Wrath of the Lich King will ship on DVD only

by Samuel Axon Sep 27th 2008 at 9:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Expansions, News items

One of the most annoying things about installing World of Warcraft is that chances are your installer discs are in CD format, hence it's "discs" instead of "disc." That means you do a lot of swapping CDs out while installing the game. Okay, so that's obviously not a deal breaker, but it's still annoying. We have good news: both the Collector's and regular editions of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion will ship on DVD. Hurray! We already knew this about the Collector's Edition, but that the regular edition will too is good news.

Here's the bad news: they'll only ship on DVD. So if you're got a really, really old computer (and WoW will run on really, really old computers so you might), you'll be scat outta luck. That is, until a digital download version comes out. Inevitably it will, of course, but it probably won't be on day one. No Death Knight for you!

Thankfully, this is not 1997, so we imagine that only a very tiny minority of WoW players will be bothered. And if you are affected, go buy a DVD drive for 20 bucks, you cheapskate! We thought we'd give you the heads up just in case.

Tags: cd, cd-rom, collectors-edition, digital-download, disc, dvd, dvd-rom, expansion, media, world-of-warcraft, wotlk, wow, wrath-of-the-lich-king

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Harmen said on 9:54AM 9-27-2008

Can't remember the last time I bought an actual disc with a game. Or with music, for that matter. Would be weird if Blizzard doesn't make a download available on day one; it's 2008 after all.

SgtBaker said on 12:08PM 9-27-2008

WoW actually sends your hardware profile back the the Blizzard mothership periodically so they have numbers on this.
Previously they've released on CD's because significant percentage of people still used CD-drives. Looks like people have been buying new computers :-)

Ghen said on 7:18PM 9-28-2008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136147

$23, free shipping. No excuse not to have DVD in your machine. And hey, it comes with lightscribe which is worthless but fun to talk about.