It’s now 4:30pm in the afternoon and I’m STILL stuck in this loop of either just being stuck on “Initializing… please wait.” or it doing the download of the 468MB file, but upon reaching the end, it just cycles back to “Initializing… please wait.”
I’ve repeatedly tried restarting the PC, the launcher, deleting the cache folders and the entire battle.net folder so it refreshes the download data, I’ve reinstalled the launcher… scan and repairs of the game… closing everything down and using the EXE in the actual retail wow folder to launch the game (which just results in it launching and giving me the “Incompatible realm” lists).
Now, my net connection isn’t great… it’s good enough to play the game, do dungeons and raids, but for downloading… not great… these 400 odd MB files usually take me a good 15-20 mins to download…
Sooo… for me to actually delete and reinstall the game itself, entirely is not really an option… that will be a good couple of days downloading and installing due to my connection speeds…
I have done all trouble shooting suggestions provided… again, with the exception of just entirely deleting and reinstalling the game…