Guild Wars 2

So i’ve looked it up because most of my games still have controller support and i’ve gotten used to it that way. Is there any chance that actual in game controller support will be a thing? I’ve seen a few posts here and there about people using it, but it appears to be through a third party program that i don’t really want to mess with, i’d like it a whole lot more if i could just plug the controller in and play the game.

I’m not 100% sure what i’m hoping to accomplish here, except just to probe a little and see if anyone other than me thinks it’s a good idea, or maybe how others who have used the software have experienced it. Maybe i’m not the only person who wants controller support and it’ll be made into a thing? Maybe it already is a thing and i’m just missing something obvious in the menus although i doubt that. Anyway… controller support pls?

There’s no chance that this game is getting official support for controllers anytime soon. The devs have briefly commented that it’s not something that they are considering. I’m not sure how hard it is to get it setup, but it would add to the headache of testing — one more set of things to check, one more set of interactions, especially since the game wasn’t designed from the start with this in mind.

However, there seems to be a lot of unofficial support — there have been various posts on reddit and elsewhere of people outlining how they got their controller to work with the game. The main caveat I’d offer is: be sure to update whatever 3rd party software you use — when gw2 updates, it will sometimes break the ‘hooks’ that people use to make stuff like that work. Sometimes it will mean going a day or two without controller support until whatever gets adjusted.