Guild Wars 2

This is just a suggestion but it seems to me it would be useful if we could have a chat outside the game for example so we can see who is online and talk to them without having to log in the game, like how blizzard does it with diablo etc very practical.

This was actually in development before Guild Wars 2 was released. For one reason or another, development was ceased.

I might’ve read somewhere that this might be possible with a future version of the API, I’m not sure though.

I would love to see parts of the game brought to mobile or even desktop. I do wonder why the mobile trading post that was talked about before the game released had development stop on it.

There was going to be in iPhone app to do a lot of things in the game from a phone and chat was one of them but I think they killed the idea because there could have been serious issues with outside chat spam getting into the game. I think a very good phone app would be to see who on your friends list or guild is in game and the ability for guild leaders to send push notification to a phone app for guild events would be fantastic

an NcSoft client would increase their profit like crazy.

I’m not sure if it was ever “in development” or just a feature that they wanted and dropped for a variety of reasons, including:

• ANet is a gaming company; they haven’t done very well with non-gaming apps (e.g. the TP/Gem shop uses a 3rd party web app that is incorporated into the game).
• External apps add a host (ahem) of security and bandwidth issues. None of them are all that difficult to address, except that each one distracts ANet from their core money maker, i.e. their games.
• In addition, each external app requires maintenance to keep it working as the rest of the game evolves. Again, nothing that’s necessarily difficult, just difficult enough to make it more costly to evolve the game in various directions.

tl;dr I would love to see an external chat app (or even chat API), except I would prefer that ANet not even try and instead keep focusing on the core game.