1) Search for notepad in start menu, right click it, choose "Run as administrator";
2) In the notepad program, do File -> Open, navigate to "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" (assuming your WinOS disk is C:\);
3) Choose to show All files, not just text files;
4) select hosts file to open;


you should see something like this as last few lines:






modify the file so it looks like this:








here is text string you must add for convenience:
127.0.0.1 launcher01.kalypsomedia.com

save the file (if this step fails, its possible that you have not opened the file with admin privileges)



5) start the game and congrats on not needing to fiddle with accounts

If you want to know what hosts file does then read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

Thus, when Klaypso launcher tries to find "launcher01.kalypsomedia.com" , operating system serves the launcher IP address of 127.0.0.1 (which is our own machine) and not Kalypso servers.