[2022] North American server: Characters not loading

3/31/2022 a little after 8 p.m. EST. Experiencing extremely long character load screens on PC North American server. My sibling is also having same problem. In fact, characters loading seems to be infinite, as characters have not loaded. Get successful account log-in to character selection screen, then select character, the "requesting character load" goes on and on and on, without character loading.

Edit:
- Now can't get account log-in on North American server.
- On EU server, account log-on and character selection work. All guildmates on EU server report no problems.