Stuck at 96% loading, game will not start

All servers are down according to a client......so.

Does this mean the server is down?

Verify your game files.

i validated game assets is still stuck at 96% loading screen hope there's a hotfix really quick...

im about 5 minutes away from calling my job to see if I can work on my day off!

Yep same here, restarting and validating game files doesn't help, game stuck at 96%

So we get a nerfdate, that has been delayed for AT LEAST 4-5 hours because they don't know how to update the servers,and when it is all over they just basically b*tch slap me with that 96%....


update: Now it's stuck at 97%..

Yep

Guys its not you its them............

Yep

It's normal. As in every forum, it's better to look for other threads before making new ones. Scanning the main page you would see other threads with the same thing, and a quick search would show you that it happens a lot.
https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?search/6007400/&q=Loading screen stuck 96%&o=date

Yup, same here...

Same issues. Painfully slow loading until it gets stuck at 96%

Same issue. Forced quit and restarted... still loading at 96%. GREAT PATCH!

Thank you. But as you can see, there were only 2 threads. Mine and another guy's which was made a month ago. So yeah, sorry.

Update: I'm in.

Mattherson VS. No membership.

Edit to update:

I'm out again. Disconnected form server.

Mine is %96.1 now. Huehuehuehuehuuheue

In! Running around for a bit! Disconnected!

Gonna be one of those days, huh?

I was stuck for a while also, finally got to the character selection screen but it says connery is unavailable
Y u do dis SOE

Edit: I tried again and now it says all servers are unavailable.

96% STRIKES AGAIN