No that is definitely not normal. I suspect something is getting stuck. The full log file will be useful, please, as well as confirming your version numbers of base-game and Afterlife
#Game loads for an hour and a half (Thats how long i waited my friend had the game load 2 hours)
jolly robin
Most common fault in the last few days/since release of 1.4 base-game is not rolling back to 1.3, which is the latest version AL supports