are working on the issue but I think if they ahd more servers it would of aleviated the flood they didn't estimate for. I myself am on my 2nd round to even get my character even created took 40mins on the alst one.. this one is looking to be the same.
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I have the day off tomorrow, and had stocked on supplies.
I am waiting this out, as long as it takes.  :P
 
It happens, everyone just take a chill pill. Go play around on YouTube or something for a bit. It's free-to-play, they really owe us nothing. We should be very thankful for the chance to play this game. 	
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I've played every MMO and I've been to 10+ launches, never had an issue creating a character.
 
They've already restarted the server and that didn't fix it, at this point we can all agree they have no idea what's going on.
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I have no characters, I wiped them all to start fresh. Stuck at character finalization. Hour glass has been spinning now for almost 45 minutes. 15 more minutes and I'm heading back to WoW.
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I've played every MMO and I've been to 10+ launches, never had an issue creating a character.
 
They've already restarted the server and that didn't fix it, at this point we can all agree they have no idea what's going on.
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I started the game and the character i tried to create about 2 hours ago was sitting at character select
 
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	Edited September 29, 2015 by Malevs	
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			Works for me now	
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Thanks for your patience while we work through this guys.
 
- Team WildStar	
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			Had the same problem... I just let it sit and about twenty minutes later I was in. So... patience may be key.	
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Thanks for your patience while we work through this guys.
 
- Team WildStar
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its not the worst launch ever BUT its pretty terrible to get new players inthe door, seeing ppl LOVE to talk crap online, so when all these new players rushing in cant even get past character creation, the 1st thing they do is QQ EVERYWHERE, and 1 major thing this game did not need was more QQ slander. it shouldn't affect the games pop insanely or anything its very late in the US and its afternoon in the southern hemisphere, but if this problem isn't addressed in the next 24 hours...then...yer......thats gonna hurt. just wishing i didnt take work off early today to stare at the forums lol :(
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Just go now. I honestly don't seeing this being fixed for another few hours. I think they need to restart the server, but refuse to because there's so many people currently playing and would rather keep their experience swell rather than aiding us.
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 "No mmo launch goes smooth"  "Launch" ?!  As far as i know this game has been running for a long time before this f2p version...
 
Same problem here btw, on EU PVE	
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Thanks for your patience while we work through this guys.
 
- Team WildStar
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I have the day off tomorrow, and had stocked on supplies.
I am waiting this out, as long as it takes.  :P
 
It happens, everyone just take a chill pill. Go play around on YouTube or something for a bit. It's free-to-play, they really owe us nothing. We should be very thankful for the chance to play this game. 
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Been re-watching markipliers videos while this has been going on, still waiting on my 3rd attempting in creating a character to go thru.. *sighs*
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I have the day off tomorrow, and had stocked on supplies.
I am waiting this out, as long as it takes.  :P
 
It happens, everyone just take a chill pill. Go play around on YouTube or something for a bit. It's free-to-play, they really owe us nothing. We should be very thankful for the chance to play this game. 
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Still a better launch than WoW:WoD
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	Edited September 29, 2015 by Deadly26	
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			So how's it going so far? Its been 3 hours and I still cannot make a character. I want to play so bad  :( !!!!
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Deadly26	
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To behonest, they offered the game to be Free-to-Play and that is great, but only having one PVE and one PVP server? Did they honestly believe the hype/flood of coming to play game not mean anything? I was expecting at least 10 servers 5 of each, looking back on previous MMO's they had PLEANTY of servers and most servers did NOT experience other server instibility issues, this shows the company couldn't over estimate just under estimate. Course most will say nothing at launch goes perfectly, sure let's argue that, the game is out for over a year, don't you think they would of had those issues hammered out especially changing over to a Free-to-Play model?
 
