Made sure the app and all launchers are allowed acess in Defender and even turned Windows Defender off and tried launching unsuccesfully. Hearthstone will connect and update, Wow retail and classic will not.
I have disabled all unneeded scripts and background programs
I have flushed my DNS cache and reset my configuration
I have called my ISP provider who claims “nothing on our end blocking, must be their end”
It is not a “sudden coincidence” this has happened for the first time on a patch day
Have been getting this code all day too. Was able to play the pre patch perfectly fine earlier in the week but today, 26th July, its looking do another update but is constantly stuck on initializing before saying somethings wrong with this code. tried uninstalling and reinstalling Battlenet, flushing DNS, closed other apps, basically everything but still unable to update.
same here cant even load most support pages from blizzard atm all games seem to have connection issues but everything else i use is fine. just like these idiots to update one game and f**k everything up like they usually do.