I am also having the same problem, stuck on Now Processing. I was really looking forward to playing, after a very slow patching process. At least I got dishes washed and did some other housework. ;(

Edited to add:

PA's message said "We have confirmed that certain users who experienced the issue have accessed the game by restarting the client and reconnecting."

I did this before my original comment, and doing that didn't help. Any other workarounds?

Looks like I won't be playing at all tonight.

Same issue.

Tried Verify Integrity in Steam and Scan filies, no help.

Restarted client and PC several times, no help.

Been "processing" all day now.. Anyone get past this yet? it's been 4 hours now.

Did some of our character data not get transfered correctly? Is that why it doesn't go to character select?

I'd love to hear that someone eventually got passed the "processing"

UPDATE

I was just able to get into the game world. I didn't do anything differently. I just kept trying.

I actually just got in too. I did just notice on the launcher "top right" there's a little monitor icon that takes you to the "register PC" after registering my PC I got right in.

But apparently thats not really the fix, it was just the timing I guess.

I'm stuck at patching. Only goes to 1% then freezes in the launcher.