Launcher just overwrote my retail BFA client with the SL alpha client

[Jehoma-frostmane (Jehoma)]

Now I can’t even log into retail BFA. I get a list of servers which are all “incompatible” with my client version.

EDIT: An hour later, and the launcher has downloaded the correct executable, but also requires me to download another 5 GB worth of files.

[Caterpepi]

Hey, Jehoma! It sounds like this might be similar to this known issue with the Classic client, but with the Alpha client instead.

Launching BFA Launches Classic/BFA Reinstalling Itself

Hey again all, Thanks for the extra reports and testing that for me. I appreciate the logs so far. I’ve updated the thread title to make sure we’re covering both issues, as they appear to be related. Edited by Blizzard: Logs are no longer needed for this issue at this time. Sorry this got in the way with some of you playing this evening. We’ll provide more updates here as we get more information, but keep in mind we still have to identify what’s going on here, so we don’t have an ETA on a fix…

Our team is aware of the issue and working on a permanent resolution for the file issues. If this seems to happen consistently, please report this over to #in-development:shadowlands-alpha-bug-report so that our team can look into this or push out a temporary fix for this issue.