Guild Wars 2

Greetings!

I just bought my wife a physical copy of Heart of Thorns and all she needs to do is pick it up from the store.

My wife doesn’t have the best internet speed in the world so downloading the entire game online will take a millenia. So I was just wondering will the physical copy installation actually help get most of the game installed right away? And if it does, how much memory for the patch needs to be downloaded after install?

Thank you very much in advanced!

There is just a account key in the box. No CD. You will have most of the information for the game already, so it should not be too much. .

BrotherBelial.3094:

There is just a account key in the box. No CD. You will have most of the information for the game already, so it should not be too much. .

If the OP purchased a boxed physical copy then there is indeed both a CD and a game code in the box. This is the version I purchased as well.

I live with a 30gig internet data cap per month, and was also concerned about the size of the download EVEN WITH the CD copy. I actually waited to install until Nov. when my data allotment reset. It turns out I needn’t have bothered as it seems the vast bulk of the HoT download occurred with the Oct. 23rd game update anyway.

It won’t help, it just runs the installer, detects a newer version on-line and downloads that instead.

Take a copy of someone’s gw2.dat file (currently 25-30GB so will need a 32+GB usb drive), start the install process then when it starts downloading, cancel it and copy the gw2.dat file in to the install folder, replacing the partial one the download started. Then run gw2.exe and you should be good.