The game is paused always

I just start enter charcter and it's paused.. ican not move.. it's like server issue

And the loading screen take forever

Same. POE 2 is currently unplayable. Long load screen and then kicked to title screen with "An unexpected disconnection occurred"

before you login try changing your gateway to one that is closer to you. Its under one of tabs in the options menu. I found that leaving it on auto would put me in a non optimal gateway and would cause lag. I changed mine to one near me and i have no lag or game pausing issues anymore.

I'm having the same sort of issue. I assumed it was everyone, but I guess not? I live in Wakayama, Japan. Every time I try to play on PS5, it just says "GAME PAUSED" at the bottom forever. Occasionally, it will un-paused long enough for me to take a few steps and then kick me to the title screen. It's literally unplayable. When I play on PC it works fine though, which is really strange. I've tried changing servers on PS5, but all of them give me the same issue.

Also, for the record, my PC is super old and it's not a great experience on here. I'm only playing on steam until my PS5 version gets stable. Please still give me a refund for the PC version later. Haha XD