Guild Wars 2

I know it is common with mmo’s but seriously? i just bought the game and now i have to wait 36hrs to play it. so far its been downloading for 10hrs and is 27% done downloading, or 2.5gb done.

My advice for those that have bandwidth restrictions and/or don’t want to wait to download is to get the box version. That way you will have a disk on hand if you ever want to do a faster fresh install later on for whatever reason.

I’m afraid that’s what MMOs are. Content is released, bugs are fixed, etceteras. You just bought the game and 3 months of updates need to come down. What did you expect? This is not a single-player, static game. It’s a game that ever-evolves and also receives frequent content updates.

Sorry, it sucks – but I don’t see how your post contributes anything because it is meaningless and obvious that there is nothing that can be done about a game that updates frequently.

Maybe a better internet connection? Or just have a few glasses of wine and watch some TV whilst it downloads

The problem with that though is on my wife’s laptop, the game won’t install with the discs, it just installs the downloader and starts downloading…

johnpickard.2836:

I know it is common with mmo’s but seriously? i just bought the game and now i have to wait 36hrs to play it. so far its been downloading for 10hrs and is 27% done downloading, or 2.5gb done.

Well your first mistake was buying it, but yeah. Modern MMOs like WoW and RIFT and most have streaming play so you can play within minutes.

Ellixen.1572:

The problem with that though is on my wife’s laptop, the game won’t install with the discs, it just installs the downloader and starts downloading…

Well that does suck then. I wasn’t aware it did that and assumed it had at least a stable prior version on it.

Incoming protip:

For those with multiple computers, update one computer, then copy gw2.dat from that computers installation folder to other computers in the house and replace gw2.dat in their installation folders to save bandwidth/time updating multiple clients.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

I don’t know how slow your Internet is, but it took me only an hour and a half, maybe two, to download the game for the first time back in Beta, and ever since, updates have been downloading very quickly for me. Then again, my average download speed is 1.9MB/s.

Zeldain.5710:

Well your first mistake was buying it, but yeah.

I’ve never understood the people who just hang around the forums to kitten.

Have you, like, got nothing better to do?

Yeah. I had to leave my computer on overnight after re-installing my computer.

It sucks, but it’s also the perfect time to get household stuff out of the way / to read up about the game in the Wiki / browse the Internet until you get to the wierd part / play another game ect.

As someone up above said, you’re better off, if installing on multiple machines, just to download onto one and then copy the .dat file. Lately I’ve taken to keeping a back-up of the .dat file whenever there’s an update just in case, providing you got a spare hard-drive.

Looks like you have a slow internet connection. A little math. 2.5 GB = 2,500 MB, 10 hours = 36,000 seconds. Your transfer rate is 2,500/36,000 = 0.0694 MB/sec (megabytes per second), converting to bits per second 8 × 0.0694 = 0.556 mega bits per second or 556 kilobits per second. The slowest DSL connection I had seen to date was 1.5 megabits per second, which would be 3 times you current transfer rate. What kind of internet connection are you using and what is the advertised data rate? If you are paying for more than above calculated data rates you should contact your ISP.

Be aware that in computer speak, MB can mean either megabit or megabyte depending on the context. For file size it is almost always megabyte while for data rate it is usually megabit. Hence the factor of 8 conversion, 8 bits per byte. And if anyone mentions 2 to the 10th versus 10 to the 3rd in megabyte calculations, well I will rage quit! (not really).

If you get it installed on one computer, you can copy all the files in the directory to another computer and it will work fine without needing to do a reinstall. I have done this so that it works on my wife’s computer (she has her own account) and on both our laptops. I have all the files backed up on a portable hard drive so that there’s never a need to download that huge installation again.

So, you can save yourself a ton of time doing it that way.

MB can mean either megabit or megabyte depending on the context.

Context is secondary to case. A capital ‘B’ means Byte, ie. MB = megabyte, while a lower-case ‘b’ means bit, so Mb = Megabit.

Also, you’ll often see “mb” to refer to ‘megabit’ which is incorrect though sadly all too common, where a lower-case ‘m’ technically means ‘milli’ or ‘one-thousandth’, the opposite of ‘mega’ or ‘million’.

The main thing here is the case of the ‘b’, lower=bit, upper=byte. The case of the ‘m’ is played rather fast and loose, though it matters little as no one uses ‘millibyte’ which of course doesn’t exist.

Confusing, yes. Just watch the ‘b’.

JunkyardWolf.4126:

MB can mean either megabit or megabyte depending on the context.

Context is secondary to case. A capital ‘B’ means Byte, ie. MB = megabyte, while a lower-case ‘b’ means bit, so Mb = Megabit.

Also, you’ll often see “mb” to refer to ‘megabit’ which is incorrect though sadly all too common, where a lower-case ‘m’ technically means ‘milli’ or ‘one-thousandth’, the opposite of ‘mega’ or ‘million’.

The main thing here is the case of the ‘b’, lower=bit, upper=byte. The case of the ‘m’ is played rather fast and loose, though it matters little as no one uses ‘millibyte’ which of course doesn’t exist.

Confusing, yes. Just watch the ‘b’.

^^ This.

Mb = Megabit, MB = Megabyte.

Also, based on OP’s experience, I’d say his download speed is slow as hell if it took him that long to download the game. > >;

JunkyardWolf.4126:

MB can mean either megabit or megabyte depending on the context.

Context is secondary to case. A capital ‘B’ means Byte, ie. MB = megabyte, while a lower-case ‘b’ means bit, so Mb = Megabit.

Also, you’ll often see “mb” to refer to ‘megabit’ which is incorrect though sadly all too common, where a lower-case ‘m’ technically means ‘milli’ or ‘one-thousandth’, the opposite of ‘mega’ or ‘million’.

The main thing here is the case of the ‘b’, lower=bit, upper=byte. The case of the ‘m’ is played rather fast and loose, though it matters little as no one uses ‘millibyte’ which of course doesn’t exist.

Confusing, yes. Just watch the ‘b’.

Technically yes but in common usage how many get it incorrect? It is not uncommon to see DSL rates quoted as 1.5 MB per second. Consider for example mAh – milli Amp hour – why is only the A capitalized? Answer, because it stands for Ampere, named after the scientist Andre-Marie Ampere. The proper capitalization in electrical units is something I casually observe on packaging and documentation. A suprizing number of products are technically incorrect.