Not only is it incredibly random to get past the splash screen, the game keeps minimizing itself to desktop. But when I finally did, the game thought it was the first time starting, and my character is no longer there. I put like 5 ingame hours into that character and its extremely disappointing that its no longer there. Please do something about this, because I'm about to get pissed.

Happened to me as well. Pretty awesome bug let me tell you what.

same thing happened for me

Samething just happened to me. Tried to connect to a game, I received a message about "connection status changed" or something, and I could no longer search for games. So I decide to restart the game and then BAM, no more character. This better be fixed or something, I spend 4 hours playing, kinda BS.