Client download?

[WindupAtheist]

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?

[Trippy]

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.

[Dren]

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.

[Trippy]

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.

[WindupAtheist]

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.   

[Amp]

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.

[Dren]

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.

[WindupAtheist]

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*

[Viin]

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.