Any time I open the battle.net launcher since this last patch it tells me there’s an update. To which, I click, it spins for a good 30-45 seconds or so, then the button changes to Play (with no work being done as far as I can tell).
I used to get this every now and again on my Mac. Now I get it all the time since the patch. Sometimes even while it’s still open and I close the game but leave the launcher open! My windows rig doesn’t do this at all.
I’ve had to click update after exiting the game or relaunching battle.net for a full decade or so now. I expect it to stay that way the next decade as well, given the sentiment toward mac support being “just give it the bare minimum of support”
Wish I had a better answer but I don’t see them fixing this, ever. they pretty much only fix issues that prevent playing entirely.
Oh man. It just got worse this last patch so I expect I’m gonna be in the same boat now 
Yes, it is definitely worse now since the patch. Previously it would make me update maybe once a day. Now it’s every time the launcher is sitting for 5 minutes.
I’m also in the infinite update loop. I eventually turned on auto-updates just so I don’t have to endlessly approve these non-updates.
I already went this route too. It’s not going to fix anything but at least I will be less frustrated.
Same here. I’ve played this game for over 20 years, and this lack of decent maintenance is as bad as I’ve ever seen. Money transferred between characters has disappeared, trans mogs paid for and then disappearing. Inept.