Guild Wars 2

i’d like to know how big the patch is gonna be, just to anticipate, you know, because not everyone have unlimited downloads, and if I go past a few gigabites, my internet is gonna shut down for the rest of the month.. so yeah, even if it’s just speculation, it would be greatly apreciated

We never know before the patch hits, and that is mostly due to the fact that it usually defer between different people.

It is usually under 1 gb though.

Dehuang.2053:

i’d like to know how big the patch is gonna be, just to anticipate, you know, because not everyone have unlimited downloads, and if I go past a few gigabites, my internet is gonna shut down for the rest of the month.. so yeah, even if it’s just speculation, it would be greatly apreciated

You should probably look at getting a different ISP. There are quite a few out there these days with unlimited downloads/bandwidth, some do come with a fair usage policy but I’ve never met anyone who has had the policy inforced.

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

Worst case scenario, I’ve seen those that pull down speed when exceeding the gb limit (still unlimited, it wouldnt shut down) but its been many, many years since that was the case for regular internet, mostly just for 3G/4G nowadays.

Dawdler.8521:

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

Worst case scenario, I’ve seen those that pull down speed when exceeding the gb limit (still unlimited, it wouldnt shut down) but its been many, many years since that was the case for regular internet, mostly just for 3G/4G nowadays.

exactly, i’m lost somewhere in the middle of QC, and here, a decent internet (well here “decent” means it doesn’t crash often) costs so much, and it’s still not really good, because there’s just not the infrastructure needed to be “good”

sooo I guess
new map(s) : 5-10GB
no new map : the usual 250-500mb ??

Dawdler.8521:

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

If you consume a few GIGABYTES in two hours of just browsing, something is very very wrong.

Dehuang.2053:

exactly, i’m lost somewhere in the middle of QC, and here, a decent internet (well here “decent” means it doesn’t crash often) costs so much, and it’s still not really good, because there’s just not the infrastructure needed to be “good”

sooo I guess
new map(s) : 5-10GB
no new map : the usual 250-500mb ??

New map won’t get close to 5-10 gb.

The whole client is about 18gb I believe, and that includes more than 25 maps.

I would say 1 gb at most for the update, most updates are at around few hundred mbs.

lordkrall.7241:

Dawdler.8521:

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

If you consume a few GIGABYTES in two hours of just browsing, something is very very wrong.

Netfix HD stream will eat that in an hour or two.

Torsailr.8456:

Netfix HD stream will eat that in an hour or two.

Indeed, but streaming isn’t really “just browsing”.

lordkrall.7241:

Torsailr.8456:

Netfix HD stream will eat that in an hour or two.

Indeed, but streaming isn’t really “just browsing”.

That depends is you stick to the whole program your watching. I find it hard sometime to watch a show in one.

lordkrall.7241:

Dehuang.2053:

exactly, i’m lost somewhere in the middle of QC, and here, a decent internet (well here “decent” means it doesn’t crash often) costs so much, and it’s still not really good, because there’s just not the infrastructure needed to be “good”

sooo I guess
new map(s) : 5-10GB
no new map : the usual 250-500mb ??

New map won’t get close to 5-10 gb.

The whole client is about 18gb I believe, and that includes more than 25 maps.

I would say 1 gb at most for the update, most updates are at around few hundred mbs.

it’s arround 22gb :P
but i get what you’re saying
hopefully it will be close to 1gb, thanks a lot :p

Also depends on whether the Anet servers will handle the bandwidth, as every tuesday update they do, it usually fubars up and many of us have to wait till after 12am EST to get the kitten thing to go above 0k/s

Kohlteth.3715:

Also depends on whether the Anet servers will handle the bandwidth, as every tuesday update they do, it usually fubars up and many of us have to wait till after 12am EST to get the kitten thing to go above 0k/s

That have a grand total of nothing to do with size though.

US netizens should savour their unlimited download ISPs while they can. Bandwidth caps are in widespread use around the world and may be coming there too very soon. (It may already be implemented in some forms. Like how Comcast actually has a secret bandwidth throttle that kicks in after about 50GB, if I recall correctly.)

Meanwhile ISP’s in New Zealand have recently started having unlimited plans, for which I am insanely grateful _

Bandwidth throttles? Thank god we don’t have that in germany.

I guess the patch will be 500ish mb.

I live in Europe. Lived in France, UK, Poland.

Each and everyone one of the countries have “unlimited downloads”. I’m actually surprised to see that any country in the world would have “limited downloads” only, lol.

Corpus Christi.2057:

I live in Europe. Lived in France, UK, Poland.

Each and everyone one of the countries have “unlimited downloads”. I’m actually surprised to see that any country in the world would have “limited downloads” only, lol.

It’s not that uncommon. ISP are for profit companies, they get more money from you by charging for smaller data plans and then charging you again when you go over.

Up until maybe two years ago you would have struggled to get over 100GB in NZ, and most ISP’s had plans of 20GB or 30GB as standard.

