Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering if it’s planned to add notifications of some kind for patches. Most haven’t been an issue for me but the one today seems big enough I will put it in the background and do other things until it finishes.

If it’s not planned yet, I’d like to vote for it as a feature request for the “Beta”.

Thanks

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Notifications as in on your computer as per the title of the thread. The feature in the OS.

Specifically when the patching finishes in the launcher.

They don’t have them for Windows so I don’t imagine they would for OSX.

Also I get the feeling that notification centre and growl wouldn’t play nice with Cider.

Would be cool to get notification center integration for whispers, attack, in game mail when client is minimized/out of focus

Arenanet released the GW2 API’s, so it’s possible that you could do something like that – but they won’t do it themselves.

Whispers wouldn’t work though. You can’t whisper someone who is offline, and making an exception to that could prove problematic.

saithira.9037:

Would be cool to get notification center integration for whispers, attack, in game mail when client is minimized/out of focus

Great idea for a native OSX client. Not going to happen in the current one.

Cujanoch.3619:

Notifications as in on your computer as per the title of the thread. The feature in the OS.

Specifically when the patching finishes in the launcher.

That’s what the progress bar is for. And the % count. And the files-to-go counter.

Todd.8162:

Cujanoch.3619:

Notifications as in on your computer as per the title of the thread. The feature in the OS.

Specifically when the patching finishes in the launcher.

That’s what the progress bar is for. And the % count. And the files-to-go counter.

Yea, because getting a notification at the corner of your screen notifying you a patch is complete while an app is in the background is exactly the same thing as having an app in the foreground and watching the progress bar.

Yea, because getting a notification at the corner of your screen notifying you a patch is complete while an app is in the background is exactly the same thing as having an app in the foreground and watching the progress bar.

So hard to click the icon in the Dock to check the update progress. I hate doing that.

If you really, really gotta know the second that the game is ready, click the “auto play” box and listen for the game music when it starts.

Todd.8162:

Yea, because getting a notification at the corner of your screen notifying you a patch is complete while an app is in the background is exactly the same thing as having an app in the foreground and watching the progress bar.

So hard to click the icon in the Dock to check the update progress. I hate doing that.

If you really, really gotta know the second that the game is ready, click the “auto play” box and listen for the game music when it starts.

Again, this is not the same thing as an unobtrusive notification in the corner of the screen. I don’t particularly want another application starting up in the background when I have other memory intensive applications running. It also doesn’t just open up in the background, it hijacks being first responder and comes to the front.

It’s not the same and we’re aware of what you’re proposing. It’s a QoL thing. A nice thing to have.