Sitting at "You Are Currently Logging In.."

[Scorch040]

Hi all,

I'm sure this has been posted to death, but I really need to ask, are there people who are actually playing the game?

I downloaded Lineage 2 on Thursday and have had nothing but problems with this game. I play Guild Wars and Aion, using the same NC Soft launcher with no problems, yet with Lineage 2 I get nothing but Gameguard errors, which seems to have resolved themselves, and now I am not able to log in.

The game sits at the "You are currently logging in" screen forever. I could let it sit there all day and I never get in. Obviously we can go through the 'reset modem, disable firewall' etc troubleshooting but I believe I have everything set properly.

Is there just that many people playing? Are the servers down? I keep checking the Announcements forum many times a day but it doesn't seem like the mods are posting anything at all.

Is there anyone who could share a little light on this?

Thanks in advance.