I tried to start the game up when I saw that maintenance was over, but I'm getting the same problem that I would if the server was down. A little box comes up with one word in english that says launcher. I'm running it as an admin. and I know the servers are up because my roommate is able to play with no problems. I also tried to go into the game folder and use the exe directly but that doesn't work either. Does anyone know what may be the issue?

Could you make a screenshot and post it? :)

i have the same problem

mine says initialize failed

this is the box i get, assuming it's the same for OP.

I'm getting this error O_o