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2/18/2011 8:49:00 PM
Steve Kaye wrote:
> On 18/02/2011 18:34, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 8:18 am, Steve Kaye<nos...@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 18/02/2011 12:54, Tigero wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 18, 2:26 pm, Steve Kaye<nos...@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:12:16 -0800 (PST), Tigero<boain...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> greetings,
>>>
>>>>>> I bought a new Mac and want to install WoW on it. I gave up trying to
>>>>>> download it since the installer won't connect to the Internet. I
>>>>>> decided to buy the discs to save time but do I have to buy all disks
>>>>>> (vanilla, tbc, wotlk) or will the cataclysm disk be enough?
>>>
>>>>> Do you not have the install disks? How did you install it on your
>>>>> previous computer?
>>>
>>>>> Anyway, you're going to have to patch after you've installed and if
>>>>> the installer won't connect to the internet then the patcher won't
>>>>> either. I think that you're better off fixing the installer problem.
>>>
>>>> I got installation disks for vanilla and tbc. the rest were downloaded
>>>> on my older pc
>>>
>>>> so will the cataclysm disk be enough?
>>>
>>> I think so. I think that each expansion includes a full install, not
>>> just the install for that expansion.
>>
>> I don't think that is the case; you need to install them all. Note
>> that Blizzard has a special deal selling Vanilla& BC together
>> ('Battlechest'), and the games are discounted at most retailers.
>> Still, it might take around $100 to get up and running.
>
> You need to buy WoW, TBC and Wrath to play Cataclysm. But he has
> already done that. I think that Cataclysm will contain the full game
> and the data for all the expansions, not just the Cataclysm expansion.
>
> steve.kaye
In a nutshell - you need to own a license for all 4, you don't need to
own all 4 disks. I only own 2 physical discs, the BC and Wrath. If he
already has all these things and was playing on an old PC, and now has a
new one, then all the info needed to allow him access to download all
content is already on his account on battle.net. To start a fresh
download from scratch, he would need only one disk - that's it. I don't
even own a copy of Vanilla, as my account was converted from a trial.
(I don't know if someone with an existing account, can download the
trial version on a fresh machine, and then convert it to an existing
just to get the basic content in - never tried that)
Anyway, any of them will work, as if he only put in vanilla, it would
load in the version on the CD and then ask him to log in. As soon as he
entered his loggin data, the servers would note the disparity between
his account status (cata) and his version (vanilla) and start dumping in
all the content needed to bring his account up to date, and he could go
do somthing else for the next 5-8 hours... lol.
I remember doing it this way with my laptop before I realized that I can
just copy the WoW folder over from one machine to another in 30 minutes
and be done.
But all this aside, the basic point of the OP, was that he could nto get
his downloader working, which he has to do. The discs aren't going to
be much help after the basic info is dumped in. Downloader is still
going to want to connect and update asap.