I myself wanted to get friends into playing the game, but we cannot do anything! It's great they are working on the issue but I think if they ahd more servers it would of aleviated the flood they didn't estimate for. I myself am on my 2nd round to even get my character even created took 40mins on the alst one.. this one is looking to be the same.
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Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
It's one thing to wait in a queue with a light at the end of the tunnel, it's another to have no hope of a fix and left in the dark for 3 hours.
 
Wildstar takes the cake as the worst launch ever.
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If only it was just the character creation problem lmao! Cash shop is fkd up. Now we cant even use mounts cause of "insufficcient cosmic points" as well as /say channel doesnt work.
 
Cash shop stucks in an endless loop of a hammster in a wheel saying "updating". And i ve spent 50 euros already on the 4k nccoins just to not be able to even use my retroblade mount LMAO!
 
Seriously wtf is this....and on top of that that livestream was so bad. Immature af. Them giggles and that lead combat 1v1.......seriously wtf is this lol	
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Not to be rude, but its very apparent you don't understand how MMO networks work. Well at least how shard servers work. Restarting server clusters don't really solve issues. The hiccup is more than likely on the database side, not the realm or load balance side.
 
Example: You will have a gateway connection directing traffic on which server is the fastest with the lowest population split for the current cluster. With the sudden onset of players, the additional load balancers they setup are probably having issues with trust relationships with the database. Working on a database is very time consuming and can cause issues, especially with more than 1000 concurrent connections.
 
Why some people are able to get in and others has to do with the DNS table actively refreshing would be my best guess. Granted, I don't know the exact specifics of how they do client/trust or database/shard loads, however the general knowledge of how MMO networks points that as the problem.
 
Source: Game Designer.
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So how's it going so far? Its been 3 hours and I still cannot make a character. I want to play so bad  :( !!!!
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There is enough Salt in this thread to put on my dinner.
 
This issue is only affecting Entity PVE megaserver please give them ample time to fix problems.
No launch is 100% fine.
No you do not know their systems like they do, you may think you do but unless you work with them.. you don't.
Just have some bloody patience.  :D 	
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			Maint in 20min. Probably to fix the issue	
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So how's it going so far? Its been 3 hours and I still cannot make a character. I want to play so bad  :( !!!!
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			6th in que 10 minute wait lol. i think it may be nap time!	
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			20 min until maintenance :0 getting HYPED!	
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They've just scheduled maintenance in 20 mins for the PvE realm. Hopefully it'll work after that.
 
If you want to play right now, try the PvP realm.
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			This launch has nothing on the ArcheAge launch	
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MMOs with lots of servers is an outdated design... GW2 is a perfect example of a megaserver. It has shards that can expand and come online as needed and never cause any downtime for anyone. Wildstar, like most newer MMOs, is most likely using a similar feature and frankly it would take them 15 min to bring up an new server if they wanted by why? Who wants tons of servers with the population unable to interact... That is the point of the megaserver design... to let everyone play together. I admit GW2 is a master of this design and refuses to share their DB design but it is beautiful how it runs. I dont think Wildstar runs that well but there should be no need for a ton of servers even with high populations now days.
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Fair enough, you're 100% right, I don't know how MMO networks work. Thanks for the little lesson. I'm not being sarcastic either, these things genuinely interest me.
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			I could create my character for some reason and im in, but yes they announced a maintenance.
			
				
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This launch has nothing on the ArcheAge launch
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			 I played closed beta and enjoyed it, now it doesn't work so i can't enjoy it. The creation bug may be a bucket of cold water for many people, and comments like go play another game if you don't like it make many do just about that and never come back. On the topic of bad launches, and not only f2p games, just imagine that you buy a new car and the engine doesn't start. You would not wait patiently and happily few days for the company to fix it. This gives companies a bad name to release broken products and remember, that you get only one chance to make a good first impression. Not to mention Youtube streamers, who will spread the word about the game beeing not playable.	
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			I guess no one realises that this is to get all the new players to populate Warhound =D	
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 I played closed beta and enjoyed it, now it doesn't work so i can't enjoy it. The creation bug may be a bucket of cold water for many people, and comments like go play another game if you don't like it make many do just about that and never come back. On the topic of bad launches, and not only f2p games, just imagine that you buy a new car and the engine doesn't start. You would not wait patiently and happily few days for the company to fix it. This gives companies a bad name to release broken products and remember, that you get only one chance to make a good first impression. Not to mention Youtube streamers, who will spread the word about the game beeing not playable.
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This issue is only affecting Entity PVE megaserver please give them ample time to fix problems.
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 :D.
 
