yes - "Requesting character load..." fails most of the time. eso support has had me trying everything under the sun. I'm not convinced that it's on the client side.
I've been unable to log all the way in since yesterday. PC/NA, and I've tried both with and without a VPN. Restarted my machine and tried again several times, same results. The launcher accepts my user name and password, then I get stuck in endless loadscreens and never make it to character select. Sadface. Ideas, anyone?