Of course it's possible. It has been possible since the game came out, 5 years ago this month. I still find however that many people are surprised you can play any games on Linux. So, I decided to post a "diary" of the installation and configuration of World of Warcraft 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.10, not to be informative to experienced users, but to be at least passively interesting to the non-linux WoW player. And to affirm to myself that it's actually as easy as I assume it is, since I've never done it. It should be noted that I'm using the WINE 1.1.33 beta on Ubuntu 9.10 x64.I started by downloading and running the install program from worldofwarcraft.com, and selecting Wrath of the Lich King to install. I'm not excited yet - it takes a long, long, long time to download and install this game, even with a fast connection.
Only 893 hours later, installation was complete!
So I should be able to play now, right? I have wobbly WoW! Yay! Except the download from Blizzard does not include any patches, and the upgrade to 3.2 is another one and a quarter gigs. No problem, I'm a patient guy. I'll just harass people in the realm forums, for the meantime. 30 minutes and 1.23GB later, I have a patched version of World of Warcraft installed and running smoothly on my laptop. Once that's installed, it's just half a dozen more patches, WoW restarts and scrolling clicking "I agree" about eleventy billion times. Annoying. Anyway, after all that I was finally patched and ready to play WoW. So I installed my favorite addons and hooray! World of Warcraft for Linux! I know! This blog was totally uneventful!
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