I'm about 6 hours in, and it's crazy to me already that this game wasn't GOTY. There is no way TLOUS2 was this good of a game. The combat is just flat out amazing, crisp, and rewarding. The visuals are jaw dropping. Good story so far too.
The key to Wal-Mart is ordering it on the phone app. There is no captca bullshit on the app. That is where I used to always get hung up on when I tried on the website.
So the Aether Data Center is going to be labeled as congested till probably next year. Getting new world servers up isn't going to be happening anytime soon.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/ba568754f4b85880aa3a54d5b58770318d7ad731
They are partially to blame for this...