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It’s a closely guarded secret, but widely available if you know where to look. Blizzard Entertainment’s hugely popular multiplayer game World of Warcraft requires a monthly subscription of $14.95 USD. However, many of the eight million players cannot justify the monthly subscript costs so this sparks a revolt of sorts – to find a solution to playing warcraft for free.

Now this is something not unheard of in the world of computer games. This is on similar lines of creating different means of accessing software such as Windows XP or its recent version of Windows Vista. The operating mantra is that people are unwilling to pay for the software because it is easy to get them for free. It has been witnessed that when people are compelled to do something, the incidence of rebellion is higher.

In this quest, the ever growing popularity of the game has spawned what are called Warcraft emulation servers. Essentially, these are private servers offered for free to anyone wishing to play. The code behind these emulation servers is completely written using open source software that is publicly available. This then avoids any legal ramifications from reverse engineering software, which is protected by US law.

The best part is that these private servers are totally free! The only pre-condition is that the character you play with on these servers, you are not supposed to employ the identical character on Blizzard Entertainment’s official server. But that’s really insignificant because the private servers have a large community of their own. And what’s more- they are more welcoming than the official Blizzard server community.

Bracing yourself for the World of Warcraft? Just need to do a few things before you embark on the game. Begin with the hunt for a private server. Now that is easy. Just go on to any search engine and punch in the words “warcraft emulation” or “world of warcraft private server”.

Now lets look at how to utilize this private server.

1. Begin by downloading the World of Warcraft client. It is widely accessible. You can find it at the company site as well

2. Now run the installation of the client. Make sure all the updates are in place.

3. Now you need to locate a private server and note down its address. In fact try and keep a few different addresses handy, so that if one is busy, you can avail the other.

4. Lastly, you have to edit the ‘realms list’ file. This is located in the ‘C’ drive with the path C:Program FilesWorld of Warcraft realmlist.wtf. Here you type the address of the private server that you noted down in step 3. With this, you are now ready to play!

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