Proto:World of Warcraft

This page details one or more prototype versions of World of Warcraft.

To do: There are many more builds than the F&A alphas. The variety of betas also need to be documented. Furthermore the alphas themselves also had many patches that added or changed content. Due to the sheer volume of alphas and betas it may be best to combine expansion prerelease content.

There are several "prototypes" of World of Warcraft in the form of leaked clients from friends and family alpha testing. Blizzard typically refers to "friends and family" as trusted industry insiders, internal users, or industry representatives such as large fansite administrators.

0.5.3.3368 Friends & Family Alpha Earliest leaked client for the original game, dated December 11, 2003.

2.0.0.5610 Friends & Family Alpha Leaked client for The Burning Crusade expansion, dated August 16, 2006.

3.0.1.8303 Friends & Family Alpha Leaked client for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, dated May 6, 2008.

4.0.0.11927 Friends & Family Alpha Leaked client for Cataclysm expansion, dated May 3, 2010.

6.0.1.16125 Friends & Family Alpha Leaked client for Warlords of Draenor expansion, dated April 3, 2014.