Guild Wars 2

i had a horrific crash with my computer last month and lost everything on it after win had to be freshly installed. now i am very worried that all my progress and character are lost as well. does this game cloud sync or am i very busted? please tell me its not the latter!!

All your progress and stuff is safe.

All your character’s progress is saved on Anet’s servers.

You can access your game account and all your progress from any computer that has GW2 installed. Thus, you have lost no items, characters or progress. =)

I’m guessing this is OP’s first MMO? Your entire account is stored on Anet’s servers, not your computer. The only thing you may need to do is reinstall the game. All your stuff will be waiting for you safe and sound.

OMG, you have no idea how happy this makes me to read this.
thanks so much for the fast reply.

and yes, this is my first MMO. usually i stay away from them since you have to pay every month. but after watching angry joes review, i got it and enjoyed it a lot. even when i dont play it every single day because of other games.

Technically the game doesn’t cloud sync.

It doesn’t need to because none of your account information is stored on your computer, it’s all on Anet’s servers. (They make backups regularly too, which is how they’re able to give account ‘roll-backs’ to people who got hacked.)

This means that not only do you not lose anything if your computer crashes, you could go to someone else’s house where GW2 is installed and play your account there.

I found that really weird when I first started playing GW1. Especially when I was able to play my Factions characters on my brothers PC even though he only had Prophecies installed.

Danikat.8537:

I found that really weird when I first started playing GW1. Especially when I was able to play my Factions characters on my brothers PC even though he only had Prophecies installed.

I remember how odd It was to get adjusted to mmo’s back then as well. I remember my first time playing an mmo, and after about 3-5 hours playing I started to worry because I couldn’t find the “save” button. XD

zerorogue.9410:

Danikat.8537:

I found that really weird when I first started playing GW1. Especially when I was able to play my Factions characters on my brothers PC even though he only had Prophecies installed.

I remember how odd It was to get adjusted to mmo’s back then as well. I remember my first time playing an mmo, and after about 3-5 hours playing I started to worry because I couldn’t find the “save” button. XD

Aaaah the days of the save button. I miss those days. Come across something too hard, no matter, just load up where you saved before and continue on your merry way, until you could beat it. But those days are mostly gone, and replaced by the check point/auto save feature, where it saves after certain missions, area, etc.

pdavis.8031:

zerorogue.9410:

Danikat.8537:

I found that really weird when I first started playing GW1. Especially when I was able to play my Factions characters on my brothers PC even though he only had Prophecies installed.

I remember how odd It was to get adjusted to mmo’s back then as well. I remember my first time playing an mmo, and after about 3-5 hours playing I started to worry because I couldn’t find the “save” button. XD

Aaaah the days of the save button. I miss those days. Come across something too hard, no matter, just load up where you saved before and continue on your merry way, until you could beat it. But those days are mostly gone, and replaced by the check point/auto save feature, where it saves after certain missions, area, etc.

I actually think auto save makes games easier because it will almost always save at a sensible point, whereas if you’re doing it yourself you can easily find that your only recent save file was after you made a mistake, like making the wrong choice or entering a dungeon at too low level or without enough weapons/ammo/when you haven’t slept for ages and are low on health and mana and your only options are to keep trying from that point or go way back to the last point you created another save file.

But save files and a pause button are the top two things I miss from single-player games when playing MMOs.

thanks danikat. really good to hear that.
i just have to wait for the game now. when i moved away with my wife, i didnt bother to take the game with me since the dvd wasnt required to play the game. my parents will be sending it to me soon. who would have thought my kitten pc will crash.

i am also happy having auto saves. came in handy so many times because of the same reasons you have stated.

METALROCKS.6097:

thanks danikat. really good to hear that.
i just have to wait for the game now. when i moved away with my wife, i didnt bother to take the game with me since the dvd wasnt required to play the game. my parents will be sending it to me soon. who would have thought my kitten pc will crash.

i am also happy having auto saves. came in handy so many times because of the same reasons you have stated.

You don’t need discs for this game to be installed, if that is what prevents you from playing. You can just download the setup file from here : https://account.guildwars2.com/account/download

Kam.1780:

METALROCKS.6097:

thanks danikat. really good to hear that.
i just have to wait for the game now. when i moved away with my wife, i didnt bother to take the game with me since the dvd wasnt required to play the game. my parents will be sending it to me soon. who would have thought my kitten pc will crash.

i am also happy having auto saves. came in handy so many times because of the same reasons you have stated.

You don’t need discs for this game to be installed, if that is what prevents you from playing. You can just download the setup file from here : https://account.guildwars2.com/account/download

lol. didnt know that. thanks for the link. but for me its still faster to install it from the disc than downloading. i know already that it will install many updates that arent small either.

If you know someone who has the game, and they have the latest update, you can go to their \Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2 folder and copy their Gw2.dat and Gw2.exe files.

Just install the game from disc, then copy those files over yours and you will be good to go.

sounds like a great idea, just the problem is i dont have any friends who play this game. so i just have to wait for a painful long download.