Guild Wars 2

Last week I picked up playing Guild Wars 2 again, and it has been fantastic as it was before. The fact that I don’t have to pay monthly is awesome. There is just one thing that would complete my world and that is the aforementioned.

I have a full-time job and a full-time life and I’m quite busy almost all the time. I also have a family. Most of the time I play late at night when I have some free time, if I do. I also have an addiction to buying stuff from the AH or BLTC. The problem is I have to login to the game to get any information as to my hopeful purchase(s). I can’t imagine how much money is being lost simply because adults such as myself can’t easily access either system from their desk, their tablet from the couch, or even their cell phone.

Hopefully this will gain some traction from ANet, but my question is if/when this kind of service will be offered to the players? My wallet is ready.

That is interesting and I suggest that you post this in their API development forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api

ArenaNet is suppose to be releasing a Trading Post API and people were wondering if having the ability to buy/sell/cancel their orders should be allowed. Personally, I think they should be allowed because this would be a cool thing to be supported by mobile apps others think that cool features like this should be held back because of their fear of bots, which I disagree.

We shouldn’t let the fear of bots dictate the direction of the game. ArenaNet already has security measures in place to deal with any bot problems and I have not seen any bot in the game for a very very long time. This shows that they have been relatively successful. So as long as it would enable cool features that users want, we should have it.

This isn’t the thread I thought this topic would be discussing

I am not sure how they could allow you to sell from outside the game interface since that would entail inventory and bank access on some level. However I can’t see why Money isn’t an easily trackable item on your account and the potential to buy off the in-game market be done with an out of game app.

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This isn’t the thread I thought this topic would be discussing

I am not sure how they could allow you to sell from outside the game interface since that would entail inventory and bank access on some level. However I can’t see why Money isn’t an easily trackable item on your account and the potential to buy off the in-game market be done with an out of game app.

I don’t know either, but I’ll leave that to ArenaNet’s imagination if selling can be supported or not.

Buying and Canceling of orders can be done today but you need the game session key and obtaining this session key can be a little dubious. However, ArenaNet has plans to incorporate OAuth2 authentication for their APIs so when that is done, hopefully we would see them release the Trading Post API with at least buying/cancellation of orders being supported.

Hey DarkSpirit, I see you already started a thread about this topic here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/API-Suggestion-Trading-Post-API

It currently is possible to make an app that allows you to use the TP from anywhere, but it requires the game to be left running on a computer that will act as your server. Whether it’s “legal” is another question, since doing so violates several rules, much like gw2spidy, and it could also be considered a bot, since the only way to pickup items is by clicking the button. This method uses the in-game trading post as a proxy, allowing commands which are not accessible through the API to be used.

Another way, which doesn’t violate any rules by itself, is by relying on a program like remote desktop to view your screen from another device.

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Hey DarkSpirit, I see you already started a thread about this topic here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/API-Suggestion-Trading-Post-API

Yes it is. You can add on your suggestion to that thread if you wish to.

I agree with Healix. But I don’t think that ArenaNet would take action even against those who obtain the game session key by scanning the game client process memory, just to build a legit app. We have asked them several times but they didn’t want to give a definite answer. If they are really against it, they could have easily put a stop to it. Besides, obtaining the game session key is only a stopgap measure that would be deprecated when ArenaNet is ready with their OAuth2 implementation.

So Dark, in the 6 months that has passed since you started the thread (and the time this was discussed prior to that) have you seen any action by ANet to make any changes (either support or not) in this API…