Trust me I know the frustration. Sometimes when I work on a game or a program it crashes for hours on end and there really is no reason why it should crash. Testing and entry point isolation sometimes causes issues because bugs crop up from the strangest places.
 
For example; one time while working on a game in the Unreal 4 engine, a door wouldn't open. The code works, on other test maps it works. In the editor it works. Every time I did a test build, the door stopped working and it wouldn't open. After beating my head against the wall for literally 5 hours, I found the culprit.
 
I had a variable that occupied the same memory space as what the door was referencing. A calculator I had open in Unreal Engine was sending a '0' to an address which shared the same mem space as the door OPEN/CLOSE ( 1 or 0 ) Boolean check. A simple garbage collection and dynamic memory adjustment.. bam, door works. Problem solved.. but seriously.. one small little thing and everything just stops some times.
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			Character is created as maintenance is scheduled, GREAT.... at least my character was made finally... *goes off to play Killing Floor 2*	
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Here is my problem with the two:
 
Unreal is a game engine made by people who make games. They know what is needed and know what isn't. They add in the functions they use/used to create the games we play.
 
Unity is a game framework made by a software company. They just make a framework and don't actually make games. They make isolated test demo's to feature case new additions.
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Character is created as maintenance is scheduled, GREAT.... at least my character was made finally... *goes off to play Killing Floor 2*
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UE4 is so much better than Unity ATM it's ridiculous.
 
Spent a whole day this week rolling between versions trying to fix a problem that was introduced in their latest major rev. Having the source is such a major advantage when it comes to bullshit bugs.
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			I guess it goes to show how much interest people have in Wildstar but it's still a bit disappointing that I haven't been able to get in yet. I loved the beta so I'm sticking this out. :ph34r:	
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TOILET BRUSH, on 29 Sept 2015 - 02:41 AM, said:TOILET BRUSH, on 29 Sept 2015 - 02:41 AM, said:
Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
It's one thing to wait in a queue with a light at the end of the tunnel, it's another to have no hope of a fix and left in the dark for 3 hours.
 
Wildstar takes the cake as the worst launch ever.
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Here is my problem with the two:
 
Unreal is a game engine made by people who make games. They know what is needed and know what isn't. They add in the functions they use/used to create the games we play.
 
Unity is a game framework made by a software company. They just make a framework and don't actually make games. They make isolated test demo's to feature case new additions.
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Welp. They just lost about 5k potential players from this horrible launch.
 
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Hi everyone.
Can someone tell me if my problem has anything to do with the character creation being bugged, please?
 
I played only in early Beta and now logged in today to see that I have "1 of 2 character slots in use".
Logged into all servers (PVE/PVP on every region) to see if maybe an old beta character still existed, but no character exists and the slot is still taken.
 
Since I haven't been able to make a character yet it could maybe be a display error?
Anyone else having these issues?	
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Hi everyone.
Can someone tell me if my problem has anything to do with the character creation being bugged, please?
 
I played only in early Beta and now logged in today to see that I have "1 of 2 character slots in use".
Logged into all servers (PVE/PVP on every region) to see if maybe an old beta character still existed, but no character exists and the slot is still taken.
 
Since I haven't been able to make a character yet it could maybe be a display error?
Anyone else having these issues?
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			Got this issue while trying to make characters on Jabbit(PVE EU), stuck on "Enter Game".	
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			IT's BACK!!! can confirm on Entity, decided to make another alt to try stalker..... hour glass, 20min waiting after "Enter Game" nothing......	
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As the saying goes 'you only get one chance to make a first impression' and the impression that lots of new F2P players will have is that they are unable to make a character. This will probably mean lots will uninstall the game without bothering trying it.
 
