Same issue here. I can get past the launcher (painfully slow, stays black awhile), I can click "Start", it sits on "Connecting To Server" forever and then boots me with a "Error 2002, The lobby server connection has encountered an error." The one time that I did get to the character screen I promptly got 90k'd. -__-;

NA Server -> Gilgamesh.

Also noticing that the forums/lodestone are super slow/unresponsive and are sometimes taking multiple refreshes to get content to display.