Is this normal? (Game Download question)

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Posted by: WildHare.3249

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Q:

UPS just delivered Guild Wars 2, yay! After going through the install process with the disks, I’m currently showing that I’m downloading 163MB (it changes every time I look at it, but it’s always around there, but seems to be rising) and 165k+ files. Boo!

Before I take this to the Tech Support forum, I thought I’d ask here first, just in case this is totally normal. Is this normal?

The main reason I bought the physical copy of the game was to avoid a super long download process. This could take days….

(Also, I tried adding the streaming to my target line in the shortcut, but that hasn’t given me a mark on the download line showing when the game will be playable. A restart didn’t help.)

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

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I seem to be bouncing between 160kb/s and 180kb/s. The launcher now says: Downloading: 789MB and only 5% done.

@Flesh — I added -Streaming Client to the target line of the launcher shortcut, but don’t see a mark on my download line showing when the game is playable. Advice?

@Soul — I hope so, too! It looks fantastic!

@Vayne — You had me at “wardrobe feature” — Thanks for the welcome

Did you add, -Streaming Client or -StreamingClient (without the space). If you put in a space that’s probably why no mark has shown on the bar.

Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

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The cd you got was from the vanilla version of the game.
And even then it was basically only the launcher.

Since then there have been massive amounts of stuff added to the client.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Release

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Posted by: WildHare.3249

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Oy. Alright. While I’m disturbed that I can’t jump right in, I’m soothed by the fact that I now understand why. Thank you, Lord Krall.

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

Are you actually only downloading at 17KB/s? I hate to tell you this but at that speed it will take several days to fully download. At least the streaming client will let you get In before it finishes.

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Posted by: Endless Soul.5178

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Expect the .dat file to reach 20+GB (mine is 20.4 GB).

Hope to see you in game soon.

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

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This is true for all MMOs. When you buy a driving game, you get the entire game, pretty much in the box. Very little is added. When you buy an MMO you’re buying the game and the history of the game.

MMOs change and evolve all the time, at least the good ones do. So you have a game that keeps on giving.

Since launch there have been 3 new zones, and some new story, and some new items you can get, and some new jumping puzzles and some new PvP maps, and a new map called Edge of the Mists, none of which could have been included in the disc, because they were added after the disc was pressed.

There’s a new wardrobe feature, an account wallet and a bunch of other stuff as well.

Welcome to the game.

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Posted by: WildHare.3249

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I seem to be bouncing between 160kb/s and 180kb/s. The launcher now says: Downloading: 789MB and only 5% done.

@Flesh — I added -Streaming Client to the target line of the launcher shortcut, but don’t see a mark on my download line showing when the game is playable. Advice?

@Soul — I hope so, too! It looks fantastic!

@Vayne — You had me at “wardrobe feature” — Thanks for the welcome

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

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A couple of things that might be helpful to know:

1) You can stop the download at any point and when you restart the launcher it will resume from where it left off.

2) The percentage is based on the number of files, not the number of kb left. So sometimes it will jump up and other times it will appear to have frozen even though the download rate is above 0 and the number of kb/mb downloaded is going up.

And also if you restart it the percentage will go back to 0, because it’s based on files remaining.

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Thanks, Danikat! Your response made me think of another question — I have my computer set to never sleep (I sleep it manually when I’m done for the day/night):

Will the download slow/stop if I put it to sleep before I go to bed tonight?

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Posted by: WildHare.3249

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Did you add, -Streaming Client or -StreamingClient (without the space). If you put in a space that’s probably why no mark has shown on the bar.

I could kiss you! I did indeed have a space. Got rid of it and now have a playable mark! I should be able to get into character creation in the next couple of hours!