Preorder Questions...

Okay I just have a few questions. Yesterday I went to Best Buy and Pre-ordered the game and I was wondering when you go there to get your copy of the full game what do you show them to get it? Is it the receipt or something in the box? Also do you have to download maps or areas or anything before the beta events?

Thanks,
-frodre

at best buy, you need to bring the receipt with you on release day and bring the retail box to the customer service counter and they will discount the purchase price.

from my experience, there will always be a big download when you first log into a beta event. most things are only downloaded when needed, like maps and textures and stuff..

Thanks for the answers. I guess I will just have to dedicate a few hours for updating hope it doesnt take too long (stuck on dial up o well)

Actually, I believe that most of the files you need will be on the cd. The reason that we have rather big patches every BWE is that we -don't- have that final cd, and so we have to download the content.

It should pretty much be updates/sudden bug fixes after release..

Agreed; if you look in your Guild Wars folder, you should notice a DAT file which has a size somewhere in the range of 800,000 KB; this would be the data that the game is using each time that you want to play. Once the retail version is released, all of those files will be handed to you off of the retail CD, and like Aria said, the only content which should be downloaded to your computer are bug fixes and other such small downloads. Large downloads like you have at the beginning of the Beta Events will no longer happen.

Yes, the game is made for as many people as possible. They wanted a very large audiance allowing almost everyone to play if they chose. They made it 56 k modem friendly.

yes...combined with the quality of my comp, that brings my online playable games up to like 5... but yeah thanks again

Hehehe. Your computer that bad eh.