Cant download Classic Stress Test

[Æonny-turalyon]

That’s the pre-download for the 7.2 patch which releases next week.

[anon44004560]

Stress test… Darn, this means the forums will be flooded tomorrow with more streamer hate, conspiracy theories, and general whining that the stress test kept crashing and people couldn’t have smooth, uninterrupted play

What do you mean “darn?” That’s one of the best days to be on the forums. Bring lots of

[Burnsbright-shadowsong]

For me it’s worth resubscribing and giving Bliz $15 to be able to participate in this little two-day event. To re-experience the hours of downtime, repetitive crashes, 30-second lag, database implosions, and other authentic events from the first few weeks of the original WoW release (!). Reliving history… it’l be great!

No I mean it… I resubscribed just for this! To get a taste, if only a small one, until the real thing comes in August. To be able to set aside the BFA disaster and play the real thing, again. Even if its capped at level 15, I intend to beat the living daylights out of the game just like Bliz has asked us to.

But I won’t be starting as a night-elf this time. Nuh uh… going to start in the SW or IF maps, where we can spread out into the world a lot more quickly and not have to stay packed together like sardines.

-Matt

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

Can someone confirm for my idiot brain: the drop down menu will only show up once the download is available? No one has yet been able to download and no one yet has the drop down menu unless they are already in the beta? I am having same issues as op.

If they had the client installed from last test, it will be there. If they don’t it will not, yet.

I want to say that I had to go to my Blizzard account page to create a ptr account when I did the first stress test. So, you may want to check that. Still, I don’t think that it will be available until tonight

Don’t do this. We already had a long line of people requesting deletion of their 2nd PTR account because it blocked the first stress test (myself included).

[Burnsbright-shadowsong]

It just came up right this moment for download.

-Matt

[Xiokar-area-52]

It is available now, there are 21 servers. I guess that answers the question on how many servers we should expect initially.

[Cuinamara-darkspear]

nothing yet

[Xiokar-area-52]

Open the launcher, give it around 2 minutes to process an update for the launcher, then there will be a green bar at the bottom saying there is a launcher update to process, click update and it will reset the launcher. When it comes back you will see two drop down lists. Change the first one from World of Warcraft to World of Warcraft Classic, then in the second one, select the appropriate account you have an active subscription with. After that it will give you the option to install it.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

Yep, its coming out now.

[Cuinamara-darkspear]

they must be brain damaged because my client is still not authorized.

[Hotteddy-kiljaeden]

I can confirm the Classic update is initiated.

Look for the green update bar at the bottom of the BattleDOTnet launcher to appear and restart the app.

[Vîîruz-arthas]

popped up for me like 10 mins ago or something installing it now

[Cuinamara-darkspear]

NOTICE: if your having issues like I was open task manager and completely terminate the battle net tasks and then restart the program. that should work

[Alexès-moon-guard]

I’m … Confused. I’ve had the client on my battle.net and kept it on my computer from prior stress testing … I restarted battle.net, and now my drop down is entirely different. have, starting from the top:

In Development:
PTR: World of Warcraft.
Beta: World of Warcraft. (It says Beta now, not Beta & Stress Test like before?)
LIVE:
World of Warcraft Classic
World of Warcraft

… Anyone else?

[Burnsbright-shadowsong]

This stress test is open to everyone so my presumption is that it is the one under ‘live’, so everyone can access it.

-Matt

[Hotteddy-kiljaeden]

I have not had access to any of the previous stress tests nor the beta.

That being said, my drop down menu shows as:

In Dev:
PTR-World of Warcraft

Live:
World of Warcraft Classic
World of Warcraft

I’m assuming that the stress test will be under the Live account.

[Alexès-moon-guard]

It is, considering launching it brings up a realm list with a whole lot of inactive test servers now. The other one is still grayed out and specifically says beta but is inactive on the play button still. Figured I’d establish everyone has the same thing before I start getting my hopes up.

[Gridlock-norgannon]

Not sure if this means anything at all, but if you hover over “Type” on the realm selection screen it shows RP-PVP as a possibility. Might just be a remnant from retail though.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

World of Warcraft Classic

Select this. Choose a subbed account. Install.

They are doing the stress test using the Live client, not the Beta client.

[Hotteddy-kiljaeden]

I can also assume that the stress test is under Live because the requirement of an active subscription.

You might be able to download and launch the game, but it will likely block any further access without handing over your money to Blizzard first.

Makes sense to me.