This worked for me and was originally posted by Imathi here:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?375551-Cant-talk-to-npc-after-patch&p=4763252&viewfull=1#post4763252
All NPCs
English
WITH US International Keyboard under Windows settings...resetting to straight US keyboard and rebooting game fixed issue for me but I had to change the DEFAULT keyboard to US not just switch keyboard setttings.
Hope it helps other people too.
EDIT: This worked on my Windows 7 machine.
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its cryptic job to make this game running , in wich they are horribly failing at :I
i think i can bet , they are not even 1 bit different than gold botters , everything goes automatic, and trows the patch down at a certain time , and than they go drink a beer and dont give a f*ck anymore
The guy is just trying to help folks.
Hiring competent QA Testers would be the best solution.
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Proof its not working :
Windows 8 64 bit
"We have found the main cause and are working to resolve it. We'll update you with information as soon as we can."
Well, if they really honestly wanted to communicate with the player base they might consider posting that at the Official Game Forums.
Oh wait, Cryptic and Communication is same sentence - an oxymoron.
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Just unfortunately they seem to introduce more bugs then they fix and nerf more than they improve, especially around any source of ad income.
The patch they put up last night on the preview server had a different problem (that involved keybinds). I'm guessing while fixing that they introduced this new bug.
Some have the problem, some don't. Maybe no one had the problem on the preview server to report it. Since it seems to be a language issue maybe it was an error in copying the change data from preview to live. Who knows.
Or that.
For me I had to add a language, then search for US, Once installed switched to us in the sys tray.
My keyboard has the french layout.
Is there any chance Cryptic would fix this soon ?
(and because of this problem i can't even do the very first quest)