world of warcraft
I just reinstalled world of warcraft. I own up to Mists of Pandaria.
Once I tried to start the game it said it had like over 20gb worth of data to download before I could play.
Is there any way to get this data on dvd/bluray as I have a slow connection and a low data allowance??
You cannot play the original World of Warcraft as Cataclysm changed the map, starting areas, and other things significantly.
To clarify, this does not require you to buy any of the expansions, but it does require you to patch your game so that you're on the current version of the game. Even without buying the expansions there are many changes that will effect how you experience the game.
For whatever reason, Internet Explorer (which I never use) was set to "work offline". For whatever reason, with Internet Explorer set to work offline, the Diablo 3 installer was failing to do anything other than time out.
I disabled "work offline" by unchecking "Work Offline" in the file menu (available by pressing the ALT key in newer versions of Windows/Internet Explorer);
Once this option was disabled, everything worked first time.
Best Answer
As others have already said in the comments, the best way is to find a friend/neighbor/acquaintance that owns the game. You can move the WoW installation folder freely between machines and it surely saves time opposed to downloading 20 GB of data.
Another way may be to find someone that is willing to download the client for you. Downloading the client doesn't require an active subscription, just the registration to battle.net, and at the same time you can invite this friend to try the game with the 10-day trial.
Installing from the installation discs instead only saves part of the hassle, since the version available in the boxed version of MoP still has to be updated to the latest version of the game.