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For some reason I can't access the site from any of my home computers, but I can from my work. I'm thinkin' it has something to do with my router but I'm not sure. Any one have any ideas.?
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Whiffle: For some reason I can't access the site from any of my home computers, but I can from my work. I'm thinkin' it has something to do with my router but I'm not sure. Any one have any ideas.?

Hello,
Please raise this with the support team, by going to Support -> Contact us.
I had the same issue, in reverse. I setup my account at home Tuesday evening, and today I tried to login from my laptop at work and was unable to. All the links I tried (having copied them exactly from my home PC even) just forwarded me back to the intro teaser page. Is that the same as your issue?
If that matches your problem, go back to the beta page on the new PCs and re-enter your email and beta key, and suddenly all those links will work. Kind of annoying, but hopefully we'll be able to just authenticate based on our email/password before too long regardless of what PC we're on.
If thats not a match for your problem, any descriptions you can give would be helpful for trying to diagnose it.
The same happened to me as pogle described, and I have to wonder if purging cookies on my workstation would force a repeat of the problem.
If that's the case, while it's not a deal breaker to have to reinput the beta invite code, it *is* a nuisance that I think is unnecessary every time I clear my browser's private data.
Heh, it can be a nuisance when you deleted your beta key, because you thought it's just one-time activation key as usual :(
Tried to contact support team yesterday, but unfortunately no response since then.
EDIT: I just acquired my beta key again :) Thanks GoG.com :)
Post edited September 25, 2008 by DracoPsycho
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DracoPsycho: Heh, it can be a nuisance when you deleted your beta key, because you thought it's just one-time activation key as usual :(
Tried to contact support team yesterday, but unfortunately no response since then.

Try to copy browser cookies from the computer that has access to GOG to your other PC.
I don't know if it will work though.
Have had the same problem for two weeks or so. One mail to the suppord and I got my beta key again and it was again possible to log in. :)
Ok, I copied my cookies from work to my home computer and that fixed it. A little weird, maybe it's some they need to look into.
If you:
* clear your browsers cookies
* use a different browser on the same computer
* use a different computer
you will have to re-enter the beta invite code, and then log in again. After the closed beta finishes, and the site will be available to everyone the whole beta code annoyance will be over. But every time one of above mentioned points will happen you will have to log in again.
There is no any other way to store your login/password/betakey than in a cookie.
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Whiffle: Ok, I copied my cookies from work to my home computer and that fixed it. A little weird, maybe it's some they need to look into.

It's not a bug, the site is deliberately set up to require a beta key-based cookie rather than just allowing people who have already proved their beta access (by entering the beta key at registration) to login normally.
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Venom: There is no any other way to store your login/password/betakey than in a cookie.

That isn't true. You could store the beta key against the person's user account (ie the user types in the key at registration, the key is then marked as 'used' in your database). This would mean that only those with beta keys could have user accounts. Then just allow them to log in with their user account (as many times as they feel the need to clear their cookies) and store the _login data_ as a cookie.
Post edited September 26, 2008 by MrCynical