I got in finally, but then immediately disconnected with the error, "There was an authentication issue connecting to the world." Yet whenever I can't get log in like this, I check the world status and it shows UP and "high" population. Who are these people that are in the game??? US Live 1 minutes ago up high
Because there are still a LOT of Players logged into the game. Not everyone is experiencing the login-failures and the servers are still UP.
look into the bug sub forum. there are many postings about that sh** ... and the devs have noted it and will "take a look"