Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
I don't use their forums, and I only played once over the weekend. Launcher didn't tell me anything. Didn't figure out that the game was throwing up the wrong errors until I went digging around for a standalone patch (which blizzard no longer provides) and ended up on the forums with people bitching about the fake gold exploit and down time.
So I can only assume the laucher and patcher had a bug because I'm trying to log on now and what do you know, the game's downloading a patch. So they weren't just doing maintenance, they were in fact trying to patch. So even this bit of whining seems to be off-base.