So i was able to play TOW last Thursday. Then today when I tried to play I got stuck on the loading screen right after the "Press any key" (I press any key, text disappear, and that's it). I tried to reinstall the game, update windows, unplug USB stuff (yes I read that on some site), tried to start the game without being connected to microsoft... that works but I have no saves, so I ahve to start over. 

Please help.

I came across something similar, seems in the background it was asking for permission to access the net so as soon as i bought up the task manager i could see it was asking for permission on the task bar, pressed ok and it moved onto the next menu to play the game.