I've also been seeing this sort of issue with the Firefox browser, which started yesterday. Considering that the gateway worked just fine up until yesterday, I'm a bit at a loss as to what the issue may be. Cookies are enabled for that site and the Firefox browser was working for the site until that point.
Someone who had this issue earlier mentioned here(http://techsupport.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=40971) that they found a workaround for having their characters crash on login after the initial crash. Basically you access each character by logging in using safe mode and moving them out of the race instance. It will…
Had the same issue with the launcher/updater being unable to authenticate. Logging into the website, waiting a few minutes and then starting the launcher seemed to work for me. I kept the browser window open and logged into my account until after I'd successfully logged in on the launcher. Not sure if it was just the…
Another way to handle it would be to implement some way to level-lock so you can continue adventuring while waiting on the skirmish queue without having to worry about passing the level limit. Regardless of the way this is dealt with, it would be nice to add a tutorial or informative mailing/whatnot that is automatically…