Lobby Server / Worlds (NA) unable to populate

Okay, boys and girls, I won't rant about your inability to plan for these things even though you've had a wee bit over a year to consider the possibilities but I'm really getting tired of it.

Currently I'm getting NA worlds unable to populate and the infamous, "Lobby server connection has encountered and error" 2002
Then instantly booted out.

What the Heck? You DO want this game to succeed, right?

same issue here

Same. Resisting the urge to b*tch and just wondering what (if anything) is going on? Servers crash?

I'm pretty sure everyone is getting the issue, and I suggest upmost patience in the problem being solved. I would say this was to be expected from game release but that would just be White Knight speak.

Just calm down and wait, besides, I'm sure everyone has other things to do.

Have the same problem here.

Same. "Unable to update the Group NA/EU character list." and "Unable to obtain the World list." for NA/EU World Selection.

Same here 2002 and unable to update

Same, can't connect.

ya same issue as OP

Me too, not only I had to pay an extra 15$ for the CE content wich I bought and didn't receive I can't enter the server. Great, just great...

I've tried several different times to log, it's giving me both 2002 error and 9000 error. Honestly, I've only got to log into the game and play once... and that was yesterday. And Right in the middle of my fight doing a main storyline quest, I was booted from the game. Everyday, I spend good 3-4 hours trying to log in, unsuccessfully. And I am really getting tired of waisting time. If this was a brand new game franchise or if it was a brand new game, I would give them that benefit of the doubt. But come on SE has been in this MMORPG business way too long to have this kind of server issues... We didn't even have this problem in 1.0. Honestly, why will I pay for a game that I am unable to even log into? I don't want to start a bi*ch or anything... and turn it in to a rant. I'm just saying, it's really frustrating, especially coming from SE. Not having forseen this many people could log in... and it just seems like, they just didn't prepared for just in case.

same thing here, cant load na/eu worlds or characters ; ;

Well the workaround (for those with a PC) to the 2002 error is to right click on the launcher and select it as "Run as Administrator". That will get you the ability to have a non-greyed out Start button and to the world screens.
BUT it doesn't change that the NA/EU worlds will not load on the list. That's something internal with SE. There was a small patch that has suddenly caused this issue and it's my understanding that right now it's not even being addressed because enough haven't reported it and it's on the NA/EU side of things.

Best solution? Roll on a JP server (which defeats the point I believe) but at least it let's you play this amazing game!

Guess Its time to take advantage of the Double exp weekend.

on Everquest 1 and 2 or just do FFXI

Lobby server kicks was able to least mess with Lim'o town and alt chair and classes on JP servers

however US/EU servers are "Down"

Theirs the "Land of the Windy City" not far from hear
Competent IT people Abound... (many IT security /Hacker /Anti-hacker contract offers, )and home to many game devs, Including the MK team --{{Mortal Kombat}}--

Least if their were a Chicago DC , as well my ping times would be from 240 MS or longer to 60ms or less. as Indianapolis /Chicago are Major Network peer points.

was in an instance, then got booted out, after getting back to lobby I get the same errors, "unable to load NA servers" after that I can't login due to the infamous 1017 Server full error. Guess it's time to find something else to play.

I don't have anything else to do, it's my three day weekend, and was gonna play. Guess I'll watch my neighbor paint his house and the drying process.

All I get when I try to log into a world is the cosmic blue background. I can't even see the text to make a new character, select a world, or even what character I have already made. Just the cosmic blue background.

Its 2pm now and i cant log in i get the same thing as you.... have they replied?.

5 hours and counting, started with 1017 error without even loading the character screen (how exactly do you know the world is full if you can't select a character to login with?), and has since been unable to populate na/eu worlds.

Weee....

No better way to spend my day off than trying to log into a game I paid for.

I've said this in another post, if memory serves, but I'll say it here again in hopes that SOMEONE at SE is listening (fat chance).

I started my MMO life with FFXI (Hades ftw). I suppose I was lucky enough to come in at a point when the game was just past launch enough to be stable. I played years and can not remember a single time when I had issues with the game (other than its direction).

Fast forward to WoW's release (and a preemptive shut up, fanboy). Oh man were there issues. Loads! However, why is this a totally different situation? Because of one very simple fact: This is a RELAUNCH.

Allow me to explain how this all works. Company announces game > Company develops game > Company announces closed beta > Company uses information gathered from number of beta applicant to gauge interest (read future server load) > Game is available for preorder > Company again uses said information to gauge popularity (again read future server load) > Game goes into open beta > Game is released.

There are MULTIPLE times in the past two years where SE has had the opportunity to examine and make decisions on information they've collected, so to say anything like "They weren't expecting this to be as popular as it is" i simply naive. They knew full well the kind of server loading they'd be dealing with, unless there was some willful ignorance on their part, which I would not be at all surprised to find out.

So no, I do NOT have patience with SE on this. It's a complete and utter failure on their side to properly asses the data they had at hand.

same hear now i cant connect at all error 2002

was unabe to get us/eu servers or unable to connect now nada. nothing was bad now its out of the pan and into the fire.

This is just stupid , i wish they would do something about it to fix it, if it isnt 1 hour trying to log in, then they just close access to alot of us so we can't even try to log in...

I got lucky this morning, it only took 15-20 min of spamming 0 to get in. But this afternoon, trying to complete a quest line so I could dungeon with friends, I got disconnected (error 90000) then spent the next 2 hours trying to get back in (2002, 1017 and just not loading).

For those of you that running as admin worked, congrats! Unfortunately, I tried that multiple times, and it did nothing (start still greyed out). I even tried rebooting my computer. I suppose I should feel glad it didn't take me 5 hours to get in, but neither seems acceptable to me. It'd be one thing if I was placed in a 2 or 5 hour queue, but to actively have to try to get in for that amount of time is insanity. I seem to recall there being some games that give priority status to people that were disconnected--maybe by giving priority to anyone that was logged in less the 5 min ago? That may be a little much to hope for, but at least a larger queue?

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Originally Posted by DubiousDisk

Just calm down and wait, besides, I'm sure everyone has other things to do.

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Yes people probably do have other things they can do but that's not the point. People are trying to get access to something they have paid to have access to. I know it's launch, I know there will be issues. The problem is the lack of accurate information for all of the problems that people are having at the moment. It feels like we're being given the run around and that really sucks.