Apps? See the API section of the forums where the community has grabbed the reigns and done the work on their own!
I must have missed the iPad app that you could log into and move your character through the world with Waypoints, as they were demoing in 2010
Remote Desktop.
If you really wanted to, you could rig up a client/server macro to show a map on one screen that runs a macro to put a waypoint in chat and click/use it on the other. If ArenaNet implemented a /slash command to use a waypoint, it’d be perfect.
The project for the smartphone app was canceled and they decided to release game API instead for third party devolpment but not to much was done with it the API was very limited mainly to world event timers so nothing was ever developed as much as what was originally planned and some of it would have been a major security risk mainly the mail and chat from a smartphone. We get enough spam in game from gold sellers and in game email phishing scams without adding to it from an outside source.
Opinions are like ______ everyone has one I could
put the correct term in but not everyone has kittens
This project was delayed in favor of having the specific folks required to build it skill-set wise working on solidifying the core of the game. You’ll hear more about our ecosystem in the future, but we’re not actively working on this project, in favor of making sure the core game itself is as fun and rewarding as possible.
Edited to add: We’ll discuss what sort of projects we’re doing instead in more detail in the blog post later this week, and even in more detail as the Jan/Feb/March releases get closer.
Thanks for the post and keeping us in the loop, really nice to read details like this.
Pretty sure they’re current plan is to release the rest of the v2 API plus the bits that require authentication then players can build whatever apps they want. Built the way the users want it.
If ANet released the single app we would probably get the app equivalent of the mount threads. We really don’t need more of those.
