whats going on?

I just bought guild wars and as soon as it was installed I made an account and made a char.I started the game and the loading took forever hours and hours to load.I have dial-up but I read it wasn't supose to take forever to load.Am I doing something wrong.Can someone tell me whats up.

weird. maybe server's down, maybe need to reinstall game. dunno for sure

Provide something useful like your system specs and what OS you are running and perhaps any firewalls or antivirus apps you got running in the background. Router?

Have you emailed Arenanet yet? They usually respond within the next 24 hours.
http://support.guildwars.com/

First load for me took about 15 minutes :\.

Did you buy GW at a store and thus install from the game disc's? or did you just d/l the client from the net and install from that?

Because if you installed from the net client.. that would explain the long d/l time. This is because the net client doesn't come with *ANY* of the area's installed. This means that whenever you hit a new area the game will have to d/l *ALL* the files for that area.

Whereas an install from the game disc's installs the files for all the area's.. and when you hit a new area it will only have to d/l files if the files has been updated. And this means the d/l time when you 1st hit an area will be a *LOT* quicker than if you installed from the net client because all you'll be d/l'ing is the updated files... not every file.

Once you have d/l'ed all the files needed for an area it will be quick to get between area's because you will not have to d/l anything again... at least untill they update that area again. And it can be done on dial-up.. I'm on 56K modem and the game loads just fine for me... but I installed from game disc's.

Even if he bought the game from a store, on dial-up it may take a while as it will be pretty out-of-date, and it'll need to download the various patches it's received as well.

uhh, unless theres some new technology i dont know about, which there probably is, he said dial up and brain said router. as far as i knew there was no such thing as a router for dial up. but then again i tend to be a moron sometimes

I don't see why anyone with dial up would want a router anyways. ANd I've also never heard of anyone using one for dial up :P.

I second that.

If your Dial-Up ISP allows more than 1 simultaneous connection, meaning they give you multiple public IPs(alot of them do now), you can run a PPPoE connection through a router to bridge mutlitple sessions.