Hiya! I have the same issue as Demitroy with the extremely slow Net7Launcher. I used the direct approach with the proxy as suggested, which works(!) and the game will take me to the log in screen with no problems. Now, something else comes up. Once I enter my information (correctly, mind you haha), I get an error telling me that "EA.com is temporarily unavailable. This may be due to routine server maintenance or a problem with your ISP. Please check your ISP connection or try again later. (INV-300)." Now, I set my firewall to "allow all" just in case that was the issue as it sometimes is. Nope, that wasn't it. Mayhap something else was missing?