Dehuang.2053:

Dawdler.8521:

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

Worst case scenario, I’ve seen those that pull down speed when exceeding the gb limit (still unlimited, it wouldnt shut down) but its been many, many years since that was the case for regular internet, mostly just for 3G/4G nowadays.

exactly, i’m lost somewhere in the middle of QC, and here, a decent internet (well here “decent” means it doesn’t crash often) costs so much, and it’s still not really good, because there’s just not the infrastructure needed to be “good”

sooo I guess
new map(s) : 5-10GB
no new map : the usual 250-500mb ??

Hey, look at it on the bright side…if it crashes..at least it DOES exist…ish.. :P

I have limited data as well. My family gets to share 10gb in the house before overage fees start to kick in. We’re stuck in basically a dead zone out in Texas, between two cities. 5-10mins in either direction has good unlimited coverage, but we’re stuck in the middle and overlooked.

If I had to guess, I’m thinking the patch will probably be around 500mb-1gb. It really depends on what and how much they are putting in.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Corpus Christi.2057:

I live in Europe. Lived in France, UK, Poland.

Each and everyone one of the countries have “unlimited downloads”. I’m actually surprised to see that any country in the world would have “limited downloads” only, lol.

It’s not that uncommon. ISP are for profit companies, they get more money from you by charging for smaller data plans and then charging you again when you go over.

Up until maybe two years ago you would have struggled to get over 100GB in NZ, and most ISP’s had plans of 20GB or 30GB as standard.

Tbh, I’m really surprised now that you mentioned it. Was about to chooose Auckland to go on with my LLM studies, but decided to choose Scotland instead some time ago.

Some so-called “unlimited download” plans are not really unlimited either. Technically you do have unlimited downloads, but after you exceed a certain threshold each month, they throttle your bandwidth so any further data transfer slows to a crawl. (Far, far too slow for downloading movies or playing games.) We do have those here in Australia too, but I regard them as a sneaky marketing gimmick rather than a true unlimited download plan.

lordkrall.7241:

Dawdler.8521:

Past a… few… gigabytes?! FEW?!

That’s what I consume in like 2 hours of just browsing. What sort of backwards place do you live in, lol?

If you consume a few GIGABYTES in two hours of just browsing, something is very very wrong.

I do this all the time. Facebook, Tumblr and Reddit have a lot of images. Plus (though not “just browsing”) I watch at least a couple hours of Netflix and/or YouTube and the news (stream BBC News live) every day. My brother and dad are the same as well so we use a lot of data very quickly in day-today use.

Zaxares.5419:

Some so-called “unlimited download” plans are not really unlimited either. Technically you do have unlimited downloads, but after you exceed a certain threshold each month, they throttle your bandwidth so any further data transfer slows to a crawl. (Far, far too slow for downloading movies or playing games.) We do have those here in Australia too, but I regard them as a sneaky marketing gimmick rather than a true unlimited download plan.

In the UK almost all ISPs have unlimited downloads but in their fair use state that one can only use xxGB of data between 8am and 8pm and then slow down your connection. Virgin Media is by far the best ISP for non-business/education consumers in this country. On their highest tier they provide 120Mbps (all customers will get free upgrade to 152 by September this year at the latest) and provide truly unlimited data usage with one exception; they pinpoint data being sent and received by P2P programs and limit their speed between 8am and 8pm after around 20GB of download. Even then though you’ll still be able to get at least 1MB/s download speed on the P2P client.

Dehuang.2053:

lordkrall.7241:

Dehuang.2053:

exactly, i’m lost somewhere in the middle of QC, and here, a decent internet (well here “decent” means it doesn’t crash often) costs so much, and it’s still not really good, because there’s just not the infrastructure needed to be “good”

sooo I guess
new map(s) : 5-10GB
no new map : the usual 250-500mb ??

New map won’t get close to 5-10 gb.

The whole client is about 18gb I believe, and that includes more than 25 maps.

I would say 1 gb at most for the update, most updates are at around few hundred mbs.

it’s arround 22gb :P
but i get what you’re saying
hopefully it will be close to 1gb, thanks a lot :p

Mine is 18.1gb.
It really depends on what additional language packs you have downloaded.
(I only have English)

Personally, I am anticipating about 300-400mb for this patch based on the sizes of other patches that included fully altered zones (Kessex poisoning, LA destruction). However, if there is much more to this update than just a little lead-in to the new season, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go up to 500-600mb.

@StinVec, it doesn’t correspond to language packs, it’s just that people who have had the game for longer tend to have larger clients. Mine is 21GB and the only language pack I have installed is English…

FlamingFoxx.1305:

@StinVec, it doesn’t correspond to language packs, it’s just that people who have had the game for longer tend to have larger clients. Mine is 21GB and the only language pack I have installed is English…

I’m not sure where you heard this about players having the game longer equaling larger installation size. I’ve had the game installed since the first day of launch. It has never been uninstalled or reinstalled and mine is the most common size frequently reported by players as being the size of theirs as well. In addition, previous comparisons on the forums between installation sizes and patch download sizes have been attributed to additional language files needing to be downloaded.

