NCSoft Launcher Issues?

So after hearing via CoH's UStream that the servers were back up tonight I went and opened the launcher to get in-game. People in the chat were already saying what servers they were confirming worked...but my launcher wouldn't download the patch to let me in. A dev responded to something in chat and said the launcher was probably being overwhelmed by people.

It said "Downloading..." for CoH, I clicked Update, and it opened the updating window. It didn't say 1/30, 0%, a filename, ETA, or anything, it was just blank. So I reached to have it do a consistency check...since it believed it was downloading it wasn't even an option. I closed and re-opened the launcher multiple times and it always did the same thing. To get patched tonight I had to once again say "screw the stupid new launcher", dig through my c:\program files to the old updater, and do it that way. And of course, old reliable fixed the .piggs that needed updating, updated the checksum, and got me in-game(if it really was stress on the update server breaking NCsoft's then why did this one run like a charm? ). After doing THAT was the ncsoft launcher able to open and go "hey look CoH is up to date" and launch from there too. This is the 2nd or 3rd patch that this has happened to me with, and firing the old launcher was the only way to get my files updated. Idk how i'm ever gonna play if they phase that out.

(Windows XP SP3 32 bit btw)

Does anyone else have issues with the NCSoft Launcher not downloading patches?

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Hi Psychic Guardian,

I'm apologize for the trouble you're having with the NCsoft Launcher. Have you tried uninstalling the Launcher, and then re-downloading it from the PlayNC website?

Best,
~Freitag

No I haven't tried that yet. Since it works for some patches I hadn't thought it could be of any help, I guess ill see.

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Uninstalling, restarting my PC, downloading the launcher from ncsoft and re-installing allowed the Repair function to execute properly again. I can't figure out why though.

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