Common updating problems and tips for fixing them
It’s patch day, of course, and people are having plenty of troubles with upgrading their clients to the latest 3.1 version. But worry not — most of the issues we’re seeing, while relatively widespread, should be fixed by the time the realms come back online. Here’s a few tips to help you get through the time of trouble. Help! My patch isn’t downloading? It’s stuck at 68%/73%/xx%! It probably is downloading — be patient and let it run. Blizzard uses a Bittorrent-based system to distribute the game’s patches through the official client, and those systems depend not just on Blizzard and their ability to distribute the patch, but also how much of the patch all of your peers have. If everyone around you has xx%, that’s all you’ll get for now. But an hour from now, someone will have spread the full patch around, and then you’ll pick it up no problem. Patience is a virtue, and until the realms come back up, you can’t play anyway. Also, the patcher will stop showing progress around 70% or so — at that point it’ll start
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