New User Question

Greetings!

I just purchased an online copy of the Guild Wars and proceeded to try to download the client. My question is simple, if not somewhat sheepishly asked. It took an incredibly long time just to connect to ArenaNet or whatever it is, and now a screen is saying that it's downloading -but there is no other indication that it is or isn't, like a % bar or something to indicate how far along you are. Should I be worried if it has been like this for over 20 minutes now?

Your help is appreciated!

There's no reason to worry: since you're running it for the first time the client's probably still downloading the basic game assets (common textures, 3d models, animations, sound effects, etc.) the game can't really work without. I don't know how much it needs to download exactly, but it could be several hundred megabytes. It'll then download the rest of the stuff as needed when entering new areas.

To avoid any long loading times in the future, you can force the client to download every game asset before starting the game by running it with the command line parameter -image, but that's likely to take several hours. Leave it on overnight or something unless you have a very fast Internet connection.

I'm pretty sure from memory that it should reasonably quickly display the number of files remaining and the percentage done.

I don't know, for some reason mine stopped displaying the number of files and a progress bar ages ago, well before EotN was released. It just happened straight after an update. However, it still downloads and the game works fine so it's not a big deal.