Guild Wars 2

So… midnight release. Yah. Great. But I have no interest in staying up and playing it at midnight. I need mah sleep, and would rather just wake up and experience the game well-rested and ready to go.

However, what I would like to do is leave my computer running and wake up to a fully patched game, so I at least can just jump right in and not have to wait around for that to finish.

However, in the past when I’ve left the launcher open on patch days hoping it would be finished, it never is. I always have to close and restart the launcher to get the download to “kick in”. Like it only checks for patches on first starting.

Is there something I’m missing that would let me have the launcher open and have it continuously check for new patches so that when I wake up I’m ready to go? Or am I going to have to go to sleep, wake up at launch, start the game to get the download going, then go back to sleep (or just wait until morning and deal with the wait)?

As far as I know it is not possible.
If you have windows you could use the task scheduler to have it start the launcher automatically after midnight.
http://www.howtogeek.com/123393/how-to-automatically-run-programs-and-set-reminders-with-the-windows-task-scheduler/

That workaround seems like it’ll do the trick nicely. As long as I set my computer not to drop into sleep mode, anyway, since I imagine that would disable those sorts of things.

I’ll probably still have to download SOMETHING when I get up (since I’m sure there will be patches within hours of launch) but at least I should be able to get the initial one out of the way.

Thanks.