Nahoa.1096

Having access to the steam wallet is the main feature I would love. When you play games on steam many award trading cards you can then sell on the marketplace to fund your wallet (which you can spend on any games/microtranscations within steam!), skins from games like cs:go and such can also be sold for this purpose. That means that when you play other games you're earning money you can then spend in GW2 (if you choose to) which would be awesome! Might seem like not a lot, but many people have earned 100's of $ this way for their wallet (not so much just from cards, but the combo of cards and marketable cosmetics). Steam has more payment methods, and ease of access for regional pricing/payment options that a fair amount of individuals would benefit from (and be able to finally purchase expansions and such without going through hell).

Why would you want to play through steam? What's the difference? I mean you're going to be launching the same game (probably with the same launcher) as you are now but by clicking on an icon on steam. I don't get it either. I know Steam has it's own friends list so I guess it makes it a bit easier to add people you know in real life or from other games, but I don't see why it would be so important to some people to go through a 3rd party to launch the same game they've already got. Yeah, ArenaNet may not have filled out the page fully yet but from looking at the Steam store page I don't think they plan on integrating with Steam's own systems (no mention of steam cards, achievements etc) so I doubt they'd even tie into the Steam friends list. ArenaNet's purpose with this is doubtlessly to get the game in front of new players on Steam. Why they'd tell us existing, established players to wishlist it on Steam is beyond me. I'm sure as heck not going to buy the game a second time and start again. But the part I don't understand is why existing players would want to run the game through Steam. I very rarely use it but my understand is it's basically a 3rd party store/launcher for games, so it's an additional step to have to go through when you want to log in and an additional server which can go wrong (and seems to cause no end of trouble for Elder Scrolls Online players who have to use Steam). What's the benefit for a player in logging in through Steam instead of the existing launcher? Why are so many people disappointed that they won't be able to do that, and even talking about starting over with a new account so that they can?So one big draw for me would be having access to my steam wallet, things I sell on the steam marketplace turn into money on the wallet, if I could then use that money to buy gems in gw2 that's awesome! I.E. I play other games which earn cards, i sell cards from doing so (or even skins in some games) and use that money on GW2 gem shop items. That's a huge increase in ways to spend more money on GW2 this seems like it benefits both the player and ANet to me.