I've seen a lot of discussion regarding this on the official forums, but no real solutions or explanations. Now that it's preventing me from playing the game I'd love to see someone help me out and give me an idea as to what's going on.
I'm new to the game and haven't even been able create a character yet. I installed the client, got all the patches (which was an adventure in itself), and finally got to log in and when I get to the server selection screen, it doesn't matter what server I pick, but an unreadable message flashes and then I am told that I have been "disconnected from the server" and the I crash to the desktop.
I've tried all of the suggestions on the official forums (flushing DNS, opening ports in firewall, disabling firewall and anti virus) and have received no official help from their customer service. The only suggestion of theirs that I haven't tried is plugging into the modem rather than through a router. This isn't possible because I live in the dorms at a college so I don't really have access to that sort of thing.
Any help would be great, I'd love to actually play this game.