Been there for at least 30 minutes with no progress.
yup i am too ā¦
just paused the update then it re started and fixed it.
I have been stuck at āinitializingā for almost 45 minutes. No luck pausing/restarting the update.
Same. no apparent fix so far. Did you guys tried to scan and repair?
Update: Reinstalling the Battle.net client will get you stuck as well.
Well I reinstalled be the issue persists
Had the same problem, Exit out of the Launcher completely by exiting it from the task bar and then launch it again, i got a notice saying Battle.net update agent is asleep, attempting to wake it up and then a minute later the update finished and i was able to log in. Hope this helps.
Having the same issue now. Exiting the launcher completely and then reopening is not helping. Tried changing to a different account and still same issue.
Perfect! This worked just like you said!
Make sure nothing for Blizz is running in your task manager either.
Worked for me too thanks
Yeah go to task manager processes after you close the launcher from the task bar and make sure to stop the āBattle.net update agentā from there. Then relaunch and it should work.
This worked for me on release day as well!!! Thanks!
Iāve reinstalled the game twice now because the stupid update has been stuck on initializing. Itās a temporary workaround, but here I am yet again stuck on initializing. What the heck are we supposed to do?!?! BLUE POST PLEASE!!
Edit: Closing the āBattle.net update agentā items in task manager resolved this for me as well. Shouldnāt be necessary Blizz!
I found I had to go and manually End Task on the Battle.net update agent in task manager before it would work to reopen and start the patch successfully.
Restarted my PC and was able to start up wow just fine. Couldnt get past initializing update until i did this.
Restarting this did not work. Task manager did not work - still stuck in the forever spin of āinitializingāā¦
it says to my client that there is 668 bytes remaining to download.
I have done all suggestion posted here even contacted my isp. and I still cannot play.
This is happening to me too and none of the solutions here are working. Iāve tried using end task, Iāve tried restarting the computer, and Iāve tried scanning & repairing the install.
Same here. I canāt play right now and none of these options have worked. My sub is up the end of the week too. If I canāt play Iām just not resubbing lol
Same situation for me. Iāve tried all of the above mentioned solutions and nothing has fixed the issue. Not sure what to do at this pointā¦
I am also having the exact same issue. Has never happened before to me. I did a test run by updating WOTLK classic and that went through fine. Scan and repair on retail wow. closed bnet via task manager. sill stuck on initializing.