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[bubosquared]

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]

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'll take a screenshot if it's still doing it tonight, but it's something about "cannot validate game version"?

[rawness.livejournal.com]

That usually means your patch is wrong/off. Have there been any US hotfixes this week?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

That might be it--it downloaded the UK patch automatically the second time I installed it as well, but that's probably because it's a UK version, and it's not letting me login even the first time, before (I think) the patch is installed, but I'm installing the US client, will manually apply the US patch(es), and see if that works.

Thanks for your help, btw. :)

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

Sudden flash of inspiration. (which may be totally off).

Maybe it's the other way around? I know there was a Euro only mini patch this week connected to the Spanish realms, so maybe that's the problem?

(I have no clue about patches and how they work so this is probably complete bollocks).

[rawness.livejournal.com]

Oh no problem.

If we've hotfixed in the US and the UK hasn't yet, you get screwed. I was in the UK when...1.10 or 1.11 I think it was, came out. One of the big patches. WELL - they decided not to patch the UK one for an extra WEEK. No WoW for me.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Woe! Well, I suppose I can survive without WoW for a bit, right? (... Right?)