So, I haven't played in ages....for various reasons, mainly due to WG making bad game design decisions and being (sshhh!!!) secrative to a paranoid degree with game info (ie, how many players are queued in what tier -so I know what tier to queue in order to get a match with ACTUAL PEOPLE).
Gripes aside, I bumbled into the forums a few days ago and decided, "Why not, I'll see what's new with the game and how it's playing these days..."
So, I load up, look through some of the new stuff with aircraft mods, and compare a few planes' stats to refresh myself on what does what.
Only to meet with catastrophe: "you've been discombobulated from the server." Oh, nooo! But, I can login and at least not leave my team a man short...riiight?! Разработчики говорят <<НЕТ>>! (Developers say, "NO!")
I login, after a few failed attempts due to "failure to reach the login server or incorrect login" (using the correct login and pw). I hope to jump back into the battle to leave my team not down a human player and am met with this:
GG, WG. You win. You're still cheating, but you do win.