The game won’t launch when I click “Play”, also “Scan and Repair” is greyed out. WoW does not appear in the list over running programs.
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Having the same problem
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Same problem here.
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Same. This is known to occur regularly and randomly with game updates but I’ve not had problem for the last 2 months. About an hour ago I got it to launch on the 10th attempt by first closing wow in task manager, where it would only display as background task with no resources being utilized. Sometimes if you leave it like that for 15 minutes the game has a chance to launch with massive delay.
Don’t bother troubleshooting or reinstalling because this isn’t anything new or consistently solvable from our end (maybe if you use dx11 launch command?). There are ongoing issues with directx12 so I can with a degree of confidence guess that it might be directly related to a botched attempt at fixing what is broken.
Something weird is happening with the game in context of windows taskbar repeatedly and forcibly showing itself while on the loading screen. At the same time there’s a chance the game will at least temporarily stop responding.
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Thank you! Finally got it to launch after probably 20 tries, while force closing in between each attempt.
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Yep, same disease here, doesn’t launch at all, been trying quite a many times now and nothing happens. Old, slow HDD is not the culprit as I don’t have one.
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I have same probem. And now when it start it start the wow 10 times 
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I have the same problem now. No problems yesterday though.
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yep same for me
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Same problem here
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Same issue here, launching through battle.net app doesnt work. It did however launch when i went to my WoW folder and manually launched the game
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I cant even get it to launch from there.
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i hit play and left it and it finally launched after about 5mins but then all the other times i’d hit play tried to launch as well
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Same here, starting yesterday.
Last week or so, the modern client would take an awful long time to start up, seemingly using the disk. It does display a white border for me so I understood something is going on. After about 15-30 seconds, it did start up. Overall occurred twice.
Classic doesn’t launch since yesterday properly. It did launch in the evening, after a minute or so. I thought the command was eaten so I pressed it a second time, which coincidentally made it launch; a few minutes later I noticed I have a second client running with a message “cannot log in”.
Currently pressed Play twice, first 7 minutes ago. I have one client in the task manager, initially showing 23mb for a few minutes, then 120mb, now sitting at 149.3mb memory consumption. Guess I won’t talk to the Atal’ai Exile after all 
Edit (1): 14 minutes in, game started 
Edit (2): 2 minutes later, second client was there as well. Which is funny as I only had one WoW in task manager after the first game launching.
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Same issue here since this morning, was fine last night
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Not even manually lauching from WoW folder work for me.
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Same problem here. Was fine yesterday. It only laucnh when entering PTR but not live version.
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Nothing works, I cant open the game at all
Edit: Seems to be fixed now?
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Experiencing the same thing this morning.
Edit: letting it sit for a while after pressing play it suddenly opened.
Well I logged to PTR and after that it let me to log in live version.
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