im wondering how many ppl with dial up r gonna complain about the new build...

i, myself, has dial up, and it took me about an hour and a half to dl the 12 mb build, then to get in the game, i have to load the map, which requires 1334 files(in augury)... so how do i fix this? cuz im not gona wait 2 days just to load a map... or is guildwars closed now till spring for the expansion pack?

you have to get the new material only once.

good luck

where at? cuz im not so sure anymore

All of them to some extent. I installed GW a few months ago at my parents house while visiting. It took half the night before I could actually begin to play. After that, the gameplay was surprisingly smooth.

Just log in. Each map you enter will have to download the first time you enter a new area.

Just start dling and go do something else, it won't take as long as it seems usually.

To summarize with a common saying:

"A watched pot never boils."

haha r u kidding? is that wat i have to do? that really SUCKS!! i can tell u each map is gonna be at least 50 megs... and plus i alrdy no it goes faster after u dl it map alrdy, but still, theres like 1000s map areas, nobody is gonna like wait a month to get every map down

Nah, maps aren't usually more than a meg or so.

nope, ur wrong, a couple updates ago, i had to wait an hour (about 10 megs)

When you first enter after a big patch/build. The initial stream will be huge, but after each updated area should not be very big at all.

Look on it as a chance to take care of those "chores" that you usually do on the weekend. I can guess it's just going to be GW, GW , GW over the next few days

I have dial up too and cringe at the number of files that need to be downloaded.

no i only play guildwars like 1s in a while now, cuz my comp broke, and im actually at my buddy's house

Dial-up ? Are you like 300 years old, come on time to upgrade. You cant do anything with dial-up.

Hey it's a 56k connection what do you expect?

First off not every map is 50MB thats just a silly exaggeration. Sorrows Furnace wasn't 50MB. In fact GW is one of the smallest 3D game clients you could download. Hell, the next time I activate my Lineage account I am facing a 150MB episode update. Now that is huge.

If you download Open Office you're looking at 97MB download. Many downloads are fricken huge. Just deal with it and realize your connection sucks and plan for it.

PS: I'm on dial-up. I don't get anywhere near 56k. I am usually transferring around 40K bps. Oh well. Maybe I can get some work done instead of playing.

Any Online game nowadays is not nice to dial-up.

Basically what everyone is saying, is that, you only have to download the files once . That way, your next visits to Tyria/Cantha are more smoother.

A map is as little as 1 meg to download. Not that much.

And if you have to wait long, play with your buddy for a while. That didn't come out right .

Once you pick up chapter 2 via store (not just buying the cd-key on-line) you will have cd that have most of the files you can't get now (SF, new login GUI and most of the chapter 2 files).

Not everyone lives in an area where broad band is an option.

and not everybody can afford broad band, i have college to go through, and i have to pay my bills, i cant pay for everything that i want to enjoy, and i use to live in prescott az, which has no broadband at all, cept cable, but that was like 50 bucks a month... 50 bucks... + like 200 to install... so yeh

k so i tried to dl it again, i waited for it to dl, (3 kb/sec) got to 10 mgs and it stayed at 442 files (same as when i started) 10 freaken megs and it stays the same

lol id imagine that updated on dial up
/twitch
/faint

Thats not fair, not everybody can afford broadband (or convince their parents that it's a good idea).