Just tried logging in again after having been booted from a duty while in game 18 hours ago on Ultros. No such luck again! Although according to the "news" post from SE, Ultros is supposed to be good to go. I am still not able to reach the lobby (error 2002)! I have seen completely blank screens character selection screen, missing NA/EU listings, error 90000, error 1017, among other error messages all day long. Very frustrating... Back to my other MMORPG for the meantime I guess.
I have pretty much come to the conclusion that my machine is not able to communicate with their machine because we're basically trying to communicate through what would typically be called a Denial of Service Attack (even though it is not one) with the thousands of concurrent players trying to connect.