[penguin66]

I'm one of the ones that is having problems with the game freezing during loading, but today I can't even get the logon screen to load. I've been trying to deal with these issues for 5 days now and it seems as if the people in charge don't care because they are having no problems. It is obvious that there is an issue, and I know that you are going to say that it is the path that the connection takes to get to the game servers, BUT there are a lot of other people using different paths that are having the same connection issues. I have (as others have also stated) absolutely NO problems getting to any other website or online game. Also, with the number of people reporting issues in the forum and other places, if there were that many connection issues it would be news worthy.

Update: after several tries and over 5 minutes waiting, I was finally able to get the logon screen. Since game loading paused at step U-60 in loading (one of the places my game freezes) for several seconds, I don't have any hope that the game is going to cooperate with me being able to play effectively today.