freeza7886: Remember when something would go wrong like 3/4 way through and you had to start all over again lol

Zero-GX: The fifth disc came later. Earlier copies of Vanilla were only 4 discs. it even says it on the cd as in "disc 1of4".

andrewmaughan1205: The 1st time I installed wow, it took 8 disc's. 5 for the base game & 3 for then Burning Crusades expansion. That's not even counting the time installing the updates afterwards. Day 1 of BC literally took about 24 hours to get into the game fresh.

johanlahti84: Mine has 4 discs and my borther that started playing like a year later have 5 discs

wwefrederik: I have a 4 disk copy and a 6 disk copy

MrAleB305: I never installed the game using disks but I remember downloading it during TBC took me like a solid 24 hours or so

DonQuixoteSosa: “It was 100% four” INSTANT ban

whawk8: Ah the good old days

Strangeworkings: That's modern politics in a nutshell "It's a 100% 4" "I literally just showed you 5"

Boosticuff: I remember it was 5 discs and I bought it in 2006 sometime. Lots of people saying the original release was 4 discs.

SpaceTimeDroste: bought wow at the end of November 2004 and I have no idea how many disks there were

kaopua1972: When we had to upgrade our comp for every expansion is when it was too much.

Dabcart: If I remember correctly. One of the disc wasn't something you could install.

chypres89: M y box has 4 discs.

Kripplerlol: At one point in MoP, I had to reformat my hard drive. I guess I had left my discs at my parents house at the time. Luckily you could download the everything online then, but my internet was so slow that it took almost 30 hours to finish. Things sure have changed lol

givemebush: I downloaded WoW with my Xanadoo router witch took like 2 days just to realize my the old dell laptop I had didn’t have anywhere near enough storage. I was also like 7

taylurjack: I had an eMachines..... it took days to get it downloaded without the pc shutting itself off

kainemead3307: I remember downloading all off these

lordcrispen: I wanted to troll and say 4 discs on launch box: one for each race.

Island360: Bought vanilla the day it came out and I have 4 discs in mine

stoned9017: It was 4 discs at release.

Sean11194: Shit use to confuse me I’d have the game fully downloaded then when my mum let me buy the battlechest I deleted the entire game and reinstalled it with the discs I was so confused and it took forever

conradvd7262: It took me 2 weeks to download back in the day

R.A.D.G59: I love my fiber internet.

Scudzzorz15: 10000000 percent 4. Before 3 moves I had it.

Oct 26 2025

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