I signed up for the free trial and was surprised by how quickly the game downloaded. From my experience in other games, I expected that on opening the game I would spend some time letting it update files, so I was suprised again that it went right to a character creation screen after login.
But then, after creating the character.... an update screen appeared, and the bar began to fill extremely slowly. So now, after only an hour or so downloading the game, it's going to take hours and hours to update?
My big question, is this update process eating into the free trial time, since I've logged into a character before it starts? With only 10 hours of trial time, if I leave it running all night so, will I get up the next morning to find that the game is ready to go, but "Your trial time has ended, would you like to purchase Guild Wars now?" on my screen?
Free Trial and Insanely Long Updates
Kymeric
Darcy
You can use the -image command to download the .dat file without running the game. When finished it will log you back out. As you haven't logged into a character at that point it will not affect your playing time.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/-image#-image
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/-image#-image
Angel Killuminati
It will take a long time to download, because in essence GW is placing all the content from all the chapters onto your hard drive. Then if you like GW, you only need to buy the access keys and jump straight into the game with no downloading to be done at all.
As for when the game starts, it should start (I believe) when you are actually logged in playing on the game servers.
As for when the game starts, it should start (I believe) when you are actually logged in playing on the game servers.
Moonstalker
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It will take a long time to download, because in essence GW is placing all the content from all the chapters onto your hard drive. Then if you like GW, you only need to buy the access keys and jump straight into the game with no downloading to be done at all.
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The Scorpion Knight
This is one of the other reasons I'm thinking of uploading my Gw.dat file to a torrent.
MisterB
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This is one of the other reasons I'm thinking of uploading my Gw.dat file to a torrent.
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The Scorpion Knight
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That action would be illegal. You are free to make backups for your personal use, but you may not publicly publish ANet's content in that fashion.
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MisterB
It infringes ANet's & NCSoft's property rights and copyright to publish their content publicly. If ANet were to host a torrent as an alternative download procedure, that would be their choice to do so. But publishing a torrent yourself would be software piracy.
It doesn't matter if you make a profit; it is still ANet's property, so you may not publish it without first obtaining their consent.
It doesn't matter if you make a profit; it is still ANet's property, so you may not publish it without first obtaining their consent.
The Scorpion Knight
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Originally Posted by MisterB
It infringes ANet's & NCSoft's property rights and copyright to publish their content publicly. If ANet were to host a torrent as an alternative download procedure, that would be their choice to do so. But publishing a torrent yourself would be software piracy.
It doesn't matter if you make a profit; it is still ANet's property, so you may not publish it without first obtaining their consent. |
Schnellburg
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Originally Posted by MisterB
That action would be illegal. You are free to make backups for your personal use, but you may not publicly publish ANet's content in that fashion.
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Darcy
But ArenaNet does not fool around with illegal actions involving their game as gold sellers have discovered. You notice that in over five years, they have never authorized another download site.
The OP can do his download, then start another trial account if necessary to play the game. Just create a temp hotmail account.
Edit: And just make sure you never delete the gw.dat file. Updates to it are very quick, but no one likes to do the whole download again. That file is the whole of the game info that resides on your computer, so you can move it to any computer and play the game immediately.
The OP can do his download, then start another trial account if necessary to play the game. Just create a temp hotmail account.
Edit: And just make sure you never delete the gw.dat file. Updates to it are very quick, but no one likes to do the whole download again. That file is the whole of the game info that resides on your computer, so you can move it to any computer and play the game immediately.
hattara
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It's only illegal if you get caught. Just like downloading movies/music via torrents.
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Kymeric
Thanks, all. The -image command did the trick, and it was done updating when I got up this morning.
CakeTown
Whenever I download the client, downloading a small outpost takes ages..
Whenever I install GW's via CD, downloading a small outpost takes a matter of seconds.
Whenever I install GW's via CD, downloading a small outpost takes a matter of seconds.
Snograt
That's because the disks install a gw.dat that was current at the time of the disk's pressing - still plenty of downloading to do, but not as much as a client + full d/l from the site.
CakeTown
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That's because the disks install a gw.dat that was current at the time of the disk's pressing - still plenty of downloading to do, but not as much as a client + full d/l from the site.
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Quaker
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Ahh thanks, I was always wondering why the downloadable client took ages to download an outpost while the CD version was done in a couple of seconds.
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