Since this past Tuesday when the patch went live my game has been basically broken. The issue seems to be with the Battle.net launcher. The download will not begin and stays stuck in initializing, also seems to be stuck in a loop and the button lights up for a second saying “Update” then goes back to initializing.
I have tried every single option that I have found from searching these forums, YouTube, google, Blizzard’s responses in tickets I’ve opened all with zero success.
I did manage to get the game to launch and be playable at some point but by launching via the games exe and not the launcher, it then downloaded to 7% and stayed stuck there all week. Today 10/29 with the reset I am back to square one with this issue and cannot play.
Here is a list of everything that I have tried in no particular order, none of which worked.
- Restart the computer
- Task manager close Battle.net and restart it
- Released and renewed IP via CMD and flushed DNS
- Tried wireless vs hardwire (normally hardwired)
- Tried directly off the modem and not the router
- Deleted all Battle.net and Blizzard Entertainment data/cache files from computer and restarting. Then opening launcher.
- Deleting Battle.net all together, redownloading and installing.
- Uninstalled Battle.net and Wow and re-installed.
- Rolled system back to previous restore point before the patch.
- Ran system in safe mode with networking
- Disabled/Deleted all addons
- Tried installing everything onto a different drive
- Disabled anti-virus
- Scanned for viruses and malware
To be honest I might have done more and can’t even recall out of the pure frustration. It should be noted that this is only affecting World of Warcraft and other games such as Call of Duty work fine from the Battle.net launcher and I was able to download a 50 gig patch to Call of Duty without any issues whatsoever but Wow will not update. I am at a loss for what to do to fix this. I have considered even updating to Windows 11 just to see if it will work. Prior to 10/22 I have had zero issues with the game for years. I have not made any hardware or software changes to the computer prior to these issues.
Very open to any suggestions on resolving this issue.