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Title: Client download? Post by: WindupAtheist on June 02, 2005, 07:29:55 PM Bored enough to give this another try, but lost my discs and I'm not paying another fifty bucks. Anyone know where I can download the client?
Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Trippy on June 02, 2005, 07:43:56 PM Annoyingly enough WoW is one of the few MMORPGs that doesn't have a front-end patching system, otherwise I would send you that piece and you could download the rest of the game data through that.
Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Dren on June 03, 2005, 05:27:21 AM Even if you could download the client, you're gonna need a keycode to start playing. You'll have to shell out $50 for that anyway. If you lost it, you're SOL.
Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Trippy on June 03, 2005, 05:39:39 AM Even if you could download the client, you're gonna need a keycode to start playing. You'll have to shell out $50 for that anyway. If you lost it, you're SOL. The keycode is paired with your account name on Blizzard's servers when you activate your account -- it's not required during install like it is for many non-MMO games and it's not stored locally on your machine. To put it another way once the client is installed on a machine anybody with a WoW account can sign on a play on that machine.Title: Re: Client download? Post by: WindupAtheist on June 03, 2005, 05:41:10 AM And I have a deactivated account just waiting to be renewed. So come on my nerdly minions, we all know everything in the universe is on teh intarweb. :wink:
Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Amp on June 03, 2005, 08:07:48 AM http://www.fileplanet.com/147141/140000/fileinfo/World-of-Warcraft-Open-Beta-Client-%5BBeta-Keys-Gone%5D
well you can try that Now sure it they still actually have it up but if I recall (someone here could clairfy) the beta client will patch into the full client. I don't have a file planet account so I can't check if the file is still there but i'm guessing it probably is. Just make an account with fileplanet and try I guess. Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Dren on June 03, 2005, 08:55:04 AM Even if you could download the client, you're gonna need a keycode to start playing. You'll have to shell out $50 for that anyway. If you lost it, you're SOL. The keycode is paired with your account name on Blizzard's servers when you activate your account -- it's not required during install like it is for many non-MMO games and it's not stored locally on your machine. To put it another way once the client is installed on a machine anybody with a WoW account can sign on a play on that machine.My bad. You're right now that I think about the last time I installed WoW. Not enough caffeine in the system yet. Title: Re: Client download? Post by: WindupAtheist on June 03, 2005, 03:45:54 PM Download a beta client and patch it up to spec?
*head explodes at memories of the shitty wannabe-Torrent download system and 2kbps transfer rates* Title: Re: Client download? Post by: Viin on June 03, 2005, 04:05:41 PM Looks like you can download some of the patches, Googlefoo ftw:
http://patches.gamez.com/sage/games.x?gid=13699&page=patches There's probably better sites out there, but I didn't bother to look since *I* didn't lose *my* $75 discs. |