I have retail wow and would like to play classic, can I do that?

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I have a retail wow subscription and would like to know if I can play classic wow with the same subscription? Also, I’m on a Mac.

I tried to see if I can log into a classic server but I don’t see where I could do that. Do I need to buy a separate account in order to play wow classic? I thought it was included.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Sure can! Classic WoW and WotLK Classic are perks of your retail subscription. If you’re on your Battle.net launcher page, you can select whichever game you’d like to play. You’ll get the big blue button that says “Install”, but once you get that part taken care of, it’ll go to being “Play” instead.

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^^ This.

Classic is technically ‘free’ - as Leilleath said, part of having a funded retail license.

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This might sound stupid but I don’t know how to get to my “launcher page”. In my WOW files on the Mac there is a World of Warcraft Launcher but when I try to open that I get error “The application World of Warcraft can’t be opened”.

In my World of Warcraft folder I have files’‘’’

retail
retail_WTF
Data
Errors
Launcher db
World of Warcraft Launcher

In the file “retail” is another file called “World of Warcraft” and that I how I open retail.

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To be honest, I have absolutely no clue when it comes to Macs. Now, I’ve given this a cursory watch to make sure this wasn’t some click-bait thing, but it seems to be on the up and up? Perhaps someone else who plays on a Mac will trip over this thread and can be more help than myself? But perhaps this shall at least get the ball rolling for you in the meantime.

[EDIT] Standby. I thought I read it was for Classic. Will update with more appropriate vid ASAP

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Maybe I should post this in the Mac forum?

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That would probably be best. :sweat_smile: I am sorry. This is admittedly the one spot I have no clue in how to advise you. But! At least your initial question was answered?

Hopefully you’ll get things figured out with the folks who hang out over there and be facing down Hogger before you know it (you poor, poor soul).

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That’s good news but HOW can I open wow classic on my Mac?

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I posted my question in Mac Technical Support forum. Hoping for an answer :crossed_fingers:

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I think there’s actually a known issue with the Mac client, this is a possible work around.

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You rock, thank you! I was looking everywhere but where I needed to be looking, apparently.

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There’s actually other updates further in the thread.

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Thank you for that information.

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Do you have to perform an Install even if you already have the regular World of Warcraft?

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If you mean to play classic, then yes, you’d need to download the classic form of that game in order to play it. THe battle.net will have a dropdown to pick what you want to install/play.

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Classic/Seasons, Wrath and Retail all have different clients to install and run. However some share data between the 3 and install in the same folder.

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I play WoW on Mac and can tell ya with confidence that all versions run real nice on the 2022 iMac. That includes classic as well.

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Is there a F2P mode for Classic like there is for regular WoW? Where you can only go to level 20?

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There is no free-to-play option for Classic.

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:frowning_face: