Any endeavor of this scope should have backups to the backups and multiple layers of protection from this type of downtime. Stuff happens. Things fail. However, those things must be planned for and in the system BEFORE they happen. That then allows you to quickly recover WHEN it does happen...and it will. This is…
Same exact problem here. I was in game and started crashing when going into a new zone that had not patched yet. So I turned off on-demand and allow it to patch. I then forced verify. The client then would not even load and started giving the above error. Sure would like to play the game.