Guild Wars 2

Still patching…

Talking to guildies that have been in game for 15+ minutes.

Last file taking forever and downloading at very low speed (60ishKB/sec). Rest of download went by 200-400KB/sec.

Closed patcher and restarted. Still slow.

Grrrr.

Yeah last file can take a while. Remember, lots of ppl are downloading at once.

Hang in there

And, yet I still don’t understand why it is that GW2’s new content updates are 15 – 30 times the size of other MMO’s , such as FF xiv. And, they (FF xiv) SE can take away temporary holiday content without an update. Don’t get me wrong, I’m truly excited for the new update (altho w/my kitten isp may take hours), and am really sad about the changes & destruction in LA. After all, it was entertaining just to read map chat), but I loved the place, warts and all.

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And, yet I still don’t understand why it is that GW2’s new content updates are 15 – 30 times the size of other MMO’s , such as FF xiv. And, they (FF xiv) SE can take away temporary holiday content without an update. Don’t get me wrong, I’m truly excited for the new update (altho w/my kitten isp may take hours), and am really sad about the changes & destruction in LA. After all, it was entertaining just to read map chat), but I loved the place, warts and all.

They can do this because all of that content is already downloaded onto your HDD. Each individual map is pre-rendered for each specific holiday. This is good and bad. Good because it means you don’t need to update whenever an event begins/ends, bad because it can take up a huge amount of space to have all those pre-rendered maps. It’s also bad because it means there is no variation in each holiday event.