Exact same thing here and kinda glad i'm not the same experiencing it.
About 45 mins ago, it went past server list but was getting stuck at "Loading character data"
and now it doesn't load up server list and gives me connection lost, please check Internet connection/Firewall settings...
I even tried closing my Firewall altogether, and been playing game all day with 0 issues.
Hours when I started having the issues would be around 1 am ( Eastern USA time )
i know it's not my internet, as i'm also on another online MMO at this perticular moment ( like I was all day, alt-tabbing both )
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Tigerstorm" (Dec 18th 2016, 7:55am)