I have the same problem with this clien update erorr.
Also got the premium account for 3 day, but can't play the game.... and also I can't redeem daily prices.
I'm not tehnicaly good, what does mean use steam client?! Can someone write us steps what to do?!
During the holydays and lockdown, we can't play the game normaly...this sux.
so it looks like this is just resoplved, I tried again today and it actually loaded the update, but i did miss out on one of the event items cool story
Had this too. No communication (well, any clear), that they are now basically only using the Steam client (for update / maintenance reasons). So, the stand alone client is practically not usable.
Get a Steam account, find NF in it, and you can play again.
This rubbish came with the 26-Dec update.