Guild Wars 2

Greetings all.

So I just bought the game this evening and am trying to install it—but it turns out my desktop PC’s DVD drive is busted. My laptop’s DVD drive is working though, so I copied the contents of both disks 1 and 2 to my desktop.

The files that are now on this folder are:
Gw2Setup.exe
Gw2.js0
Gw2.js1
Gw2.js2
Gw2.js3
Gw2.js4
autorun.inf

So I double-clicked this Gw2Setup.exe, and now it the active screen seems to be the Patcher screen with a status bar at the bottom saying:

Downloading: 114.40MB (123.45KB/sec) Files remaining: 255,282

Is this normal? Or is something wrong with my installation method that the files shown above were not seen by the installer or something?

Please advise, thanks! Looking forward to play the game!

You can download the setup/game through here

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8981/kw/game%20client

But it does seem the game is downloading as it should. Just give it some time.

Ok thanks, I’ll just give it some time. I just wanted to play right away, hehe! The weird thing is that those js files are like 10gigs worth of data, but when I look at the folder of the game, it’s only at 500MB… so I was wondering, where did the 10gig installation datafiles go?

They are still downloading, The launcher is kinda weird. I’m not sure on how to explain it correctly.
Someone else care to explain this?

Those are game updates. I believe the installer will skip installation of outdated files and go straight to downloading and installing the updates.

You just have to let it finish.