I didn't have this problem thankfully but I wanted to put this here in case anyone who HAS. It was on a twitter feed.

@HopeWithinChaos
<BLEEP> you Final fantasy 14. you deleted all of my characters, and Character Creation for ALL SERVERS IS LOCKED!?

@HopeWithinChaos
For the first time since launch, I'm able to sign in. and the characters I made are all gone. all of them. and i can't make new ones.

Someone showed me this. Has ANYONE had this problem at all? I hadn't but I thought I'd put this up here since I don't think they can post on the forums. Has anyone signed in and found their character(s) completely deleted after suffering so many Error 1017s, Error 90000s, Error 2002, etc?