Remote Storage

Hello all, forgive me if this suggestion has been made a thousand times before but I think this would be very useful....

You could go to the GW website and log in with your normal name and password. At this point you could just view your storage chest, moves items around and organise them, check stats for your items etc etc.

When I am at home on my pc, that is valuable playing time and I don't want to spend it organising storage, posting on pc forums, buying and selling on GW guru etc.

If however, you could log in and view your items on a normal website (i.e. not neccessarily from a computer installed with GW) then you could easily manage your storage on the way to work on your i-phone or android, or perhaps, even over lunch from your work pc!

Anyway, only been playing GW for 3 months, and loving it. Just having my two pennys worth!

That would help me maximise play time, and imo that's a very good thing indeed!

I'm afraid this could open up a serious security issue. Any phishing site, trojan, host redirection, proxy etc could redirect you to a webpage that records your account details.

The only way they would allow such a feature would be if they give you a special ingame code that acts as a loginname for for remote storage, then if anyone gets hold if it all they can do is move your stuff around, not steal it.

Will this happen? I estimate 0.0000% chance in GW1, and about 10% in GW2. Reason for GW2 is that they already work on an "Extended Experience" feature that will allow other forms of remote access to your account while on a smartphone or similar.

No way, José.

Why would you want to see your inventory from outside the game?
When you are trading outside the game, like in external auction sites and such.

That's probably as hard as adding an actual in-game trade system, and I'd much rather have an actual in-game trade system, instead making easier to use external ones.

I wouldn't be against it, though, if it allowed trade within the system, instead just being a mere way to facilitate using external trading tools.

I would be concerned about how much control you would have over your account with access from this proposal. More details on that? However, I don't see a need for it and would be concerned about security issues.

/1 Star security and usefulness doubted

Seems pretty unnecessary. If you're at school or work, you shouldn't be organizing your storage anyway , and if you're at home, well, you can just go ingame. I can't really think of a situation where I would be away from my pc and, all of the sudden, have the urge to organize or check my storage.

Security would be a really big issue. Since your storage is tied to your account you'd have to use the same credentials to access it from a web site. Even though the site would use SSL or some other form of encryption it still would not be as secure as the game client itself.

On top of that I really see no need to access storage while not logged in to GW.

/not signed....I agree with the big security issue this would raise ....
(I also thought remote storage would be more of a 'when you enter an outpost you could click on a link that would just open storage, without having to mill around getting over to it/locating it')

/signed, great idea.