Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if it would be possible for you to allow us to make a secondary, lower security password. What this would do, is it would be a password that could give a program read access to your character data, but not write access or allow a player to log into the game using it.

This would be great for dealing with 3rd party websites, since it would allow a player to log in with his user name and secondary password, and then feed the site information about his characters, like inventory, gearing, skills, etc., but without actually passing the vital log-in password to what may be an untrustworthy source. If someone else did get ahold of your secondary password, the very worst they should be able to do with it would be to keep tabs on your character’s stats until you got around to changing the password. You wouldn’t even be able to change your secondary password using only the secondary password.

So basically, you have a random player, name: Bob, primary password: 1337p455w3rd, secondary password: kittens. He could enter in “Bob/kittens” all over the Internet, he could put it in his signature line if he felt like it, and his account would still be perfectly secure. So long as he only ever entered the “1337p455w3rd” at official and trustworthy sites like this one and the launcher, nobody could hijack his account itself (at least not any more easily than usual).

Or . . . Bob could just ALT+TAB back and forth or use two monitors. This way Bob doesn’t have to remember two passwords or accidentally put in the higher security one after a late night of drunken Champ Grinding. I just don’t see the greater good in this, to be honest.

Or we can wait until that feature is part of the API and you could just look people up with their account ID: Ohoni.6057

One of the great things about GW2 is that nobody can look me up or inspect me or see my build unless I post it somewhere. Another one is that there’s no way to track hard numbers on DPS and Threat. That means you can’t flame me if you don’t like the way that I have my character set up – not that I’d listen, it just normally makes me fill up an ignore list really fast. It is a better environment because I can’t see you and you can’t see me, if it comes down to inspecting people and telling them how to play or they can’t go on a run of some sort then I’ll be leaving this game behind.

Or . . . Bob could just ALT+TAB back and forth or use two monitors. This way Bob doesn’t have to remember two passwords or accidentally put in the higher security one after a late night of drunken Champ Grinding. I just don’t see the greater good in this, to be honest.

I think you’re missing the point of having the secondary password. It doesn’t really have anything to do with alt-tabbing or dual monitors.

One of the great things about GW2 is that nobody can look me up or inspect me or see my build unless I post it somewhere. Another one is that there’s no way to track hard numbers on DPS and Threat. That means you can’t flame me if you don’t like the way that I have my character set up – not that I’d listen, it just normally makes me fill up an ignore list really fast. It is a better environment because I can’t see you and you can’t see me, if it comes down to inspecting people and telling them how to play or they can’t go on a run of some sort then I’ll be leaving this game behind.

That’s not the point of this either. This suggestion would not allow other players to look at your stuff unless you gave them your secondary password, which you typically wouldn’t, and could change if you thought people had it that you didn’t want to. The main reason for this option would be for use with sites like character builders, inventory managers, market traders, etc.

You wouldn’t have to remember which crafting recipes you knew, or your exact gear load-out, or that sort of thing, nor would you need to log into the game to check, you could just log into a site that presents this sort of thing in a clear manner, using your secondary password, and gain access to that information, but without having to leave your all-important primary password out in the open.

I suppose I’m at a loss why anyone would need an inventory manager or what a market trader is, and when I use a character builder I do it from scratch. If I’m building a skillset, odds are I don’t like what I have so I don’t need to know that, lol.

Well, it’s nice to start with what you already have, then you can add or remove elements to see what that would change.

I can see the benefits of this and rather agree with it.

Ohoni.6057:

Well, it’s nice to start with what you already have, then you can add or remove elements to see what that would change.

Difference of opinion, I suppose. I would rather have A-Net just build an API that I can use myself. A character builder app would do me more good than a secondary password for a third-party site.

Difference of opinion, I suppose. I would rather have A-Net just build an API that I can use myself. A character builder app would do me more good than a secondary password for a third-party site.

Yeah, maybe, but it might be more work on their part to develop actual builder type apps than it would to develop this sort of open use tool, and if so I’d rather they spend the time working on ingame stuff. I don’t know, I’ll leave it up to them to decide what the best use of their time is, I just thought this might be an interesting idea.