It's a Bumpy Rebirth

Definitely a rough start. Peppered throughout the leveling and questing are instanced encounters. There are so many people leveling that the instance manager, "Duty Manager", has been crashing. They've taken the servers down twice for emergency maintenance to no avail.

They are posting things. There was a Tweet a few minutes ago:

Yet when you click on the link it gives you:

So yeah. It's feeling like an unofficial fifth beta at the moment. Would really like to at least get a chocobo mount yet that requires a number of instances... *sigh*

Still won't be subbing at this point. Considering cancelling the pre-order. Maybe it will be more ready in a month. Or maybe a bulk of people will be done with the lower levels so it's easier to get going.