I've been having a similar problem all week. I can get to the game's title screen, but when I click "Start" or "Data Centre", I see the "connecting to data centre" for a minute or two before I get the error message: "the lobby server has encountered an error" and the number "2002".

Oddly, Steam hasn't been accessible this week either, which makes me think that it might be something at my end, but since I'm using the same setup I've used since I started the game when ARR was released, I doubt it.

Otherwise, everything on my computer works perfectly: general web browsing, Skype, TeamSpeak, e-mail, and any other game or program I have installed. It's frustrating, but I have no idea how to fix it.

Is it too much to ask just to be able to play the game I've subscribed to, and have played with no problem for years now?