I do believe you are correct my friend. I as well have been reading through this forum since yesterday, and am blown away by how many people will post their own thread about "their" problem, as oppose to taking a second to check some of the threads, at least to see if anything sounds remotely similar to ones own issue.. Why I didn't post anything similar? figured you'd come around with a better way of putting it ;-) I'm also trying to research if only people's characters that were logged in at the time of the "hotmess" patch are locked out, as it seems their other characters and new characters created are able to get online and play without any issues.. but I'm not quite ready yet to throw away the time I've invested in this game, so simply chuckin it up as "character loss" won't happen here.. Not gonna pay $60, spend 2 weeks playing, and simply have that erased by the creators of the game, or mayb the lizard group.. quite frankly don't care how.. just want this resolved asap.. WHAT A MESS!!!