GW with dialup from big update builds

Well yesterday, we had some big update, I can bearly even play Guilwars now cuz of these dang updates, I played 2 months fine, then they do this 2 hours download and everytime I load anything it takes forever!, 20 minutes to download Thristy River mission, over and over and over again, so annyoing! Should be a 1 time thing, before it took 10 seconds to get to 100% anywhere in the game, but not anymore.

Anyone else having this problem lately?

Idea: Ask a friend (one with broadband) if you can install GW on their computer. Load up, update, travel to every area that you can think of to recieve more updates. Copy/split the .dat file to removable media. Uninstall GW and thank your friend for letting you steal their bandwidth. Take home, rejoin the .dat file, put into your GW directory. Rejoice.

You'd have to do it every time a big update like this occurs, though...

Aside from the downloads, how is GW with dialup? I know someone who's looking for a online game but has dailup.

I personally use BroadBand but my friends with 56k says they get kicked out of UW or Fow Groups all the time after an update. Sometimes they pay 1k by themselves just to get in and load the whole thing after an update so when they get in a group people won't leave after waiting for like 15 minutes.

I hear it takes a REALLY long time for even outposts. Dunno, it is a pretty graphics heavy game.

I play on dial-up; other than that massive update the other day (took me the better part of all morning just to get to the log-in screen), I've never had any real issues. Transitions take a bit longer sometimes but not generally unbearable and I've never had a party complain about waiting for me. My only complaint is really long missions, like Surmia (which I routinely skip now) where it seems to never fail that I'll be 80% of the way through and get disconnected by my ISP. Overall, GW is quite dial-up friendly.

just buy broadband

Because that's an easy thing and absolutely everyone has both the financial stability and location that they can 'just buy broadband'.

Think before making dumb comments.

Think more before suffixing them with a dumb emoticon.

I've been playing TFC, CS, Guild Wars, AoE, used TS and Vent on dial-up for a couple of years and it's not really that bad. (Except for vent which lags a lot, 4000 ping.) Koneko's .dat file idea is the best way to go if you don't want to leave Guild Wars open when you're not doing anything else. I think I'm gonna do that.

Even if someone could afford the broadband, it may still not be available in his area.

There's even a large, heavily populated neighborhood 3 miles from downtown Ft. Lauderdale that is just getting their cable laid underground. They will be getting access to broadband within a few weeks. I am only 3-4 miles from them, but have had broadband in my area for years.

If you pay for dialup, you should expect this kind of thing. BB is only about 10-20 bux a month more, and it's worth it all the way around if it's available to you. I really don't understand all the complaints I've heard along this line. For the last ten years, game companies have been saying they're dialup friendly, and they're not. The thing is, you should expect the slow d'loads and gameplay hiccups because you chose dialup or you chose to buy the game that requires (yes, REQUIRES) a faster connection.
Not ragging on d'uppers, but...... well, I've already stated my case. Good Luck.

To be honest, this is obvious. When you heard this game downloaded only what you needed only when you needed it, I hope you weren't thinking that dial-up would be very efficient. Maybe they will let you download larger patches from the website someday, but for now you'll have to deal with this feature like all the other dial-up users.

I'm not sure if this includes new files specific to areas you've already visited (if it doesn't, then it should keep track and do that in my opinion) or just more globally useable files. But in either case, you should probably let it download all it can before trying to join a FoW group or something.