And here we are over 12 hours later and only getting worse.. What do SE have to say about it you say? Nothing, just the same damn message "Recovery" During the time below, we experienced network technical difficulties on the North American data centres.
Users may have experienced the following issues as a result of this, but services can now be used normally.

[Date & Time]
Jul. 4, 2017 19:35 to 19:37 (GMT)
Jul. 4, 2017 20:35 to 20:37 (BST)

[Details]
Players may have experienced the following issues:
・Disconnected from NA Data Centre Worlds
・Difficulty logging in to NA Data Centre Worlds
・Difficulty accessing and sending and receiving data from NA data centres

Yea... No. We can't return to play as normal and it's not fixed.

Thanks for being of no help whatsoever.