Originally posted by Entamis
Sounds promising. The only thing that troubles me is \"...the game constantly and intelligently streams new content to your computer in the background while you play...\"
I have a bad connection and lag in almost every game, and if it wants to load something in the background.. ouch.

EDIT: There won\'t be a monthly fee, but \"additional chapters\". Second ouch.

I played on 56k, and believe you me there is NO LAG in this game. The only time you will have to \"wait\" around doing nothing  is that when you first enter an arrea/mission for the frist time you will be streamed the data for it - after that you dont need to be streamed data because you already have it, only the \"normal\" streamed data assosiated with games like this will be streamed to you for that area. Updates are streamed in the background when your not useing the bandwidth - or when you frist log in.

Additional chapters are released at the rate of 6-9 months - you do not have to buy thies chapters and you can still play with people who do buy them - no you cant play in the added/new areas - but you can still be compeditive - because guildwars isnt about time spent - but the skill YOU have.

If you do the math, 6-9 months is about 10$ or less a month. Chapters should only cost about 40$-$60. And they will not just be *updates* but rather a full game addon. It would be just like buying a new game with full content.