Guild Wars 2

[01101010]

So many funny things happened on this page.

And then you showed up like a Dementor. 

And what is up with Charr being so popular in the press releases other than being one of those races you can play?

[Severian]

And what is up with Charr being so popular in the press releases other than being one of those races you can play?

Well, of the three unique races of GW2, it is the one suitable for the macho hardsell de rigueur for the US audience, like Bas Rutten as a Tera "MMO-FO".

(but I think it's just the one they finished first)

[Fabricated]

Nebu, wait a week.  Then you get a massive information dump from all the beta impressions and can decide then.

I liked Vanguard, WAR, DAoC, and ATitD.  Do you think anything I read here will dissuade me from buying this at release?

The hell is the matter with you?

[schild]

Just saying, I would totally preorder this is 1. I had money, and 2. Diablo 3 weren't coming out in the near future.

And I fucking hate weekend only events. The worst sort of testing.

[Nebu]

The hell is the matter with you?

I'm broken.  Like you didn't know this already.  Schild won't even talk to me about games anymore... he's convinced I don't know what fun is. 

[Furiously]

It's the story in your own head. I don't get people who like Starcraft.

[Numtini]

Just to check, the forum they sent a link to is still not up? (Just in case it's my account)

[Kageru]

I thought I'd pre-purchased but it's still sending me "you should pre-purchase now!" e-mails. Then again, could well be separate systems.

[Tmon]

looks like they are separate systems, I get them too.

[Lantyssa]

Just to check, the forum they sent a link to is still not up? (Just in case it's my account)

I have only gotten the initial e-mail with my pre-order, however that link is not active yet.

[Numtini]

Seems to me that they're cutting things a bit close with nothing available 3 days before a big beta event.

[Wolf@Heart]

Well actually you can already download the client and start patching. Nice background music for listening at least if nothing else for the time being.

[Threash]

Oh, that's helpful.  Thanks.

[murdoc]

Well actually you can already download the client and start patching. Nice background music for listening at least if nothing else for the time being.

You waited 4 years for that to be your first post!? 

[Threash]

It's a good one!

[kildorn]

If you're going to lurk until the right post, said post may as well be a link to the GW2 beta client. <3

[Nebu]

If you're going to lurk until the right post, said post may as well be a link to the GW2 beta client. <3

Or to a hard drive eating virus! 

[Redgiant]

Anyone know if it installs in-place, or does it at some stage let you give it a path? I see the big d/l itself going adjacent to where gw2.exe unpacked.

I don't really want it put where my d/l is, wondering if I should restart it.


Also, it seems self-throttled to ~1/3 bandwidth for me, any way to open it up?

[kildorn]

I know oldschool GW seemed to just install where you put the EXE. Haven't tried this one yet. Appears to be about 12G from other forums.

[Wolf@Heart]

Anyone know if it installs in-place, or does it at some stage let you give it a path? I see the big d/l itself going adjacent to where gw2.exe unpacked.

I don't really want it put where my d/l is, wondering if I should restart it.


Also, it seems self-throttled to ~1/3 bandwidth for me, any way to open it up?

It installs in place and the client is around 13 GB. You can move the install folder around freely afterwards though. I just copied it to my laptop and it ran flawlessly from there as well. If you're running out of free space, just stop the download, move the folder and continue.

[Phred]

Anyone know if it installs in-place, or does it at some stage let you give it a path? I see the big d/l itself going adjacent to where gw2.exe unpacked.

I don't really want it put where my d/l is, wondering if I should restart it.


Also, it seems self-throttled to ~1/3 bandwidth for me, any way to open it up?

Sure. Just convince the thousands of other people downloading it to stop.

[Von Douchemore]

I thought I'd pre-purchased but it's still sending me "you should pre-purchase now!" e-mails. Then again, could well be separate systems.

Same here, I was pretty pissed by it too. Made me doublecheck that I bought the damn thing. Tried to send some hatemail but the support link didn't work  .


Thanks for the treat Wolfie.

[Segoris]

The actual emails are coming out now with the instructions on downloading. Of course there's an overload of people and I wish everyone luck getting through to their servers

[kildorn]

I get 200M downloaded, then failure. repeat.

[Nebu]

I'm at 9k MB (54%) dl'ed and climbing.

Not sure what's going wrong for you.

[Furiously]

I'm done.

[Shatter]

Letting it run over night, my 3000 ping in PvP isnt working out too good

[Kageru]

Looks like the website is broken so I'm not even getting to that part. And they sent me a helpful GW1 7th anniversary which links to a dead page.

Their web infrastructure does not really seem up to the challenge so it will be interesting to see how their servers cope.

[Nightblade]

I hate both gamestop and best buy equally, but want the collectors edition. what do

[kildorn]

I'm at 9k MB (54%) dl'ed and climbing.

Not sure what's going wrong for you.

No idea. It screams along at 2-4MB/sec, then just up and dies. Restarting it causes it to churn along for another minute, then up and die.

Oddly, my net connection is perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Played pretty latency and PL sensitive games all night.

[Furiously]

I hate both gamestop and best buy equally, but want the collectors edition. what do

I ordered online from gamestop as there is a 2 day grace period so I'm sure they have a possible chance of getting it to me with overnight.

[satael]

I'm at 9k MB (54%) dl'ed and climbing.

Not sure what's going wrong for you.

No idea. It screams along at 2-4MB/sec, then just up and dies. Restarting it causes it to churn along for another minute, then up and die.

Oddly, my net connection is perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Played pretty latency and PL sensitive games all night.

Installing the game client into the Program Files directory on Windows Vista or Windows 7 can lead to issues with the patching process. (according to the FAQ)

[kildorn]

I'm at 9k MB (54%) dl'ed and climbing.

Not sure what's going wrong for you.

No idea. It screams along at 2-4MB/sec, then just up and dies. Restarting it causes it to churn along for another minute, then up and die.

Oddly, my net connection is perfectly fine as far as I can tell. Played pretty latency and PL sensitive games all night.

Installing the game client into the Program Files directory on Windows Vista or Windows 7 can lead to issues with the patching process. (according to the FAQ)

Nah, was installing to A_Random_Folder on my ssd. What I'm wondering is if my ISP was getting pissy about me streaming down 25 gigs over the course of two days (diablo 3 twice, and this)

[schild]

When does GW2 actually come out?

[Kageru]

When it's done but the retail is giving August as a date, which sounds possible.