This is genuinely atrocious and downright unfair for a launcher to behave this way. I can’t even launch other games when there’s an update, no matter what kind of solution I try following.
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Same issue every single patch since DF. Sit on initialize for 30 minutes and then download takes less than a minute. Very frustrating.
3 different computers in 2 houses. 300 Meg initialize took average of 30 + minutes. Download speeds usually average 50 Megs. Now anywhere from 12Kb to 5.2 meg. That’s even on a full install of the game on one system. Talk about a long download on a 98gig game.
And again…
Battle.net https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/blizzard
Go post there… They are the ones doing this? Right?
No. The problem is specific to World of Warcraft. It is specific to the deployment of patches for world of warcraft. Therefore, it rightly belongs here.
Any searches on the Battle Net forums yield no results for me. It appears to be bugged.
Funny that there is 100 posts about download issues just in the past week.
So you say it is Blizzard that runs the updater inside of Battle.net ?
I started my update process at 9:28pm. From 9:28pm to 9:29pm, the status was “initalizing”, with an agonizingly slow process bar from 35/350MB to full 350MB.
Then the traffic dropped to a normal 1.5Mb/sec as expected (mostly Chrome, says Process explorer, with some Discord).
During this period, Task Manager showed network utilization of 60Mb/second, or around 6 megabytes per second. (don’t @ me abut 8 bits per byte; try it first, the math is more like 10:1 for data transfers depending on protocol).
That’s enough for 3.6GB of data to be downloaded. Ten times the amount of the update size.
I started this post at 9:39pm, it is now 9:43pm. The loader is now “Initializing” at 0%. It has been at 0% since 9:39pm.
That’s a problem. A big problem. I can work around this by running Worldofwarcraft.exe and keying in my password and MFA code. But this should work.
Solved it.
How? Kill agent.exe in Task Manager.
After 5 min…
Hit pause and played lucky jump.
Restarted and it updated while I let the dog out.
Went and played lucky jump.
So I resolved this by signing up for a VPN, which leads me to believe that it had more to do with my ISP than anything on Blizzard’s end.
Wishing we had better infrastructure, which seems insane to say living in a major metro area in the U.S.
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