Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

Guild Wars 2 has been out for almost 4 years now and the game still doesn’t have a proper companion app for android and ios.

I remember when playing other MMORPGs and other games they often did have them.

It was a place to check items, maps, quests (in case of GW2 thus can also be events and timers) and even your characters with gear or chat with friends.

Would you guys agree it would be a good add?

I wouldn’t use it. On top of my many problems with it would be that it’d take away from my forum sarcasm time.

~EW

What would be the point?

What good does it do to be able to look at your gear, items etc. when you can’t log in to the game itself? Even more so with events, which would most likely be over by the time you could log in.

There will be no ‘official’ ArenaNet app, as ArenaNet opened the API to others so they could create the very apps you seek. You can find a list of apps in either the API sub-forum, or the Wiki, I believe.

Good luck.

I remember in early development they had started developing exactly what you describe, but I guess they abandoned it.
and to answer @Danikat : they planned for the app to have a chatbox that would allow you to chat with your friends and guildies.
Other features could have included Event Timers, TP transactions, Shopping for gems (both currency exchange and real-world transactions)

I think they announced the abandonment fairly early after the game released, letting 3rd parties provide offline tools. Don’t remember exactly where I heard that. Maybe one of the recent AMAs on Reddit reiterated it.

I would love a companion app outside the game. Able to see ingame guild chat and next teq spawn while im stuck in traffic coming back from work.

https://gw2efficiency.com → add to home screen

Djahlat.9610:

I remember in early development they had started developing exactly what you describe, but I guess they abandoned it.
and to answer @Danikat : they planned for the app to have a chatbox that would allow you to chat with your friends and guildies.
Other features could have included Event Timers, TP transactions, Shopping for gems (both currency exchange and real-world transactions)

Ok that’s one thing I would like to have. There’s been more than 1 occasion when I missed a gem store sale or limited time item because I was away from home and couldn’t log in.

But since the gem store is already a separate browser based program built into the game, and we can log into our GW2 accounts on the website a web page would probably be easier and then it would be accessible to everyone who can get online, not just people with compatible smart phones and wireless internet.

(I realise the idea of not having a smart phone is a bit alien these days, but I didn’t have one until last year, and places without wireless internet are not that uncommon. I just spent a week in a forest in Scotland with no wireless outside of towns (and sometimes not even phone signal), but I did have access to a PC.)

Here are the official announcements of the ‘Extended Experience’:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101009123733/http://www.arena.net/blog/gaming-outside-the-game-rick-ellis-talks-the-guild-wars-2-extended-experience#more-3190

https://web.archive.org/web/20101009124650/http://www.arena.net/blog/rick-ellis-answers-your-extended-experience-questions#more-3231

Some Dev statements/interviews post-launch:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/What-happened-to-the-Extended-Experience-Android-iPad/first#post68695

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Are-the-phone-apps-still-being-built/first#post1339514

And the official ‘cancellation’:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Everyone-remember-the-smartphone-app/first#post1201592

I think they realised what many companies have learned about “companion” apps. They cost time and money to develop and maintain and they give little or no return on the investment.