This is happen so frequently. Several times weekly. My bnet are updating wow and it taking so much time from me. The update can stay in initializing mode for 30-45-60 min. I understand the game needs updates. But this is just frustrating at this point. If I play 4 times a week the game needs update 3 times.
Is there a way to avoid this crap?
It takes 2 minutes tops for me.
There’s some articles on how to troubleshoot it.
There is some issue with launcher itself. I had this this morming too and last week with communicate "other download pending " or something.
Once IT goes to initialization then its super fast for me. Just to push it there is a massacre.
It Has likely something to do with the nonsense advertising they put into launcher. I wish i coupe just run wow by itself With upgrades without their nonsensical launcher
my update was only a few seconds o.O
Good for you, clearly not everybody is so lucky.
I usually get 5mins of initializing and a few seconds of actually updating.
this one time, I was just stuck on initialising and some people would go on the forums to complain about it which the mods were not helpful at all.
I left it for 2 months or so (I only came when bliz did that free-to-play promotion thing) and wala, they fixed whatever they broke.
Same for me but it is not really 5mins just feels like it. Takes a while to initialize then downloads super fast but reclaiming/cleanup takes a bit longer than initializing. For me it s like a total 7mins.
I’d recommend starting with this one, out of that list:-
there’s definitely an issue on your bnet or something because it takes only a few minutes for me , send a ticket to seek support on that or maybe we can help with it, not sure how tho
Mine does like to hang around not starting for 5-10 mins.
When it’s really stuck, best solution I have is close the launcher, open task manager; find everything related to battlenet, including update agents and kill all of them. Re-launch the launcher. Probably work “quicker” now. But sometimes still takes time. After a complete restart of all related processes, just wait.
I honestly don’t think it’s user error at this point, it should not be necessary to re-start the processes in order to have them “just work”.
When I see this I close the launcher and re-open it, this usually resolves this issue. If it doesn’t then I launch the game using the WoW.EXE directly.
I’m not sure why the game even needs a launcher, I’m sure it was capable of self-updating before the wow launcher was a thing. (and if I’m wrong, it’s a long time ago and my memory sucks) I know other games have self-patched without a launcher.
What was wrong with the pre-steam solution of just running games from the start menu
I am more annoyed when I come from WotLK Leveling trying to log-in for the hourly goblin of
and then there is a Retail update.
Mine updates frequently as well; almost daily.
It takes a matter of minutes for me tho, but still quite eyebrow raising since I am sure it does not fix or change anything as my boyfriend sitting next to me does not have the same frequent updates.
I will go through the thread of suggestions to see if anything can fix this for me; just wanted to chime in that I also have a similar issue.
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