Seems a bit ridiculous to market the game, make a great trailer, but then for people to be unable to actually play the game. It renders anything you have done to make the game into a f2p game totally redundant. There are many f2p MMOs of lesser quality but that doesn't matter if people can't discover that for themselves.	
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			Nothing happens after I click "enter game", I'm a new player. I hope this will be fixed soon, I can't wait to try WildStar. :)	
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			Cant create char !  ... Click enter game > hourglass .. waiting  ... and nothing happens	
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			God job ncsoft, 7 hour and sill not fixed this problem, no comment.	
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Just go now. I honestly don't seeing this being fixed for another few hours. I think they need to restart the server, but refuse to because there's so many people currently playing and would rather keep their experience swell rather than aiding us.
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Sits through que...passed it...create char... click enter game....nothing
 
I thought it has been fixed ?
 
- Entity PVE Realm NA -
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by uhruhri	
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Just a heads up for the devs: this issue is still persisting both before and after the hotfix this morning. Previous to the hotfix I sat in the screen for an extended time period (upwards of ten minutes) waiting for it to load and eventually it did go through. After the hotfix I decided I wanted to try a different character and I have sat waiting for over 20 minutes now and it doesn't appear to be making any progress. Thank you for your continued diligence, from what I have played so far I am enjoying this game and look forward to everything working as intended. Keep it up!
 
Until then I'll be playing Pheonix Wright and making sure my game doesn't time out :P
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Toby Foxx	
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			I am still having this problem - try to create a character on "Entity" and the client just goes to an hourglass after clicking "Enter Game".	
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			I was able to log in after about a 40 min queue and the character I created last night but never got to log in with was there already saved. Entered the game fine, experienced a little combat and interactivity lag/delay but the character creation and login issue from last night was resolved for me. Sorry to hear it is still happening to others.	
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I have tried a few times now, tried closing and reopening, running in windows 8 compatibility mode (needed to do this to get launcher to work with the PTR client for open beta), also tried again after it disconnected after inactivity. Stuck at character creation, have an hourglass/ "frozen" client after selecting enter game.  
 
Still a problem with US Entity/PVE... just an update from another eager, hopefully soon to be, player. 	
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			So, almost 24hrs after they said they would fix it.. I'm having trouble making my first chara. I waited 6 hrs for this game to download.. Usually 800-1k kb/s for my downloads.. 6 *cupcake* hours.. And now I've been waiting another hour just to even enter the game. >.> I understand the entire "First day of f2p" thing, but seriously.. No other game was this bad on f2p first day release..
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Drena	
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So, almost 24hrs after they said they would fix it.. I'm having trouble making my first chara. I waited 6 hrs for this game to download.. Usually 800-1k kb/s for my downloads.. 6 *cupcake* hours.. And now I've been waiting another hour just to even enter the game. >.> I understand the entire "First day of f2p" thing, but seriously.. No other game was this bad on f2p first day release..
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			Get stuck making a character, then booted out due to inactivity and put back in the queue again. Entity server. Numerous times this morning. Husband made his character fine.	
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			Happening to me. Trying to create a Domi character and voila, hourglass!	
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So I don't know if I got lucky or happened up a possible workaround for this issue. Last night after the launch I tried to make a new character ...on a whim, plus I wanted to see if there were any new changes made to the creation process. Very nice and smooth creation steps you guys got here now, but I digress. I went thru the whole process of making and tweaking a new Aurin Esper right up thru giving her a name. I then clicked the "enter game" button and watched the mouse cursor turn into an hourglass while the game did nothing.
 
