bubosquared | (no subject)

So. After many headaches, I'm coming to the internet for help. All I want is to be able to play World of Warcraft on the US servers. I've done some googling and found instructions on how to change the realmslist file to make it logon to the US servers, I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and I have a US account, and still it keeps not letting me log in and giving me a "cannot validate" error.

Please help me, internets, you're my only hope. Please feel free to point people this way if you think they might be of help. I know it's possible, but Blizzard say it's not supposed to be possible so I can;t ask them for help. And I'm about to go insane over here.

[ETA] Well, rawumber managed to log on with my US account just fine, so the account is not the problem (which would've been preferable, as then I could've asked Blizzard for help, sigh). I'm currently downloading the US client, and will uninstall/reinstall tomorrow, download the patch from the website rather than through the updater, and try again. Any other suggestions still welcome. [/ETA]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You have to buy an American version of the game to play on the US servers, yo. Even with the file editing, which you still have to do.

Or actually that might just be for the CD-key to get a US account, which you say you have. Then, I don't know. I'm sorry. :(
Should edit file, then download the update from worldofwarcraft.com instead of using the auto updater.

Hm, that might be an idea. I didn't think I could download it off the website itself, let's go check that out. Thanks!

Yeah, we said the same thing. Probably runnin' through the same forums, too.
But yeah, you can download WoW patches off of fileplanet.com, that I know of, and should be a link to the patch from the main site as well.

According to everything I've found through google, though, says that as long as you have a US account (which I do) and edit the file, you should be fine. I might try downloading the US client, though, and see if that works.