Guild Wars 2

I had a conversation last night that I wished I’d had record of, and I went looking today to see if there was some way to turn on a chat logging feature that I’d missed. I was surprised to find a long list of posts in this forum from players asking for this feature to be added. I even found a post in the GW1 Wiki. I do not see any response from developers on these, so I was wondering if there is a policy reason why it will not be done, some technical reason why it cannot be done, or if it’s something being considered and no one has communicated this yet.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Chat-Log-or-Copy-Paste-Mechanics
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Personal-chat-logs
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Chat-History-Guild-Roster-TC-additions
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Chat-Log-Dump
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Chat-and-combat-logs/first#post268815
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Ability-to-copy-chat
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Export-Save-Combat-Log
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:User/Lone_Guardian_802/Save_chat_log_to_text_file_feature.

I found one post from a player asking if it is safe to report a player without being able to attach a chat log. This one has a response from Gaile letting us know that the chat logs are saved by Anet. I also found a post where a player asked how to request a log and was told in an official response “don’t build your hopes up about it”.

Reviewing the long list of player posts proposing the feature, it seems that there are many good reasons to add the ability to save a chat log to this game. We know that logs exist, so the question is why the logs cannot be saved by the players, as well, as the participants in the events creating them.