Guild Wars 2

When you buy Guild Wars 2 you are paying for the account. It is SO much easier and faster if you copy a friend’s data files onto a 32 or 64 Gb flash drive and then copy it onto your computer.
If you want to do it this way, just download the GW2 client (about 162kb), run it and set up your account. Then exit, copy the Gw2.dat and Gw2.exe files from your friend over the ones that were installed. This might save you hours (especially if your friend has high level characters and been to much of the GW2 map).
Normal GW2 play (from what I have experienced and heard others saying) uses about 20Mb of data per hour of play after you have it installed. You are more likely to be “video card limited” than bandwidth limited. Keep in mind every time you visit a map area you haven’t been to before, the data file is updated.
If you don’t have a friend who has GW2, you will have to do it the hard way. However – promote it to your friends, and BE the one they can come to for the files :-). Once you’ve played it, every other game will not even come close.