Creating a new character has some issues right now.
Customized a new character, (tauren shaman, not a class trial).
Selected a starting area (Red Rock Mesa).
The finish button greyed out once pushed and nothing happened. I pushed ‘back’ and tried again, this time getting the error that the character name already exists (it didn’t before). I went back to the character select screen and it locked up, with a constant message of ‘retrieving character list’. I force quit the game.
Logging back in to the game, I found the character I tried to make in my character list, but he’s naked. Thinking this is just a visual issue and it hasn’t fetched his gear yet, I logged in. He has no gear.
This is also not unique, as two of my family tried to do the same thing, with the same results.
Update: the issue appears to be fixed. Created 4 characters without any issue.
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Something similar happened to me today. I tried to create a character, got the error described above, and now the name shows as taken even though it showed as available before.
Unlike the OP though, the character was not created and isn’t on my character list even after a relog. Moreover, now I can’t create any new characters on that realm (creation on other realms works like normal). When I try to create a character on the realm, after selecting a starting zone and pressing finish, nothing happens for several seconds, until finally I get a popup saying “Error creating character.”
Update: all the characters I attempted to create finally appeared on my list about 36 hours later. Not sure if I did anything to prompt it or if they just needed time to process.
same here… it’s been going on since 12 hours ago…
Exact same as OP. Been happening nearly 24 hrs now. Server isn’t full, and as a newer player I am well below the max character limit. A Guildie tried it on a different server and it worked fine for him.
Guess I’m not the only one. Opened a ticket, wasn’t helpful. They just sent me to articles about too many characters even though I am well below the maximum.
It’s been happening to me now for 2 days. I tried to create a new character and it said I already had the maximum characters, so I deleted a few minor characters and it still said I had too many.
It’s not fixed. Still happening to me. I tried to create a new character today and nothing happened, but the game froze up and I had to ctrl tab out of it