I bought this game yesterday and wasn't able to go online so i started playing in offline mode, hoping this would transfer over to online later. So this morning as i logged in, i now can connect to the servers but i don't have any characters. This means that there are seperate characters for online and offline mode.

So i am now trying to create a new online character but i get this error after filling in my name and clicking create:

"Game service timeout: Your connection with the game service timed out"

My offline characters aren't as important as the online ones, so when can i expect to get going?