Guild Wars 2

Dragon bash is here.

Oh great. But I’m busy trying to complete a different zone, and as with southsun, I don’t really give a a standing poop.

But I have to wait 30 min for my computer to chug through a totally unnecessary download (and some of us still have bandwidth caps you know) before I can play.

How about doing as GW1 did and loading in the background while you play? And if you must enter a zone before its updatded, then and only then do you have to wait. Let’s see … I’ve still got at least five min before I can play. Should I keep ranting, or get a beer?

Stoopid, Anet. Stoopid.

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Seriously? I hated the loading screens in GW1 when you didn’t know about updates then suddenly you would have to hold your group up while people with different net speeds or caps had to load up for ages.

Also; Unnecessary download? You would prefer if people could pick and choose which updated they wanted?

I take your point, Jam. I too have had that issue in GW1. But the trouble is that Anet has not solved the problem but moved it. That was the point of my rant. I’d planned to meet up with some guys and finish a zone – but by the time my trusty cable connection had clanked its way through the dragon bash download and I could log in, they were long gone.

At least in GW1 if you were doing a dungeon, you didn’t have to worry about a bash in LA till you got there. Now everyone has to wait through the downloads, so you can’t schedule ANYTHING.

I don’t plan on going to LA for a bit. But I still have to download the event files, and suffer through a further download when they put everything back again afterward. So yup, unnecessary it is.

Moriturus sum.2069:

…if you must enter a zone before its updatded, then and only then do you have to wait…

Since Dragon Bash nonse is splashed pretty liberally over the entire game, you’d probably have to wait wherever you’d hoped to go.

Even if it were possible to load into a prior version of the game, your friends had downloaded already, and would not have been in “your” version because they were in the new one. That happened in GW1, also.