I'm pretty sure I take back everything good I said about defiance.
After about 8 - 9 hours of servers being down for everyone, they came back on sometime around midnight EST. I logged in at about 2:20 am est, long enough to see that my character had been deleted, and after restarting the game the servers were back down.
Checked the defiance forums, its happening for everyone. Servers are down for at least all xbox 360 players, we all assume our characters are deleted for good. If, and thats a big If, the servers ever come back up, we would have to start over, and you can just tell how many people are extremely pissed off, aggravated, disappointed, and words can't even describe it.
Right now Defiance, as commercial software/ a video game, is disgusting. None of us will be able to get out money back on a game that we can't play/ havent been able to play. I understand an MMO is something hefty to maintain, and keep servers running. But this is just, I dont even know I'm at a loss for words.
I'm done bitching, heres the defiance support forums if you want to hear everyone else in the entire world who feels cheated out of 60 bucks also.
http://forums.defiance.com/forumdisplay.php?34-Defiance-Support