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i downloaded world of warcraft but it wont let me play it

Asked by nick foster

i downloaded a private server of world of warcraft and used qBittoreent v2 6.9 to do so the process went fine but when it finished and i tryed double clicking the Wow.exe it said

 Archive: /home/nick/qBT_dir/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (no install)/Wow.exe
[/home/nick/qBT_dir/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (no install)/Wow.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/nick/qBT_dir/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (no install)/Wow.exe or
          /home/nick/qBT_dir/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (no install)/Wow.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/nick/qBT_dir/World of Warcraft 3.3.5a (no install)/Wow.exe.ZIP, period.

not sure what to do PLEASE HELP! =D

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said : 		#1

World of Warcraft is a game supported only on Windows and Mac OS. You can try to install it using WINE, but it's not secure that it works.
Try to read here from the community support for ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

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