At this point the game appeared to have froze on me as well I saw no way to get back to my character list to go play one of my old characters. I did a task manager force shutdown of the Wildstar process since I knew you guys were going to be doing a restart of the servers from your twitter feed. I let you guys do your thing with the servers, watched the new totally awesome Wildstar: Reloaded launch video a couple times and then restarted my game when I saw the tweet that the servers were back up for NA. I logged into Entity where my current 6 old characters were waiting for me and I got a surprise ...there was my new lvl 1 Aurin Esper sitting on my character list below my other two Exiles. :D
 
Now I didn't test this to confirm this will work every time seeing as I wanted to make changes to the new esper already so I started a brand new creation but this time I didn't have to force quit the game cuz it loaded my new character in right away so this may or may not be a workaround if you are having trouble getting a new character to load. All I can say is this is what happened to me so perhaps it will work for others
 
tl;dr ...possible workraroud; create character, click play, when game doesn't load new character, force quit the game thru task manager. restart game and mebbe ur new character will be there waiting to play :D 	
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So I don't know if I got lucky or happened up a possible workaround for this issue. 
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tl;dr ...possible workraroud; create character, click play, when game doesn't load new character, force quit the game thru task manager. restart game and mebbe ur new character will be there waiting to play :D
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tl;dr ...possible workraroud; create character, click play, when game doesn't load new character, force quit the game thru task manager. restart game and mebbe ur new character will be there waiting to play :D
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			Well if a server reboot is the only way to fix it, then I have an extra 20 level 1 characters waiting lol	
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			So much for a good second impression	
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same isssue after waiting 1.30h in login que very nice...
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	Edited September 29, 2015 by Cavello	
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Happening to me. Trying to create a Domi character and voila, hourglass!
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			Finnaly, 20 min later after i turn the game off and on, char creation said some one has that name..oook ..then have to wait again so i turn the game off and on e voilà, the char is there woohoo happy times!	
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			Anybody ese getting NpLogin error 4?	
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			yes patch server down 	
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I tried creating characters multiple times last night, they were not there when the servers came back up today. I tried again this morning, got the hourglass, killed the client.
Waited about an hour in the queue and still no new character when I finally got to character select.
Tried creating another character and got the hourglass again.
 
I'm going to stop trying until there's a dev post or tweet stating that it's fully resolved.
 
Also, if Mentok is correct and this is because of population balance and not a bug, please let us know.	
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			Yupp, after rebooting the game I`m now stuck at "Retrieving Account Information"	
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			never play on patchday <3 xD	
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			Indeed	
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I'm having this problem on both EU servers.
 
Really dissapointing.	
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			There is almost a 4-hour wait for the NA PvE server. lol . At least a bunch of people want to play, but this is why I'm stuck at character creation. Can't make a character right away if there is close to 4 hours to wait time to get onto the server. 	
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Made it in! I shut the game down after the login server crash, waited for the issue to get fixed, got put in queue and once I was able to access my account, my new character was sitting there. Woot! ^.^ Not sure how long it will last but I,m gonna go enjoy it for now.
 
I hope everyone else manages to create their characters too <3	
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			As of now, it's been 11 hours since I began the download. 5 hours since I launched the game to create my character. Like I said in a previous post, I understand that there WILL be issues due to it being the first day of f2p.. But this is beyond a joke now. I just hope the painful wait is worth it. Is it? Not trying again until tomorrow, by which time I kinda expect a smooth login.	
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			Well couldn't get on yesterday at launch... now it is the same issue -_- I wonder if they are even trying to fix this and why the heck there are only two server? This is the best way to turn away potential players you know.
			
				
	Edited September 29, 2015 by Lotus Prime	
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I am disappointed: i wanted to try this game and its two days I can't even create a character never mind playing.
I hope it will be solved soon, new players like me will not wait forever to try a game.	
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			So character creation still doesn't work... after 10 hours of trying and 3 downtimes, that's a downer. Really wanted to try this one out, but that's kind of hard when you can't actually create a character.	
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I don't know if this will work for anyone else but:
 
I tried making a character and got the usual hourglass thing. But instead of quitting I just let it stand there while watching some stuff on youtube. After some time it suddenly launched me into the game. 
 
