Guild Wars 2

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Did you add, -Streaming Client or -StreamingClient (without the space). If you put in a space that’s probably why no mark has shown on the bar.

I could kiss you! I did indeed have a space. Got rid of it and now have a playable mark! I should be able to get into character creation in the next couple of hours!

Thanks, Danikat! Your response made me think of another question — I have my computer set to never sleep (I sleep it manually when I’m done for the day/night):

Will the download slow/stop if I put it to sleep before I go to bed tonight?

I seem to be bouncing between 160kb/s and 180kb/s. The launcher now says: Downloading: 789MB and only 5% done.

@Flesh — I added -Streaming Client to the target line of the launcher shortcut, but don’t see a mark on my download line showing when the game is playable. Advice?

@Soul — I hope so, too! It looks fantastic!

@Vayne — You had me at “wardrobe feature” — Thanks for the welcome

Oy. Alright. While I’m disturbed that I can’t jump right in, I’m soothed by the fact that I now understand why. Thank you, Lord Krall.

UPS just delivered Guild Wars 2, yay! After going through the install process with the disks, I’m currently showing that I’m downloading 163MB (it changes every time I look at it, but it’s always around there, but seems to be rising) and 165k+ files. Boo!

Before I take this to the Tech Support forum, I thought I’d ask here first, just in case this is totally normal. Is this normal?

The main reason I bought the physical copy of the game was to avoid a super long download process. This could take days….

(Also, I tried adding the streaming to my target line in the shortcut, but that hasn’t given me a mark on the download line showing when the game will be playable. A restart didn’t help.)