Early in the morning yesterday I found that my chat stopped connecting preventing me from being able to join my friends matches or inviting them to my matches.

I have tried closing the client changing the date and such, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and I have confirmed the dates on my computer, I have also allowed everything through firewall.

It sounds to me like you are experiencing internet connection problems. Either this, or you have a firewall that is blocking your connection to our servers. I would try checking for and then disabling any firewalls on your computer, and then power cycle your modem. If these don't work, feel free to open a support ticket

-The Beard

Hmm well my internet is directly connected and runs fine i can play games with no issues at all, just the chat won't load. Pvp.net is allowed through the firewall, and I also tried turning the firewall off.