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Alastor:
This is all about one thing :D .... we dont have >>> Source of WoW.exe <<<
can you just imagine what we could do with that source ?

Selaya:
Hmm, wasn`t there a thread awhile ago where someone claimed he`s successfully reverse-engineered, then rebuilt it from scratch?
No one really took him at face value tho as he`s been new here, but didn`t schlumpf (or someone else, can`t recall) then said that he`s / they`ve done the same?

Milly:

--- Quote from: "Selaya" ---Hmm, wasn`t there a thread awhile ago where someone claimed he`s successfully reverse-engineered, then rebuilt it from scratch?
No one really took him at face value tho as he`s been new here, but didn`t schlumpf (or someone else, can`t recall) then said that he`s / they`ve done the same?
--- End quote ---
I remember that. It was a rather questionable topic. I find it hard to believe that it's been successfully done before. If someone is capable of doing it, and has a reason to do it, then clearly they're a capable programmer. Why wouldn't they then take advantage of the opportunity and create a super server?

Could be wrong but it's just very difficult to believe. There's so much one could do with WoW's source.

Selaya:
There isn`t that much in the wow.exe actually, tbh - it`s just 7.3 MiB after all. I`d guess that the bulk of those are the actual engines (graphics, et cetera)
Most of the interesting stuff`s defined in the .mpqs with .lua, .xml, .dbc et cetera.

schlumpf:
But you know how much 7MB are in assmbly?

Also, that "I recompiled wow from source" or "I have the whole client decompiled" is just bogus. While possible, it is equivalent to copying the file. Actually having the source is way different.

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