I downloaded the most current patch. When I go to log in, the launcher won't bring up any announcements. I've tried multiple times and keep getting error codes. Anyone else having trouble?
OH YES! Took me several hours to fix that, and I'm honestly not sure what worked in the end. Except that the issue for me was that one of the OLDER patches was messed up, when I finally managed to run repair it dl'd that one again and then got to the new one. And then I got in. Weirdly enough, it would not run on my good internet, I had to revert to another connection - but that could be because I'm in Kuwait (as an expat) and the gov't here is block crazy on nearly anything that could be seen as "a kid might have fun". So that could be the issue there.
Incidentally, for some reason I will NEVER understand, that older patch dl'd at a speed of 15kb. WooHoo. 50 mb at 15KB per second. As soon as that was over, the rest went at a decent rate, well, for this place.
Anyhow, let the loading screen run for ten minutes or so, then click "close window" on the icon in the taskbar and see if it'll let you repair. If so, you may get it fixed fairly rapidly. Sigh. They really screwed the pooch on the client side issues.
I had this same issue after 1.04. I just reinstalled my antivirus and the error went away and announcements started showing up again, however, I still cannot login due to "incorrect login information". Same login info works on the account management site and didn't receive a notice that I was banned.