the reason behind APIs

#1 - July 7, 2013, 4:32 p.m.
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Why is it so important for Anet to open up new APIs for the community?

I can’t see how this would improve the game… actually quite the opposite. How does this help gameplay? People have to run a second screen (laptop, smartphone etc.) to get the most out of it. You learn that a dragon encounter is open so people port to the next waypoint to farm those bosses – so the scaling can’t cope with the amount of players and the encounters become cake. After the battle people port to the next bossfight.

I don’t get it. “Because they can” is not good enough for me.

#8 - July 12, 2013, 11:59 a.m.
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Hi,

The API Development subforum is not intended for general discussions about the API, but rather technical discussions about how to use the API for developers of applications. We’re working on a message that will be put in a sticky thread in this subforum to better explain this and help this subforum focus on helping application developers.

Thanks for your understanding.