Game not launching

[Minizip-shadowsong (Minizip)]

Changing firewall settings does work, as explained here, if you block outgoing connections to the specific range of blizzard servers that are causing this problem :

Waiting 10 mins for wow to launch ( solved problem )

I’ve been experiencing an issue where launching World of Warcraft takes about 10 minutes from pressing the start button until the game actually launches. After investigating the problem, I found some interesting technical details. After launching the executable file, I used Process Explorer to look into the TCP connections. I discovered that the game isn’t launching immediately because it’s waiting for a connection to be established with IPs in the range 137.221.64.0/24. The issue is that I’m s…