Guild Wars 2

When will we finally get a way to copy the text from the chat textbox?
this must be one of the few games that don’t allow it. and I really don’t know why. many times I want to post links to my friends or guilds about forum topics, or my drawings, or anything that I want, and I have to tinyurl it, and force them to write the url on their own.
Is there a reason why this is not allowed? it seems like a no brainer to me. :S

While there are many benign purposes such as you describe (and I’d love to be able to copy RP logs without having to carefully screenshot and fight with the terrible scroll function to get every line in as few shots as possible), I would wager ANet has no interest at all in making it easy to get links from game chat. Why? Gold sellers.

gold sellers can still use tinyurl though. I dooubt if someone wants to use them he/she’ll stop because of the minor annoyance of writing the url.
I wouldn’t think that a game where you need to buy it to play would be filled with gold sellers though, I’ve seen most of them in free to play games.
but I do get your point.