Guild Wars 2

Healix.5819:

The game downloads the difference between what you have and what is currently available. It doesn’t know the exact size of the files until they’re requested, so in order to implement this, they’d have to first query the headers for each file. It’s certainly possible and easy to do, but it’s not important enough to double the amount of queries required. The size of the raw files is known ahead of time however, so it is possible to guesstimate it, but it will be very inaccurate.

If you’d like to see a sample of this, you can try my alternative patcher, which is intended for people who can’t afford the bandwidth and allows downloading patches anywhere without needing the game.

As with my previous topic, there is always someone who has something to say, but that does not really have a real utility to solve the problem.

I paid the game, so “enough” is not a motivation to not implement a useful function required by a customer who has paid base game and expansion.

One very important thing I did not say in my previous topic, my experience comes from another online game that I can not point to in the matter of occult advertising.

The game in question is a direct opponent of Guild Wars 2, which is new (you do not try to guess), where the game’s basic file is divided into several parts and above all is displayed the exact amount of files to be downloaded and the download start manually pressing a button.

Your blah, blah, blah, me really do import a lot, especially because is really simple to implement in the client who is definitely already prepared to see the amount of data rather than the files to download.

Of course, you are not the game developers and your hypotheses are of no importance for solve the request.

Sorry for the hardness of the message, but lazy people get me on my nerves.

…and where is the EXE file for your GW2Patcher ??

Hi, I have need to save and load the look of a character that I had previously made, for same server and other server.

I hope that this function will soon as possible be placed in the client.

Thanks in advance.

Hi, i have need to know the amount of data to download exactly in primary interface client where the game download and then starts.

I have need to know “Downloading data”? Yes.

I have need to know “Downloading speed of data”? Yes.

I have need to know “File remaining”? What and why? No, of course, why i have need to know better only the amount of data to download.

I hope that this function will soon as possible be placed in the client. Thanks in advance.

Answer for Inculpatus cedo.9234 : No Language barrier, just do not read what I wrote, or i am with mobile 3G connection with limited data, for more details just re-read what I wrote.

Answer for Healix.5819: Command -sharearchive : Opens the Gw2.dat file in shared mode so that it can be accessed from other processes while the game is running. So theoretically you suppose that will have that kind of effect, but I do not trust, i prefer a specific command created by developers for disable officially the download and show only a notification about the update.

Answer for Braxton.3926 : Sorry for you and your prejudices, but in Italy, mobile connection are very expensive and only profit for mobile operators not for the customer need, infact not exist unlimited mobile data offers, and over the data limit that you consume (example 2GB) you go at 32kbps “speed” until next month. Also, I do not have credit cards and because of my precarious economic status i can not do subscriptions of any kind, i pay always without subcriptions, only for a single month at a time.

I have Windows 10 completely OFF-LINE, infact I am proficient for disable Windows Update and Windows Defender updates, i see all movement of my internet data transfer and i not have stupid programs that download file in background. For big data download i go always in to Internet Point.

Answer for Jon Olson : I not have bandwidth restrictions, i have mobile internet data restrictions, so the On Demand setting it is completely useless to me.

Answer for Silmar Alech.4305 : I understand how working the gw2.dat file before you , because I’m not a stupid child.

I inform you that, sooner or later, the gw2.dat file will become of 30GB whitout that you can prevent it why it happens also in background while playing entering in maps as you say, so your reasoning is mistake why it is not update of files for last event, but only download of files about last expansion of the game and i see it with my eyes.

Which is why, I preferred to download the entire game in one shot, but i not have the control about future updates, why the Gw2-64.exe file not have a system for lock updates and show only a notification.

So, I see that you can not create a “service pack”, because you want to play right away without waiting for the game to be fully downloaded.

Ok, at this point I ask at least that in Gw2-64.exe file and 32 bit version, there must be a way to block automatic updates completely even when you are inside the game, showing only a notify and the amount of data to download (example 100MB, 300MB, ect.).

Not so I know the English language, even with the Google translator I had several difficulties.

However, synthesizing, I understand that you pay $70 a month for an “unlimited data” and an iPhone included in the offer, and there is another promotion with 10GB data limit, then you are down to 3G speed.

Before I answer, it is correct ?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, one can purchase a 64GB flash drive on eBay for 8 dollars. That doesn’t seem like very much to pay for convenience.

Good luck.

From my bad personal experience, eBay is the worst place for buy any product, so the minimum price for a 64GB flash drive reliably buying online is about 15 dollars, excluding shipping costs.

Anyway, I live in Italy, where the economic content is much lower than the United States, why even 8 dollars have a high value in my country, why you not earn it so easily and you have to work hard for 1 hour and 30 minutes to earn 8 dollars, if you have a lucky work.

Furthermore, leaving aside for a moment the division of the file “Gw2.dat”,
at least my solution about “service pack” is very easy and cheap for the developers, why enough divide and extract the source code by the file Gw2-64.exe (and for 32bit, of course) for create an specific exe updater that have the only objective of the update the client game and nothing else, naturally that contain only update files AND NOT A DOWNLOAD OF 30GB OF DATA.

I had made this request through ticket, because I know in the forum there is always someone who tries to find solutions that I have already tried and use, but is not comfortable for me.

The final decision is up to the developers of the game, no to negative and defeatist people that not belong to the development staff and say always “no”, or "isn’t going to happen ", etc.

The Gw2.dat file is a compressed archive that is manipulated dynamically and updated dynamically.

The Gw2.dat file, contains at least about 80% of files that are not updated by the first initial build of the game client.

The solution of the division into parts of the Gw2.dat file, allows to developers to update only a part of the file Gw2.dat, for example Gw2-part1.dat or Gw2-part4.dat, for apply events as Super Adventure Box.

The solution of having the “service packs”, allows to you to use a USB flash drive to smaller than 64GB, because not all gamers are rich and and can afford to waste money unnecessarily.

Furthermore, the solution of having the “service packs”, allows to you to download only the update file directly from official web site of Guild Wars 2, WITHOUT INSTALL THE GAME CLIENT IN THE INTERNET POINT, because not all the Internet Point allow you to install programs on their terminals.

We do not ever talk to someone who does not know what he says, for example me.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

It’s not super-likely this is going to happen, but there is some good news: if you copy the gw2.dat file yourself that will just work™. Might be easier to just grab a cheap 64GB flash drive that you can fit the whole file on in one shot.

(Technically, you can even keep a full copy of the entire game on there, since gw2.exe is “portable” and all, making it even easier to get the updates in place.)

I do not like it when someone does NOT READ what I write.

I repeat, “and upgrade the game in a internet point that have unlimited data ADSL internet connection.”

Easy, just read.

Hi Staff and Developers of Guild Wars 2,

they are many years that i try MMORPG and Guild Wars 2 is the first that involving all players in all the events of the game.

You got volunteered help and at the same time i volunteered offer help to others, this particular I have never found in other online games, where players, on the contrary are very opportunistic and cold with the other players, finding myself playing completely alone..

Going at the point of question, i not have ADSL at my home, so i play Guild Wars 2 with 3G limit data mobile connection and upgrade the game in a internet point that have unlimited data ADSL internet connection.

My request, I ask to you to divide the file “Gw2.dat” in parts of 6GB and create also the “service packs” standalone for future update of the game client in off-line mode, if I made a specific request, it is because of the current way of installing and updating ( command : -image) of the game client that is not comfortable for me.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.