I've been having the "Tried connecting..." issue since august. This morning i read on the Perfect World forums about someone googling hotspotshield, downloading the free version and using that to use a different IP address to bypass whatever is blocking players. After turning hotspotshield on i still had the issue but…
I've had the same problem, since Monday the 13th of September. I've talked to the support group twice now. The first time, i was given nothing but a copy of the latest "answers" to general internet questions, literally, the answers that were presented as general answers to similar questions. I tried all their ideas anyway…