Then we shall force it!
Will be a small update in about 10 minutes..
Not working for me either, win 8.1.
Neither online, group or solo.
Would be nice to have a debugging window or text dialog that runs through what happens.
So we can see where it hangs.
Just a spinning ship without knowing where it fails is just irritating and frustrating because we can only say "hangs on spinning ship" while there is maybe a lot going on behind the screens.
A cancel button would be nice 2.