Guild Wars 2

it seems to me as if all patches for the game have to be downloaded “traditionally”. i never played GW1, but i heard about the streaming updates and how you just needed to restart your client to suddenly be on a new build.

so, are they just not in (yet?), does anyone have more insight on this?

so now, sitting here and downloading the halloween patch, i wonder if misunderstood what the term “streaming updates” actually means.
was it always “just” the concept of a server changing builds on the fly, and not the client downloading the patch in the background, prior to release? because from what i heard about GW1, i was under the impression your game would automatically download the new data while you could just keep playing.