Another patch, another broken WoW, game won't launch

So I guess this is just a WoW thing now. Patch comes out, breaks your game.

Press Play, game never launches.

I found a fix for it once but I don’t remember what it is. I’ve tried numerous other “fixes” with no luck.

The only thing that seems to work for sure is uninstall and reinstalling.

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Could be this thread?

Not sure what caused your issue, but no problems on my end. Maybe security software? Maybe windows update?

Yep, I made that thread the last time it broke. I ended up having to uninstall and reinstall.

How can Blizz not figure out the issue? No other game I have does this.

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It’s not a common issue that I am aware of, and likely not a service issue, but a local computer issue.

Its pretty common. You can Google “pressing play wow doesn’t launch” or something along those lines.

Fortunately, I got it to work this time. I renamed the Wow.exe to force the game to make a new one. Then it launched.

Thank you for responding though.