Guild Wars 2

I do not plan on standing in line and coming home to install the expansion, if I can avoid it. I prefer to download it directly and I am sure many others would like to as well. My question is, would we be able to pre-download much of the content with only a few key files on release day? I mean, imagine all of us hitting the download servers at once to download the entire expansion. So if we can prepay and download most of the expansion, go-live time would likely go smoother from ANETs end. We can just crash the game servers when we all go in at once, lol.

i think they might be dumping some of the stuff in with other patches. Some revenant stuff was buried in a patch they had about a month ago (i know this because someone datamined some revenant stuff).

All games will need most of the stuff in them because they will need to interact with it later. Say you got the expansion and i didnt. I would still need to have data on your revenant/specialization class or my game would not function properly in pvp. Therefore, they have to add anything that could have an effect on a non-expansion player (everything except the Heart of Maguuma maps). It only makes since for them to drop stuff early for everyone (excluding the HoM maps that is)

They are adding small bits in each patch, that’s how people can datamine some info from HoT
But they probably will just let you download the beta and use it as the live like they did at launch

Venatorn.7619:

They are adding small bits in each patch, that’s how people can datamine some info from HoT
But they probably will just let you download the beta and use it as the live like they did at launch

Thats re assuring, I have crap internet, and I was also wondering, if people bought it digitally, would let those people download early. but i like what you said too.

I would like to have it downloaded to be played the hour of launch. I think its a good idea.