Last time I played it was a bit lengthy, but not too bad. At the moment it's taking like 20 minutes for "loading animations" to complete, and last time it went through all the loading only to tell me the server was not available. Does anyone else have this problem?
Edit: I let it load for a bit longer, it was in the "loading zone" phase afaik, and it gave me an error saying that the Speed Tree Billboard Buffer or some such failed to be created, which inhibited me from clicking anything on my computer for some time before I managed to close the program.