Don't know if this will work for anyone else. But it appears to me that they requeue you into the world when you make a new character? Definitely has to be fixed, but perhaps it is worth waiting if you really want to get into the game. 	
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			Not working on EU PvE server :( Stuck when i hit enter game....... :-(	
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After clicking 'Enter Game' should we just let it sit there? I don't want to close the game just to have to sit through that queue again.
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I tried making a character and got the usual hourglass thing. But instead of quitting I just let it stand there while watching some stuff on youtube. After some time it suddenly launched me into the game. 
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I tried that several times today, waited for 30+ minutes every time but nothing ever happened.
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Not working on EU PvE server :( Stuck when i hit enter game....... :-(
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A que to get in and a que to create a character :D
Really no worse than Archeage who purposely locked down character creation of specific classes in addition to the 4hr wait que. Was just hoping this would be a bit better. Maybe it will be a bit better at midnight when most of you go to bed.	
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			wanted something to do while waiting for WoW:Legion, but i guess that will have to wait a little bit longer, guess ill just watch some anime or play smite or something for the time being	
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			Can't create a character.. get the never ending hour glass after I pick a name and hit 'enter game'.. guess this is not an uncommon issue?	
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			I just logged in, zero queue time, my character that I was previously unable to create, was in my character list, it somehow made it in one of my few attempts... I was able to log right into game, left room for a minute, came back into the servers going down for maintenance. Progress is being made.	
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			Same wanted to start fresh and make a new character and stuck after hitting enter game :(	
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			Also stuck at the character creation screen, waiting to enter game.	
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[. . .] Maybe it will be a bit better at midnight when most of you go to bed.
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			Yep, this is still a problem, avoid making new characters or god forbid delete your current character to remake. Because thankfully the character deletion is working ;)	
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			I love how some people are saying it's not a big deal, relax. I re-subbed so I could play again. I have no interest in playing toons I left a year ago. This is not a 'little' glitch, we can't make characters to play the game.. HELLO! Even some of the worst launches I've ever experienced I was able to at the very least make a character, maybe I couldn't log in for days, at least I could look at my toon. :P	
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			Yeah, what's going on with character creation?	
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			They relaunched yesterday and they still haven't fixed the Character Creation? This company is completely unprofessional, they have yet to fix a game breaking bug in their game after all those maintenance's they threw at us. Get your shit together already and fix this, every otherr bug is nothing compared to the Character Creation bug, get your priorities straight.
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Velsham	
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			I'm a bit confused.  I've been reading this thread, and the devs have said that in NA it's only affecting the PVE server?  Than why am I getting the problem on the PvP server, Warhound?	
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			So do we just sit at the "enter game" screen and let it disconnect??	
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			Still a problem.  I know its a "launch day," but this is the biggest cluster of unpreparedness I have ever experienced in a launch or expansion.  	
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			Stuck at enter after character creation.  Just have an hour glass.  Thinking about uninstalling.  Isn't the game over a year old?  I'm on the PVP server so the company was incorrect when saying it was just on the pve server.   
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by DoomVegan	
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Stuck at enter after character creation.  Just have an hour glass.  Thinking about uninstalling.  Isn't the game over a year old?  I'm on the PVP server so the company was incorrect when saying it was just on the pve server.   
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Hey Everyone -
 
We are doing everything we can to fix this issue - it's our highest priority even. We've been working on some internal fixes, but there's still no ETA at this time.	
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			Still a problem on the us pve server. Been trying all day to make a Dommie toon to run with a coworker who decided to play after the F2P switch. Sad that he was able to make his toons while me a sub can't. At least I can log in to my two toons on the exile side, but would like to play with my friend and show him the game.
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Meithar	
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Hey Everyone -
 
