Hooker said:
Mallika, did it go through right at once? or did you get some errors?
I'm curious to what errors you might have received, because all of my 6 (!!) accounts get the 'your account has been suspended' error...
EDIT: And now the error is 'undefined'... meh
When I clicked the link in the email, it went to a page and it immediately told me that my account was verified. Lucky me, I guess. Then, in the midst of a billion 414, 1103, 1304, and 300 errors (also the 'servers down' and 'undefined' ones -- I just kept refreshing) I was able to log in. Of course it didn't tell me that I was logged in, it just kept giving me the errors, and then after I tried to log in again it told me I was 'already logged it' (yeah, logged IT. Fuck you GOA -- then again don't know what to expect from people who can't even spell IRELAND correctly even though they work in the country (they spelled it as Irland on the SE partners page)).
That was when I found that thread I linked in my post above (
weird workaround).
So I tried it out, and was able to get to the product key page after reloading a few times. (It'll keep wanting you to log in, but if you already 'logged it' then just keep refreshing till you see your username and a spinning wheel of death over 'Product Key' button. If you're lucky the page will load to one where you can type in the key. If not, you keep getting an error window with nowhere to put in a key. If that happens, refresh.)
I typed in my key, a Validate button popped up, I clicked it, there was a 1304 or 1103 error, don't remember. As per advice I ignored it, and then suddenly it changed to 414. I ignored the window, no clicking Ok, no nothing. After a while, the main page stopped loading and Validate button came up again, so I clicked it. I clicked it about 5 times (with the error window still open) and finally got to a part where they said they validated the key and was I sure I wanted to use it? No / Yes.
I was like, FUCKING YES YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT WEBSITE, and clicked Yes. Of course it popped up the error window, which I again ignored. And I kept having to click Yes. Then it went back to having me click Validate. And then Yes again. Over and over and over, round and round we go. And then I finally got a completely black screen.
That was when a vein popped in my forehead and I said, fuck this.
I looked back at a thread or two and found that some people were able to log into the patcher/loader even when they hadn't gotten a 'your key is now used' confirmation email, so I decided to try that. And it worked.
ANd I am in the game, at the character creation screen. There's only one server up (FR) at the moment so yeah, haven't actually gotten into the world yet. I'm in a queue of 389 people. (Edit: 458 now, but I'm #87.)
Edited to add some more details.