Downloading Heavensward

[Relaxified]

Regarding the maintenance this Thursday-Friday, How soon will we be able to download the expansion?

[Brundlefly]

I don't think anyone really has that information. I'm hoping early in the maintenance, but there is a lot involved as far as QA is concerned before they actually pull the switch and make the download accessible.

[Shori]

From what I've read ( sorry couldnt find it in my history ) its not until maintenance is complete that the launcher will auto-update to the new client and then allow us to download the Heavensward patch. I could have mis-interpretted this though.

[Atoli]

So Heavensward is like a patch?
Because I started wondering how we are gonna download it. If it's in the launcher, everyone can play it though, not just those who bought it, isn't that right? ._.
*confused*

[Nikkita]

From what I've read ( sorry couldnt find it in my history ) its not until maintenance is complete that the launcher will auto-update to the new client and then allow us to download the Heavensward patch. I could have mis-interpretted this though.

That seems unlikely since the maintenance is scheduled to end the same hour the Early Access is suppose to start. It will be sometime after start before end lol most of the large patches have been like this as well though

[TitaniaZero]

So Heavensward is like a patch?
Because I started wondering how we are gonna download it. If it's in the launcher, everyone can play it though, not just those who bought it, isn't that right? ._.
*confused*

The entirety of Heavensward can be downloaded. Everyone could in theory do so. But I suspect the system that tells their launcher if we have access or not will limit those without Heavensward to not downloading it.

WoW lets everyone download their stuff. But something is in place to stop you if you did not buy the expac.

[Atoli]

oh okay, thanks!
So I don't need to find a certain webpage for the download but just let the launcher do it's thing? Great!

[Averax]

when i bought it on PSN, it said it would be available the 18th, i assume that it only says that that for downloading purposes. So probably during maintenance. Best time to do it anyway.

[Shori]

everyone needs to download the HW patch regardless if they bought it so that they can still see other players who are playing Au Ra or have the new jobs

[Bamadeus]

So Heavensward is like a patch?
Because I started wondering how we are gonna download it. If it's in the launcher, everyone can play it though, not just those who bought it, isn't that right? ._.
*confused*

everybody downloads the entire patch, but only those who buy hw will be able to access the new story, areas, job quests etc