Make sure you patch the game first.
I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching.
I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly not being able to play at all!
This time, it is the Blizzard Launcher that decided it won’t work. Spews out an error saying the “The tracker is not responding” plus this error log:
10/13/08 02:11:36.0890 Failed to connect to tracker.
10/13/08 02:11:20.4060 Connecting to: http://us.tracker.worldofwarcraft.com:3724/announce with 1
10/13/08 02:11:20.4050 No UPnP Device Found.
10/13/08 02:11:20.4050 Getting UPnPDevice Information
10/13/08 02:11:20.4040 Creating UPnPEngine interface
10/13/08 02:11:20.4030 Success!
10/13/08 02:11:20.4020 Creating Microsoft Firewall Rule: Blizzard Downloader: 3724
10/13/08 02:11:20.4020 Success!
10/13/08 02:11:20.4010 Creating Firewall interface
10/13/08 02:11:20.4010 Success!
10/13/08 02:11:20.4000 Enabling Blizzard Downloader on Windows Firewall
10/13/08 02:11:20.4000 Success!
10/13/08 02:11:20.3990 Enabling Microsoft Firewall UPnP Framework
10/13/08 02:11:20.3990 Success!
10/13/08 02:11:20.3980 Creating Firewall interface
10/13/08 02:11:20.3980 Downloader initializing…
And on and on it goes.
So I went to check Google which gave me a lot of WoW gold for sale (useless), the Blizzard help page (none of which helped), and the forum page (which had some useful suggestions like running the program as admin) but none worked. I even shut down all the firewalls, spykillers, and antiviruses as a desperate measure. But no cigar. I wrote to tech support but realise they won’t be able to respond till 24 hours later cos it is still Sunday there.
Now the question is whether I have given up a whole day (two really, if there is a fix) or a whole month. Regardless, several hours have been wasted already trying to fix this and now I think I should waste no more and go to sleep.
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