Guild Wars 2

Hi Stefan

Looking forward to the upcoming changes! Especially OAuth2!

Oh no, two Stephanes? Let the comedic mistaken identity begin! At least you spell your names differently. :P And welcome to Stefan #2!

Stefan Larimore.6872:

I’ll be active on the forums, answering your questions, and reading feedback and suggestions. So please keep participating and let us know what you think.

Hi and welcome Stefan! My question to you: how do you think APIs help improving gameplay? I’m really confused why Anet supports people creating maps which show ongoing events etc. when ingame there is intentionally no way to show these events. I can’t see how this improves the GW2 experience. Can you help me here?

Welcome Stefan! Feel free to stop by the gw2spidy chat sometime and say hi!

Hello Stefan and goodbye Cliff, thanks for all your support!

Greetings Stefan!

Can’t wait to see OAuth2 get rolled out; thank you for your ongoing work on it! And also, best of luck, Cliff! Thank you for all that you’ve done to get the APIs off the ground, as well as both your immediate and in-game responses.

Also, player applications/sites can evolve much more quickly than anything that ANet can produce, they can cater to narrow groups of players, or present creative solutions to issues that ANet hadn’t even considered yet. Like any software firm wanting to release quality products, ANet software has to be discussed, scheduled, go through “formal change control,” and be thoroughly tested (and even then, we know, not everything comes out as intended). In contrast, player-developed tools can be planned on a napkin, get tested when live, and the player devs can work whenever suits them.

End result: we get all sorts of useful tools without having to compete with all of the other priorities at ANet. It greatly improves my in-game experience to have access to things like mos.millenium.com’s wvw maps, gw2stuff.com’s boss event timer, gw2state.com’s temple status, the wiki’s full set of details on events and items (recovered via the API), and various other sites.

well I don’t know about how you see it, but dragon timers feel just like skipping lv.1-19 in a jump’n run straight to the boss level 20. A lot of API-generated stuff feels like cheating to me. Seeing how many events there are… wasn’t it supposed to be a secret, while adding new events over time in a stealthy manner?

I guess you guys have good intentions, but I don’t feel like communication between teams works properly since goals seem to vary a bit.

Wow, that’s certainly a surprise, to see Cliff go. I’m thankful that you launched the API and got the attention back on the “extended experience”. What you started definitely showed that 3rd party tools are a great way to extend the game experience. So thank you for that! And I wish you all the best at your new job, and with your life!

That being said, welcome Stefan! I hope you will be able to live up to the expectations that people have with the announcements of what’s coming for the API. Good luck and I hope you have a good time with the API and us

Hi And Bye :-)

Nexun.6932:

Looking forward to the upcoming changes! Especially OAuth2!

As am I. It would really help a lot of applications to be able to verify their user as a GW2 player with account in good standing.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Stefan Larimore.6872:

I’ll be active on the forums, answering your questions, and reading feedback and suggestions. So please keep participating and let us know what you think.

Hi and welcome Stefan! My question to you: how do you think APIs help improving gameplay? I’m really confused why Anet supports people creating maps which show ongoing events etc. when ingame there is intentionally no way to show these events. I can’t see how this improves the GW2 experience. Can you help me here?

This was answered before. They tested displaying active events on the map and found that displaying all the events on the map at once showed too much information and make it look cluttered. Doing so also would make it hard for players to move through the zone.