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Yunte · Jun 16, 2007, 09:46 PM // 21:46

This is one of two suggestions re-posted with a thread of its own as my previous one was Closed - please see the first one if you haven't already.

Here is my second suggestion:

Website-Game Integration

Some might consider this unnecessary or disadvantageous, but I think it would prove useful to a lot of players (I asked around in-game about this and got some approval at least). Those who have ever played Neverwinter Nights 1/2 online are likely familiar with the Buddy list, which can be viewed from nwn.bioware.com by logging in with your game account - it displays your Friends list and, where applicable, it shows who is playing where (server IP).

I think it would be nice to have a similar feature on the official Guild Wars websites, whereby you can log on with your game account to view your friends list and guild roster as they would appear in-game. If anyone is wondering what benefit this would be; I, myself, sometimes only log on to play with a certain friend or guildie. It can be a pain to launch the game and log in just to check who is online, whereas it would be much easier to check via the website. And, of course, this would mean you could check who is online from work/college/school without needing the game.

Anyway, I should best leave it at that. Opinions are welcome, obviously.

Yunte · Jun 16, 2007, 09:57 PM // 21:57

Replies made in the original thread:

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Originally Posted by Realm of Fiery Doom

Everybody likes useful tools, but I think this one might be a bit too hard to put in, and would require a lot of space. Imagine the servers looking through the friends list of about 10,000 people, each with about 20 names on it. I'm no geek, but I bet that'll take a lot of server space

(Correct me if I'm wrong - like I said, I don't know too much about computers

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Blizzard managed to pull it off for World of Warcraft with their Armoury - yes, I know they charge monthly, but ANet seems to be doing pretty well for themselves too

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Originally Posted by Bazompora

I'm opposed to this suggestion, as it might result in people dropping by even less in the game.

This is what I thought, but I'm sure that kind of effect would be minimal and likely not noticeable without some statistics.