I am also from South Africa and I also can’t get past the 2nd patch preparation screen. (12:04pm here – started at 7am this morning) .
Just drops to 0kb/s. Left the 1st patch overnight just to wake up to a 2nd patch. Apparently to fix the fist. I have honestly never in my entire life had so much trouble with ANY patcher. Not even the really crappy Free 2 Play games. I wish they would make a site were you can manually download or something… anything at this point would be better than to sit though this. I am restarting my launcher like crazy.
Good luck guys. Think this is going to be along day.
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