You may want to check to make sure you do not have additional languages downloaded for your game as your patches will be much larger in size than most other players due to your downloading additional language packs, as well as your client size being the 21gb you state yours is.

Could also have much to do with the format of the drive fat versus ntfs, the block size and the size of the drive.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Dehuang.2053:

i’d like to know how big the patch is gonna be, just to anticipate, you know, because not everyone have unlimited downloads, and if I go past a few gigabites, my internet is gonna shut down for the rest of the month.. so yeah, even if it’s just speculation, it would be greatly apreciated

You should probably look at getting a different ISP. There are quite a few out there these days with unlimited downloads/bandwidth, some do come with a fair usage policy but I’ve never met anyone who has had the policy inforced.

Tell me a single ISP offering LTE via German Telecom without monthly quotas. (ADSL/VDSL is not an option here)

Right, there’s none. Not everyone has the ability to get unlimited 1337mbit/s like you seem to have.

StinVec.3621:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

@StinVec, it doesn’t correspond to language packs, it’s just that people who have had the game for longer tend to have larger clients. Mine is 21GB and the only language pack I have installed is English…

I’m not sure where you heard this about players having the game longer equaling larger installation size. I’ve had the game installed since the first day of launch. It has never been uninstalled or reinstalled and mine is the most common size frequently reported by players as being the size of theirs as well. In addition, previous comparisons on the forums between installation sizes and patch download sizes have been attributed to additional language files needing to be downloaded.

You may want to check to make sure you do not have additional languages downloaded for your game as your patches will be much larger in size than most other players due to your downloading additional language packs, as well as your client size being the 21gb you state yours is.

During the first year my game client was over 20GB and then I looked some other time and it was smaller for some reason. I think it may be to with better compression on replaced files or maybe the deletion of unneeded files after updates. My game is currently 18.2GB and just over 19GB on my external. I’ve never installed any other language packs.

We live full time in an RV so internet/interweb connectivity is hard to come by sometimes. What we use you could not as we are in the states and still have the unlimited data with Verizon BUT here are somethings that you may want to look into for data stuff:
http://www.exede.com/
http://www.autonetmobile.com/
http://millenicom.com/ and/or http://www.dslreports.com/forum/millenicom
http://www.groundcontrol.com/ – expensive but supposed to be the best
http://www.highspeedsat.com/
http://www.mobileinternetsatellite.com/Index.html?expandable=0
http://www.mobilsat.com/
http://www.datastormusers.com/rvsatinternet.cfm – MotoSat is now closed, but there is still information

Hope these help in your quest for some help in the data department.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Dehuang.2053:

i’d like to know how big the patch is gonna be, just to anticipate, you know, because not everyone have unlimited downloads, and if I go past a few gigabites, my internet is gonna shut down for the rest of the month.. so yeah, even if it’s just speculation, it would be greatly apreciated

You should probably look at getting a different ISP. There are quite a few out there these days with unlimited downloads/bandwidth, some do come with a fair usage policy but I’ve never met anyone who has had the policy inforced.

Sadly sometimes options are limited. Fair usage occurs a lot if you are forced into a satellite service. First time you encounter it you think something has gone wrong with your equipment until you start to dig into your router settings. Same boat as OP, it would be nice to see the download size posted somewhere to plan for the update.

StinVec.3621:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

@StinVec, it doesn’t correspond to language packs, it’s just that people who have had the game for longer tend to have larger clients. Mine is 21GB and the only language pack I have installed is English…

I’m not sure where you heard this about players having the game longer equaling larger installation size. I’ve had the game installed since the first day of launch. It has never been uninstalled or reinstalled and mine is the most common size frequently reported by players as being the size of theirs as well. In addition, previous comparisons on the forums between installation sizes and patch download sizes have been attributed to additional language files needing to be downloaded.

You may want to check to make sure you do not have additional languages downloaded for your game as your patches will be much larger in size than most other players due to your downloading additional language packs, as well as your client size being the 21gb you state yours is.

I’ve been playing since pre-launch, never installed any other language pack, and my .dat file is ~22Gb (pre-this patch). Not sure why some are smaller and some are larger, but I’m sure it has nothing to do with having the other languages enabled.

Patch size is about 350MB.

You are welcome

Zaxares.5419:

US netizens should savour their unlimited download ISPs while they can. Bandwidth caps are in widespread use around the world and may be coming there too very soon. (It may already be implemented in some forms. Like how Comcast actually has a secret bandwidth throttle that kicks in after about 50GB, if I recall correctly.)

Brazil is out of the list. We passed a law that, between other things, makes bandwidth cap illegal.

I really hope the rest of the world follow the brazilian example soon. No one deserves to keep counting every bit that comes through their connection. Specially now that the trend is to make everything in your house have a internet connection (videogames, tv, cell phones, cars, etc).