Guild Wars 2

hey, i just finished installing the game from hard disks and i thought that like other games when it gets to around 50% i would swap disks, but it just kept going to 100%. i’m thinking dont fix what isnt broken. i just want to know if anyone else had this or if i’m missing something, it never asked me to put in the 2nd disk. any ideas?

It automatically downloaded the required files from the internet.

No MMO is on the disc that comes with the box. That’s the basic programmer. The downloader. MMOs change so fast that the software in the box is often outdated by the time it ships. Now, a year later, it’s way outdated.

You use the discs to get the core program but everything else is downloaded from the web. The discs themselves are actually irrelevant at this point.

oh, ok so why do they send the 2nd disk? and if what i’m really buying is the code and the software comes from the internet, then why dont they make it so you just buy the code and they send it to you in an email? it would be faster and they wouldnt have to make the hard disks, which cost them.

There are services that do that. If you buy it from the Guild Wars 2 website, that’s what you get… a code. When you buy an MMO you’re not actually buying a program…you’re buying an account….access to a world.

The disc thing is a remnant of times gone by. I strongly suspect in another few years, no online game will ship with a disc.

I mean even consoles now have to download updates before you can play certain games. That trend is only going to increase.

Vayne.8563:

There are services that do that. If you buy it from the Guild Wars 2 website, that’s what you get… a code. When you buy an MMO you’re not actually buying a program…you’re buying an account….access to a world.

The disc thing is a remnant of times gone by. I strongly suspect in another few years, no online game will ship with a disc.

I mean even consoles now have to download updates before you can play certain games. That trend is only going to increase.

A little off topic, but I like how Anet (and Blizzard, and other developers too) gives you download capability once you bought the CD. I mean, I left my Starcraft installer discs at my parent’s home but because I have registered my serial, I can download it and play the game. And it’s not even an MMO!!!

I am still old-school, for non-MMO games, I would much rather that approach be given to me. I have the CD which I can install and play offline, then, when the need to install the game somewhere else where I don’t have access to my CD, that I can still do it.