Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I’m starting to download guild wars 2 at around 150kb/s (yeah the fastest possible internet in Canberra,Australia). I was just wondering how big the game is as of today?

I just want to make sure i don’t go over my internet cap

thanks

the game dir is about ~15 Gb.

It is about 16.5gb now at min. It will hit 20GB+ in future contents. If you are worry about your storage space on SSD, you can also junction link it.

Google “Junction Link” to learn more about it.

150kb/sec yikes, long download.

DJRiful.3749:

It is about 16.5gb now at min. It will hit 20GB+ in future contents. If you are worry about your storage space on SSD, you can also junction link it.

Google “Junction Link” to learn more about it.

150kb/sec yikes, long download.

does this include the lost shores update?

With lost shores my gw is 14.8 GB.

o.0 15GB is gonna take you like 30hrs to download at 150kb/s

kirito.4138:

o.0 15GB is gonna take you like 30hrs to download at 150kb/s

don’t worry i’m not going to play the game for 4 weeks. until school is over

kirito.4138
o.0 15GB is gonna take you like 30hrs to download at 150kb/s

what about 200kb/s???

i think it will be less thanks 30 hours. around 10-15

you can always do the math yourself.

15GB * 1024 * 1024 / (bandwidth in kb/s) / 60 / 60 = hours to download.

came up around 26 hours this is going to take forever

just an update for all i have now completed 5 gigs of the download for gw2, i would like to start playing at the end of school which is the 14th of december

another update to say that i’m now up to 10 gigs. if a week and a bit. i’m going to slow down now because i don’t need the game ready to play until december 14th

lol, do you really need to update us with your download progress like a twitter feed?

How big is GW2 right now? I am on 5% and 1gb downloaded. If my math is correct that is 20gb 100%

balkan.4206:

How big is GW2 right now? I am on 5% and 1gb downloaded. If my math is correct that is 20gb 100%

Fun fact, the percentage goes off of files downloaded, not how much you have downloaded. The client still sits at a steady 15ish GB for me. It may be that you are downloading larger files first which is why your percentage is lower than expected for the amount you have downloaded thus far.

People with slow internet connections, I recommend backing up the gw2.dat file in case it gets corrupted.

Another fun fact, GW1’s downloading system did not replace anything inside the gw.dat file whereas the download system for GW2 does replace parts of the GW2.dat file.

For instance in GW1, you download the client before Christmas and its 3.5GB. You download the Christmas patch and it increases the gw.dat’s file size to 4.0GB. You decide to reinstall/redownload the entire game after the Christmas event, you will download 3.5GB again.

GW2’s system doesn’t seem to follow this pattern, so for those who used to clean install GW after so many months because of extra space not needed from past events, there is no need to worry about this anymore.

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Fun fact, the percentage goes off of files downloaded, not how much you have downloaded. The client still sits at a steady 15ish GB for me. It may be that you are downloading larger files first which is why your percentage is lower than expected for the amount you have downloaded thus far.

That helped a lot. Thanks..

Hehe, i love having a good internet

30mb/s

- 5-15mins to download

Uncompressed game files are ~26GB at the moment.

Oh come on….
15 GB is just like downloading 10 full HD porn movies…
30 hours is not much, i’ve been downloading more than 90 hours just to download 1 porn movie.
Luckily i’m not in my home country now where the internet really sucks…

Charlie.8726:

Oh come on….
15 GB is just like downloading 10 full HD porn movies…
30 hours is not much, i’ve been downloading more than 90 hours just to download 1 porn movie.

NOBODY needed to know your dirty internet habits.

Well. I have 2mbp/s wich is 200klb/s. It took my like 6 hours to download 30% of the game 7,3GB. Then i close it for the night and when i open it, it start all over. Luckily i saw the the downloaded files were decreased from 250k to 170k. Now i downloaded 370MB and its 2%! Mind blown. All that stuff happened today and yesterday! xD. I hope that helps you.

Coclusion?! It doesnt matter how big it is. It matters the files you download.

mine is reading 17.1 GB.

hehe, I started to download this game today, bought the CD and hoped that I wont have to download all 15+GBs with my frekin 0.12Mbps dial-up speed, comes out that I still had to download all game from 0, all in all i bought box just for code inside it.

now i come back to first question, how big is this game now? and could someone do the math for me pls, how long would it take to download this game with 0.12 Mbps?

Assuming uncompressed, 300+ hours.

See you in two weeks. Next major patch should take you only 3-4 hours.

May I highly suggest you back up the game once it’s patched up, you don’t want do have to download it again. Heck it’ll take me 14 hours at 3Mbs so I wouldn’t want to do it again.

well, I started to download it first time, it downloaded 16% (about 3-4 GBs)in about 7-8 hours, then i left it over night and it downloaded 18% (about 4GBs) in about 9 hours. So I think it will take me about 30 more hours, not more.

That’s more like 0.75Mbps. Maybe you have 768Kbps/128Kbps.

right now I have stable 115 KB/sec speed, +/- 5 KB/sec

Is that Kilo/KibiBytes or bits/sec (cap B is bytes, lower b means bits)? The patcher/installer is in Kilo/KibiBytes/sec. I have a 3Mb Internet service so I get a tad over 300KB/s download rate.

Assuming 115 Kilo/KibiBytes then a full uncompressed download would take around 42 hours then. Patch being compressed could speed that along. In that case the usual two week patch will only take only 1/2 hour or so.