Ventura wrote on Dec 20, 2019, 21:28:
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 20, 2019, 18:16:
whatever you do don’t try anything more than the mere basics of troubleshooting ... because we are ... the uber entitled ... pc ... master ... race
Such as disabling your firewall and adding commands to the launcher shortcut before running it, that kinda thing? I don't know, maybe google just likes you more than me today, but nothing that's been proposed as a fix worked for me.
I've just left it running now. "Please wait while we start your service". Yeah yeah yeah. Been at least a couple hours now.
It's pretty funny, I just want a new game to play and the survival update to World War Z ticks all the boxes, but I literally... cannot... buy... it.
Restart your computer ( it fixes the stupidest things)
I think I saw your Reddit.
It appears to be a rare bug or the internet would have gone full thermo nuclear mode by now.
You might try something like revouninstaller and use it to nuke every folder, registry entry and every bit of leftover detritus after uninstalling.
https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo-uninstaller-free-download/This comment was edited on Dec 20, 2019, 22:00.
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