Yep, just now happened to me.
They may be getting ready to turn Plunder on.
So a different “World Server is Down” I guess! Perhaps flipping the Plunderstorm switch was not a good idea!
Ninja patch?
I’ve never seen that before, tbh. Another 300+MB patch dropped just a short while ago. Hmmm.
generally a sign that there’s a patch that just got deployed.
I have, but only once and that was a special Beta test. I already updated and I’m not seeing another since I restarted the Bnet app just now.
Ok, there’s another update to the bnet app …
Initializing always takes longer than the actual patch.
Restart your computer and Battlenet to push the update through.
All fixed, that little update did the trick! Plunderstorm not activated though.
Nope!
Did they trigger Plunder yet or is it still down? I’m still initializing
what version is the game? Patch 11.0.7.58630 went out today.
NM, about this much late, GG
I logged out to switch characters the second this happened and got scared
same thing just happened to me
Still logged in.
If your initializing slows to a crawl, try hitting the “pause” button next to it, wait 5 seconds or so, and then unpause it. That often speeds the download up again. You might have to do that a couple of times to keep it going.
I had to close everything and re-update twice to get it to work.
This is awesome to know, thank you. It can take ten minutes or more just to get through the initializing stage for some reason. Always has.
Just happened.
Sometimes a 6 hour maintence is just not enough.