We are doing everything we can to fix this issue - it's our highest priority even. We've been working on some internal fixes, but there's still no ETA at this time.
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			Yep just ran into the same problem on Warhead im a new to Wildstar so cant play at all until this is fixed :-(	
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			glad to know i am not the only one that cant make a toon	
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			can't connect to patcher now. anyone else?	
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			still busted. ugh	
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Hey Everyone -
 
We are doing everything we can to fix this issue - it's our highest priority even. We've been working on some internal fixes, but there's still no ETA at this time.
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			... Well, uh, that's obnoxious. I've just tried creating the same toon twice in a row.	
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			Jebus why is it still down? Good lord Carbine wave your magical wand and fix this asap, I wanna do things to my pink Chua!	
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			hrm I got stuck on making a warrior clicked the launch button and seemed to just lag out/freeze.  Alt-F4'd and came back to run something else and warrior was there made and ready to roll.  lag spikes in game however made it an utter pain to actualy try and play.  so im checkin off an on with that.	
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OK I fave found a way to create a charter even when it is stuck at  the OK button.
 
Hit that there OK / Accept button and the LET IT TIME OUT (kick you for being AFK)
then log back and good to go, your charter is created.	
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OK I fave found a way to create a charter even when it is stuck at  the OK button.
 
Hit that there OK / Accept button and the LET IT TIME OUT (kick you for being AFK)
then log back and good to go, your charter is created.
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			It doesn't really time you out for being afk that I've found.	
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OK I fave found a way to create a charter even when it is stuck at  the OK button.
 
Hit that there OK / Accept button and the LET IT TIME OUT (kick you for being AFK)
then log back and good to go, your charter is created.
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			Unplayable atm...  Got in and the lag is so horrendous you can't even open things in your inventory or equip new items without waiting 30 secs for the action to complete......	
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OK I fave found a way to create a charter even when it is stuck at  the OK button.
 
Hit that there OK / Accept button and the LET IT TIME OUT (kick you for being AFK)
then log back and good to go, your charter is created.
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To give more info I'm on the pvp server and work 2 times for me. I will try it on the pve server then up date Give an Update,
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OK I fave found a way to create a charter even when it is stuck at  the OK button.
 
Hit that there OK / Accept button and the LET IT TIME OUT (kick you for being AFK)
then log back and good to go, your charter is created.
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This doesn't work for me. None of the characters I've created since around six hours ago have shown up. And I continue to get disconnected for inactivity after about 15-20 minutes of watching the hourglass spin.
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			Just trying to start to play myself and also getting stuck at the Enter Game button on both the PvP and PvE realms	
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I use some random names it might be cuz your name is taken its still work'n 4 me
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			Bah disappointment.  Both servers hang at creation.  Maybe try EU I guess	
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			i wanted to try it today =( seems like the problem hasnt been solved	
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Well, looks like I have a bone to pick with whoever took the name 'Zxkthjgxvc Tgksxtlbv" before I could get to it
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			just want to say that im also stuck at character creation, encase you need to know who is stuck.	
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Rawr! Hi everyone! I hope you're all doing well since the original launch. I'm back to my aurin self after all this time, and really excited to play again, but I have to create like, most of my characters and can't. :( Sooooo, I figured I should probably post something here to let Carbine know. Hehe.
 
If it helps, I'm trying to recreate characters that were deleted, so maybe it's wipe related? Dunno if this is happening to newbies as well, but hopefully I can recreate all my deleted lovelies tomorrow evening. 'Night y'all!
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Lorixia	
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I was able to create a character earlier today. It seems like if your character is in queue while the servers are shut down, they'll pop up in your character list once you log back in. I'm trying to make another one right now, a Draken warrior that will most likely become my main character as I fell in love with his grumpy lil' face. It's stubornly refusing to go through but I will not give up! This character needs to happen, he's just way too awesome. No, seriously, you should see him. It's the right mix of "I hate you so much right now" and "I don't care enough to kill you... but I totally could".
 
