There are alot of questions around regarding the possibility to play the game on launch through the beta client. It was possible for the TBC client, but I wanted to ask whether anyone has done it after 3.0.3 patch and how.

A plea to moderators: Please don't lock this thread! While this issue is a luxury situation in US, we have several major problems getting the right language for our client over here in europe. The problem is partly on the blizzard's behalf, because they reject to add an universal update option on their updating procedure.

For example, I have the english GB version of the game running, however all stores here only sell the german version of Wotlk.

Anyways, while blizzard employees don't want to give any advise and suggest that this solution will not be perfect either way, I would like to ask whether anyone has managed to log on to the game via the beta client after the 3.0.3 patch.

Thank you.

If memory serves, there is a difference. The last beta client build was 9195, while the patch pushed today is 9183. Unless there's another patch on day 1, the beta client may have a version mismatch.

9155 is the latest beta build, so its actually lower than live and i doubt you can patch beta client with a live-patch.

you can change the language back to german in the wow-launcher application. besides of the inconvenience of having to play a german wow, you should be fine. (and, of course, someday changing the language back to en-gb and having to patch your client again).

maybe the wotlk install dvd will have all european language packs available ...

Delete please.

If I remember correctly what happened with BC, I had to play with the french client for a few hours while the public torrent for the leaked enGB version was finishing, then just installed that instead. Sure thing is, there will be a torrent, and if we're lucky it will be up even before the real release. For BC I remember I had my game the day before it was released because shops were selling it already.

It's not a big issue really, just make a copy of your wow dir, then change language on either, use that to patch with your store bought dvd until you get the torrent for the english client. Only an issue if you're struggling with hard drive space.

We may be able to get around it by using lichking.mpq, patch2.mpq and patch.mpq from beta on the current live version.

I have seen the installer of WotLK on a german games news page and it looks like they indeed included all european language versions onto the DVD.



Wether it will be the language pack or the "real" version (enGB instead of deDE), we have to see.

I am in the same position. When WoW was first released I was in Great Britain and bought my copy over there (engGB).
For BC I got myself a enGB copy via ebay. Now that I live in Switzerland I preordered at Gamestop.
I hope that WotLK really includes all language versions or that I can just patch the beta client.

Because you can not install a deDE version ontop of the enGB version of the game, that is the problem.

Update Beta and Live to the lastest build (9155 / 9183).
Copy the wow.exe, launcher.exe and the realmlist.wtf from the original wow to the beta folder.
Thats all there is to do, atleast i can login with that on live and can play. Will see if thats enough for wotlk release.

Language Pack and switching to English is all that's needed... they fixed that some time before BC and made the game more flexible for different languages. I play in English and will buy the German edition of WOTLK (just like TBC before it) and don't expect that to cause any issues.

If you don't have the German client you could download and install it to avoid issues with different language editions of WOTLK. I think it is available through account management.

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