Why are some characters still unplayable when clicking on play

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For some years now there has been an issue with the game: After passing the first few levels (it happened to me with two lvl 18 characters), it becomes impossible to play said characters. What I mean is when presented with the screen showing the characters, clicking on play will not do anything.

Other lower level characters will react correctly, creating a new character will work as well, but characters with level higher than ~15 are unplayable

The issue has been know for some years, there are some forum threads about it and alike issues

Proposed solutions

  • changing firewall settings
  • running as administrator
  • running in compatibility mode
  • repairing install
  • waiting after clicking on play
  • installing latest drivers

None of them seem to fix the issue. As hinted with the last link, as of january 2014 the devs seem to be aware of the issue. Is there any consistent way of being able to actually play our characters?

Best Answer

As mentionned by MatthewRead in a comment:

they had downtime to fix this today


All servers will be temporarily unavailable starting at 5AM PDT/12 GMT in order to attempt to address an intermittent login issue.

It was on their side, and as Timelord64 mentionned:

if a problem effects characters over level 15, but you are still able to play the game on a new character, I find it difficult to believe it could ever be admin rights, firewall, system problems or driver issues