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World of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and Mac OS X.

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Our mission

The Whoa and Thunderbrew projects are based on the mission of recreating a faithful and open-source implementation of the 3.3.5a client.

The game and its libraries have become significantly more complex in the intervening 10+ years. By picking 3.3.5a, it's possible to imagine our implementation will eventually be complete.

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-The Whoa and Thunderbrew projects are based on the mission of recreating a faithful and open-source implementation of the World of Warcraft 3.3.5a.12340 Wrath of the Lich King client.
+[[Category:Software]]
+{{Software
+ |name        = World of Warcraft
+ |image       = WoW Box Art.jpg
+ |type        = Computer game
+ |authors     = [[Blizzard Entertainment]]
+ |license     = Proprietary
+}}
-== Why work with 3.3.5a mainly? ==
+'''''World of Warcraft''''' ('''''WoW''''') is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by [[Blizzard Entertainment]] for [[WoW:Windows port|Windows]] and [[WoW:Mac OS X port|Mac OS X]].
-The game and its libraries have become significantly more complex in the intervening 10+ years. By picking 3.3.5a, it's possible to imagine our implementation will eventually be complete.
+== Client ==
-== Study ==
+== Server ==
-Many attempts have been made throughout history to study the internals of this client.
+== Our mission ==
-== Compilers ==
+The [[Whoa]] and [[Thunderbrew]] projects are based on the mission of recreating a faithful and open-source implementation of the [[WoW:3.3.5a|3.3.5a client]].
-On Windows, the client was known to be compiled using the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler{{cn}}.
+The game and its libraries have become significantly more complex in the intervening 10+ years. By picking 3.3.5a, it's possible to imagine our implementation will eventually be complete.