Unable to click "start" button

[Taelor]

Meh, I can hit start right now (although I have seen the problem you describe). At this point I can't see the NA/EU list.

[Lil_Burrito]

I'm able to hit start but once I go into the character selection screen nothing loads up at all no menu's, no buttons, no character. I think they're rebooting all the servers and just adding the new ones now, there is no need to waste time keeping the others running when and delaying the process even longer. I doubt it'll be back up today, possibly tomorrow morning.

[LessLoveLess8]

I'm able to hit start but once I go into the character selection screen nothing loads up at all no menu's, no buttons, no character. I think they're rebooting all the servers and just adding the new ones now, there is no need to waste time keeping the others running when and delaying the process even longer. I doubt it'll be back up today, possibly tomorrow morning.

this is due to the fact that the server is trying to load that information for you. What im confused about is why that kind of info is not kept offline >.<

[dopplereffex]

I can sometimes click the "start" button, but then once I am in my characters do not show up or I can't select my server or it just doesn't load... SE has some serious server issues to fix. They must of thought no one was going to buy their game. Definitely not happy, but we will see what SE does to fix that.

[Raist]

The lobby system and such are experiencing intermittent connectivity/response issues. Traces to them are sometimes stalling en-route or otherwise just taking a long time to respond. I've submitted a ticket with my particular netstat/trace results... but that team is off today. Posted something about it here, but it keeps scrolling off the front page, so I don't know if it's gotten through to them or not.

Hopefully the bulk of this will go away after they put in new hardware and reconfig things tomorrow night.