is anyone else unable to connect to lobby server?

[SinR]

seriously. If a Japanese datacenter were having the same problems Aether is, they'd have techs on it within minutes, and NUMEROUS reports of "we're working on it"

[Blamebot]

Unable to connect to Aether datacenter.

Did a tracert a few times from my IP to the US datacenter, and it looks like the packets are getting hung up in the Level3 center in Montreal (surprise!) with anywhere from 300- to 1500- ms. latency.

It's been almost two years, and yet Square still cannot fix this issue.

[ProfVukasin]

We should do everyone a favor and....I don't know, do something to that Level3 center. Completely worthless. It seems every time they get the bit of stress, they start to block anyone trying to connect to a server past them. Or however that works.

[SinR]

the silence from Squeenix isn't much of a surprise to me.

[Nysp]

Can't log in at all. I shouldn't have payed my sub until I knew the game was playable. I hope they give as an extra day or two of sub time to make up for it but I'm not holding my breath...

[AzraelX]

They are most likely working on the problem ... Lot of the west coast got out of work. If u keep trying I'll get past the lobby- I just did

[T2teddy]

For God's sake I can connect to every single data center except Aether, which naturally, is where my level 50s are...

[Zeil999]

Seems as though all NA datacenters are toast right now. I can connect to the JP datacenter just fine, but if I try any NA datacenter, 2002 error! I was on earlier today for hours. Only reason I logged off earlier was because the PS4 controller was running super low on juice. Shouldn't have logged off. >.<!

[T2teddy]

It's like a bad rerun of the fiasco of the 2013 launch of FFXIV:ARR
I never got to play a minute of that EA either.

[phatness2012]

I'm on coerul and I just keep getting a 2002 error I can't even change datacenters without it giving me that error code