Guild Wars 2

TL;DR : 3rd party program bad but idea good. Add good ideas out of the box. Add support to modders so there would not be need for surveillance on 3rd party programs that are benign.

So i read an article about this 3rd party program called Combat Mode, which was just a simple script by the looks of it that locks your cursor to center screen and mouse movement rotates camera without the need of holding right-click. I was amazed on how ANet handled it. Just bam and topic closed, side was taken but issue was not handled. Giving OK or even making a department that manages OK 3rd party programs is of course not the solution and the policy on 3rd party programs is good enough in my opinion, however, the program aids people with certain ailments and disabilities, it fills the “gray area”. Why not concentrate on adding those features in, straight out of the box? I mean honestly, how hard is it to add a “Right-click toggles camera movement” option or adding the ability to disable auto-targeting. It is hardly ground-breaking either, unless you consider developing carpal tunnel syndrome at different rate an uneven playing ground. Most 3rd party programs out there that gain communities favor show features lacking on the GAME side. GW community is by far one of the most reasonable communities i have ever seen, so why not hear them out? Add support to all those people looking to eye-candify their UI (i personally grew tired of the smudge-everything look in just few days, also please add “Explorer map” option that would just make the undiscovered bits of the map one color, surely GW1 was a lesson enough) or adding minor tweaks as auto-loot(i was amazed on how you can make it so that you loot everything in AoE but you still have to press “F” for it). Also i am pretty sure that if all the man-hour put into dealing with these “gray area” 3rd party programs would be put into adding some sort of a modders backend with proper API documentation, ANet would save some funds. Last note on the UI, it is pwetty and everything but some people want a change of scenery once in a while. If you must then monetize the UI like Dota 2 did.

Thank you for your time.