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To make a long story short… Mythic is having some ISP problems at the moment and I am unable to log into Warhammer Online. I am not the only one, either. There is an official thread going on over at the warhammer forums, which is currently being spammed by fellow players who are also going through withdrawals.

There are two issues people are running into at the moment, and stop re-booting your PC and deleting your warpatch.bin file over and over again right now, because it’s not your fault. James, a mythic forum admin, tells me that the problem is their ISP, Verizon’s fault. If there is truth in that statement is up to you, but here are the errors you are probably typing into google as furiously as you can:

“The patch client was unable to update the file [C:\Program Files(x86)\Electronic Arts\Warhammer Online - Age Of Reconing\warpatch.bin] (0 total errors encountered). Please ensure the game is not already running and there is free space availble on the disk.”

or a variation of that error containing:

“cant find patcher.prod.sig at patch server (0 total errors encountered).”

Assuming this is not being caused by a large group of Aion Fanboys targeting a DdoS attack on Mythic’s servers, this should all be cleared up in a few hours (hopefully). Unfortunately it will also probably involve a server rollback, so if you were gaining massive renown at the exact moment the servers went down (like me), you will have to do whatever you were doing all over again.

It appears to me, that a lot of new players are freaking out about this hiccup. As a seasoned MMO player myself, I am used to things like this happening randomly and often. I sympathize, though. It’s my day off too, and I was looking forward to some RvR… Oh well, I am off to read some Warhammer novels while I wait for the problem to resolve itself.