Same happening to me. There was an unexpected patch when I (attempted) launching the game an hour or so before this post. Two attempts at force verify did not resolve it. My guess is someone put the patch intended for preview into the live system instead. Preview launches just fine :D.
short version: 20Apr22 -> 23Dec22 247 day wait long version: listed 20Apr22 08:11:46 GMT 5000 zen bought 23Dec22 05:45:15 GMT 1098 zen 23Dec22 05:58:09 GMT 900 zen 23Dec22 06:06:43 GMT 1000 zen 23Dec22 06:19:28 GMT 50 zen 23Dec22 06:57:54 GMT 260 zen 23Dec22 07:21:09 GMT 800 zen 23Dec22 07:44:01 GMT 38 zen 23Dec22 08:00:05…
listed on 04Jun21 11:02:22 GMT 5000 zen bought on 20Apr22 15:33:32 GMT 610 zen 20Apr22 16:06:07 GMT 1100 zen 20Apr22 16:15:12 GMT 1000 zen 20Apr22 16:27:21 GMT 1100 zen 20Apr22 16:56:29 GMT 1190 zen
listed 15Feb21 08:56:36 GMT+1 800 zen bought 30Sep21 04:14:24 GMT+1 401 zen 30Sep21 04:27:01 GMT+1 399 zen @mamalion1234 at a guess, the first or second week of December for a 19Mar posted.
I forgot to post this a while back, requested 29 Dec 20, received 25 May 21. Some random data, zen requested on a day 67,077,634 24Feb21 67,313,570 26Feb21 68,985,189 09Mar21 69,176,442 14Mar21 69,100,749 19Mar21 69,604,000 29Mar21 I'm fairly sure immediately before the bonding bounty it was 49mill, i didn't write it down…
and the black death scorpion audio, "raargh" - 2 variants of that, and "chunk chunk" constantly out of combat. Maximum of 10 seconds of silence. In combat doesn't make a peep.