so I recently re-installed my copy of ROL, and to my dismay the auto-patcher fails. Claims there is no patch for my copy.

So I hunt for some solutions on the net to see what I did wrong and I found this horror story: (also happens to be the top google result when searching "Problems Patching Rise of Legends")

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/39309975/m/557003275831

I thought I would post here in case anyone else was in the same boat I was in. Evidently Micro$oft is not releasing a stand-alone patch to curb piracy. The ironic thing is that it takes a bit of piracy to patch a legal retail copy!

Yup, I have this problem too. Just like you, I've been doing some research and I've come to the same conclusion -- the solution on the arstechnica.com forum appears to be the only one that should really work.

So this means we have to download some shady patch pack from either Bittorent or Megaupload, manually create a batch file and keep our fingers crossed. :(