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by grimman 4240 days ago
This only allows for a streaming install. It's without question definitely primarily stored on the individual users' harddrives. Once you've downloaded the textures/models/whatever, you will not be requesting them from the server ever again.
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Yeah there's even an open source map viewer, all you need is the DVD: http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net/