Hi there,
Saw an older post from Skinnbones posted on July 12, 2024 about the game not launching after clicking on “Play” from the Battle.net app.
Has anyone else had any similar issues and/or found a solution?
I have the M1 Pro Mac on macOS 14.6.1 and have been playing the past month without issue until today. I tried everything such as:
- Scan and repair the game folder
- Switched the Battle.net app to Beta version to see if it works
- Redownloaded the game and did a clean install
- Deleted the add-on folder to make sure it’s clean
- Used added command line argument “-d3d11” to run it using Direct 11
- Uninstalled the battle.net app and re-installed a new version
- Shut down my Mac/updated to the latest OS
- Made sure the folder and game had full disk access and read/write permissions
- Launched the game from the folder instead of battle.net
There doesn’t seem to be any solid solution online. Would appreciate any help!
Edit (15/08/2024): For anyone else with a similar problem, after trying about everything, I ended up launching the game from Battle.net app and just leaving it alone even if the app says “Application is not responding”. Instead of force quitting, after about 6 minutes and 15 seconds (Actually timed it lol), the game started working. I start the game this way now, and it’s consistently been 6 mins+ to start.
Edit (20/08/24): SOLUTION: Would like to give credit to Nivsvdh for the solution, amazing find.
For MAC users, here is our workaround since, Nivsvdh is using Windows. Unfortunately, natively Mac firewall can only block incoming connections and not outgoing connections. So, you will need a third-party software to perform this. In my case, I have Little Snitch, an amazing app.
- Open Little Snitch, or your preferred software. Let it run and diagnose all outgoing connections.
- Open Battle.net, click on “Play” and wait for WoW to launch (6mins+).
- Once the game has launched, on Little Snitch, under “World of Warcraft”, you’ll see all outgoing connections from the app.
- Expanded view: World of Warcraft > blizzard. com > cdn.blizzard. com
- Block outgoing access to this particular IP. Which is mentioned in Nivsvdh’s post to be “IP range 137.221.64.0/24”
- Close battle.net, close WoW.
- Relaunch, and it works perfect, startup is less than 5 seconds.
This was a LONG and TECHNICAL solution, but as a Mac user, just had to be found. I hope this helps anyone else. Has been bugging me for quite a while, so I’m glad it’s fixed for now.
