Guild Wars 2

So I got The game a couple days ago and decided to install it today. My internet is slow and the entire download would take several days, this is why I bought the physical copy of the game. I put the disks in and without installing anything from the disks it decides to do everything from the internet. Is there a way to stop this so i could play guild wars any time soon, and yes i know that this is an MMO that updates regularly and would have a download after the disks, I jsut want what is on the disk to go on the computer and save me 14Gigs aka 2 days of download time. thanks for the help.

Two year old MMO. DVDs are basically useless, too much has been added and changed.

disable network connection or unplug the network cable?

If you want to use the DVD, you have to do it manually. Make a folder in the root of one of your drives, for example, C:\GW2\. Copy all files on the DVD that include .js in their extension.

Once that’s done, open your start menu and search for cmd. Right click cmd.exe and run it as an administrator. In the command prompt window, enter the following command – use your own paths:

copy /b "C:\GW2\Gw2.js*" "C:\Gw2.dat"

Once those files are merged, you can move Gw2.dat to your install location (where Gw2.exe is) and delete the folder where the .js files were. If you don’t have a Gw2.exe yet, simply download Gw2Setup.exe through the website (account management) and rename it to Gw2.exe.