I do too. Due to the servers being down due to the patch Its fine on your end, technically. They need to get the server up and running. Server status is displayed on the top of the main forums page
you came to the forums to post that..... with the names of EVERY server at the top of the page with RED letters that say MAINT and it didn't occur to you that the servers might be down.... wow
if people would open their eyes, jsut a little bit most questions are allready answered. and yes before i make a post especially about something being broken with the information just a few lines above where they had to click to even make the post in BIG RED LETTERS
A server being down does not automatically translate to a black screen after launching the game. Thats why people come here to ask for confirmation. Most games actually do launch and show that the server is offline, but thats another design flaw of SOE.
Now the servers are "LOCKED" and normally I'm at least able to go to character selection screen. I hadn't black screens before
God this reminds me so much of the old SWG days...sometimes servers would be down for better than a day without any updates.