If it doesn't happen tonight, I'll just keep trying first thing tomorrow.	
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			Quick update: the character I made over six hours ago has finally appeared on my character list, 12 minutes before bed! Well, maybe I can run around a little bit and experience this new lag everyone's raving about.	
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			I hope this gets fixed ASAP. Was really hoping to start playing last night. :(	
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Loving the game so far. Love the music playing in the character creation screen. Watching the hourglass flicker and counting how many times it does is a joy.
 
Graphics are really impressive. My character is gorgeous while I stare at him until he magically disappears after being times out.
 
A++++ game for sure.  :P	
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archeage is poooo so is skyforge was founder on both
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Hmmm, this makes me wonder which version of my character will end up getting created, assuming it just needs time to pop up. I decided to change his last name to something much better on the second try. If I end up with the first, less awesomesauce name, I'll have to recreate it.
 
I guess I'll go to bed and find out tomorrow.	
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My issue is this and one other thing..
 
3 or 4 of my characters that I created to get my names and appearances/class/path kind of figured out in the month before this launch are gone. I only have 4 characters now. 
So I can't make any characters and it seems only the few I did a couple quests on and advanced a little bit were kept and I'm not sure why.  :lol:	
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			I give this game a second chance and this is how I am rewarded a bug from one year ago that should have been fixed by now. Now don't get me wrong I understand issue like this happen but they (the game creators) should have seen that character creation and account authentication worked 100% before doing a Free to play launch (because of a mass influx of new players)  and worried about in-game hot-fixes as a secondary objective. at least the launch was better than the last WoW launch. what I don't get is "where looking into the issue" the issue is your game won't load new characters into the world. that tells me it is a issue with the new character scripting and coding which should be simple for your programmers to fix.....just saying	
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			Felpaw: Firstly, just because you give a game a second chance, doesn't mean you get rewarded. It was a choice you made then and now. Secondly, it's not that easy to just point and say "that's the issue". You need a why, a how and a what can be done to fix and prevent this in the future. As far as scripting and coding, I don't believe its either. If the fix was simple, I'm sure they would have fixed it by now. I'm completely positive that they aren't just sitting there, knowing what the issue is and how to fix it and just chilling, having a great time, laughing at the rush of bipolarized emotions on the forums. It's never easy and until its fixed, we all need a little patience.
			
				
	Edited September 30, 2015 by Azuruleus	
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			So, literally no one can make a new character at this moment in time?	
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So, literally no one can make a new character at this moment in time?
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			A character I attempted to make hours ago finally showed up.  Deleted him because he was stupid looking and had a stupid name.  Can't recreate now.  Grr.	
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			I started playing ESO a month prior to the B2P launch and that was virtually flawless. Played for a month before the switch to being able to purchase the game and be able to play. Had no issues aside from some lag in high populated newbie areas, which were easy to avoid. I know that F2P launches are different, however they're not that much different. I just wanted to try out WildStar for a different MMO to play with my friends and alas, here we are. Unable to create characters on the Entity realm. Epic nice.	
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			Yeah, alright.  ESO sucks.  Your point?	
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Yeah, alright.  ESO sucks.  Your point?
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			Bump because haven't seen any staff response in a number of hours and I'm just curious if there are any updates?	
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			Wed, 09/30, 12:15am PST: Still getting stuck at the end of character creation...	
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			IM IN FINALLY!!!! 1hr after trying mind you....	
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Bump because haven't seen any staff response in a number of hours and I'm just curious if there are any updates?
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IM IN FINALLY!!!! 1hr after trying mind you....
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			After my black screen I alt+f4 and had 4 different characters up. After deleting 3 of them, I am now at what I am assuming is the pregame cutscene. Swagguh	
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			Character I tried to create earlier finally showed up.  I guess the servers are just super overloaded.	
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It's a great and famous game going F2P. OF COURSE there would have been issues. I can't even imagine how many people are playing it right now.
 
Personally, i couldn't create the character for several hours, i was finally able to but then i got stucked in the loading menu after the first cutscene.	
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			Char creation should be working now, or very little problem.	
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