GW2 Steam Runner tells Steam that Guild Wars 2 is running as if it were the Steam edition from the Steam store. This helps keep Steam player counts and engagement up. Unfortunately Steam player counts have increasingly influenced player's decisions in which game they might try out. Therefore it is important that Guild Wars 2's player base appears as healthy as it really is, Steam edition or not.
- Tells Steam you are playing Guild Wars 2, thus accumulating Steam play time and contributing to Steam player counts.
- Enables Steam in-game overlay (shift+tab by default)
- Can be turned off in Steam Library (Guild Wars 2 Right Click > Properties... > Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game)
- Install GW2 Addon Manager
- Extract the latest release .zip to \addons (e.g. C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\addons) such that the folder structure looks like:
Guild Wars 2
├───addons
| ├───gw2_steam_runner
| | appid.cfg
| | gw2addon_gw2_steam_runner.dll
| | steam_api64.dll
| └───<other addons>
└───<game files>
- Steam must be running (the addon will start it in the background if it is not running)
- The logged in Steam account must have Guild Wars 2 in their Steam account library (can be added for free via the Steam store page) IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE INSTALLED.