For those of you with the patience to brute force your way into the game, don’t forget you can stay logged in to take a nap or go to work by stripping down naked so when you die of thirst or hunger, you simply respawn on your bed.
It might take 50 tries or it might take less than 5 tries, but as stated multiple times in this thread and others, you CAN log into any server if you have the patience to do so. There is no other way to login at this time and since we are getting nothing but crickets from Funcom, what choice do we have?
Since someone decided to link this reply to multiple threads, I guess I should explain the brute force method a bit.
Step 1) Login to server list ( should be zero issue for everyone ).
Step 2) Login to private servers requires first verifying all mods are up to date ( this can cause the authentication error to occur but for some reason it doesn’t happen that often ).
Step 3) Login to private or official server ( this may take less than 5 or if you’re unlucky, more than 50 attempts ). Just keep hitting OK and try logging in again. For private servers, this method allows you to bypass verifying mods as it’s already done and it just attempts logging straight into the server.
P.S. I also want to mention another method which I’m unable to do because using a direct IP connect via the Steam server menu shows all my private servers as “not responding” but if you want to try that method and your private server actually shows up, I heard it bypasses Funcom’s Live Services.