I can’t log into retail WoW. Everytime I hit play, and make sure that I’m not on classic, it automatically logs me into classic. I’ve tried a scan and repair, but it said there was nothing to repair. But, I’m just honestly not sure what could be causing this? I just want to get on retail WoW.
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If you’re certain you have the correct client selected on the Launcher, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling said Launcher?
As it stands currently, I was getting ready to do that before noticing that it made a second classic icon on my computer. I clicked to move it, but it opened the battle.net launcher and now it’s doing an update it wasn’t doing when trying to actually log in to the game. I don’t even know what’s happening, now…
Are you making sure both spots are set for the right version/account?
Above the play button selects the version, retail or classic; and then to the right of that selects which account you’re logging into.
I’m not quite sure what you mean; I only have this account and now the game is updating, which wasn’t happening before. It seems like it might be fixing itself because when I hit play once the download was ‘playable’, it logged me into retail fine. It was just a matter of some weird mistake causing it, now, because it’s made two separate icons for Classic, now. Tried to move one, and it opened bnet and started updating the retail wow.
They accidentally put the WowClassic.exe in the retail folder in the last update. I don’t think they realized it yet.
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same issue, i cant get it to stop launching classic no matter what
i uninstalled everything and tried reinstalling
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To give more info:
I attempted to launch retail. It opened classic.
I ran the scanner. It still opened classic
I uninstalled classic. It still somehow opened it.
I uninstalled everything. I attempted to install retail. It installed classic.
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If you go into your retail folder, Pointyhatkid, does it list the WoWClassic.exe? If so, can you just drag it over to the Classic folder? Doublecheck that the regular WoW.exe application is in the Retail folder.
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I deleted the entire World of Warcraft folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\
I hit install again on retail (Version World of Warcraft - Account Shadowlands). It basically installed classic again. The files seem to be going into the below folder. It didn’t recreate the retail folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft_classic_
Just to confirm, there is no WoW.exe file to be found? Just the WoWClassic.exe one?
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same issue here,retail logs me into classic
both version of the games are on version 1.134 and there is no wow.exe in retail folder but World of Warcraft Launcher and wowclassic
also everytime I exit classic where retail logs into, the game will do a quick update with no info on size or anything .
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When was your last update? What version shows on the launcher?
Cause I’m fully updated (as far as I know) and have no problem logging into retail or classic.
It didn’t recreate the retail folder.
I see “World of Warcraft Launcher.exe” in C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\
I see another “World of Warcraft Launcher.exe” in C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft_classic_
I don’t see WoW.exe.
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Alright. Thank you, Pointy. I believe they are discussing this in the Technical Support forum as well (which you have posted in), but I’ve passed on the information.
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Yup, that’s what was happening to me. Quick updates with no information. And it did it each and every time after closing down Classic to try something else to see if it’d eventually log me into retail.
Thankfully, mine has fixed itself after it, for some reason, made a second icon for Classic. Literally none of that made sense to me, since I tried to move the new Classic icon, but it opened bnet and started doing a proper update.
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After doing my update, I had another update for 60 gigs anyone else experience this? My rural internet isn’t going to have it installed for about a week. Anyone got any advice? I scanned and repaired and nothing happen. please help
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Hiya, Having same issue, Tried to log in through Bnet client, One thing i did notice, Manifest was continously being downloaded/checked. Then was getting a ‘Ready to play’ message then 2 secs would run it again. Once i Clicked play (with retail selected) Would open classic, Once i closed Classic. Bnet was showing download paused. Then after a few would continue to try update then say was ready.
I then went to C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft_retail_
Once there would open Wow.exe. This would then open classic again.
Ran Check/repair through Bnet launcher. This ran found no errors.
Left computer for an hour or two. I came back to find out it was re-downloading the whole game. Looks like it was 30 GB in when I stopped it due to my internet now being capped on data for the month. Going to be a long 2 weeks now…
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I know our techs were looking into this yesterday, but I don’t have any updates.
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Found a fix on the forum from a player.