Original Url: http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/community/api/Free-to-Play-Accounts-access-to-API

Chaba.5410:

Hello,

Something I am not seeing in any FAQ: are the free-to-play accounts going to be allowed to make API keys? Or will there be an API method available to detect if an account is free-to-play?

darthmaim.6017:

Yes, f2p accounts can currently make API keys. But I keep getting “ErrInternal” when trying to access authenticated API endpoints with my test account I just created (/v2/accounts).
Tokeninfo works fine.

Edit: Seems like I needed to create a char first. It’s all working now.

Lawton Campbell.8517:

darthmaim.6017:

Edit: Seems like I needed to create a char first. It’s all working now.

I should probably make that error a bit more obvious; it’s something I run into a lot when testing.

chaly.7638:

Chaba.5410:

..Or will there be an API method available to detect if an account is free-to-play?

From my point of view the ability to access the world-vs-world (f2p account without lv60 character) is needed in the account API. We’re using this information for server affiliation.

Chaba.5410:

chaly.7638:
Chaba.5410:

..Or will there be an API method available to detect if an account is free-to-play?

From my point of view the ability to access the world-vs-world (f2p account without lv60 character) is needed in the account API. We’re using this information for server affiliation.

Since F2P accounts have many other restrictions in addition to not being able to play WvW until lvl 60, it would allow for a wider variety of applications to expose account type through /v2/account. The same can be said of core accounts and HoT accounts since core accounts will not have the new class, masteries, or access to HoT maps.

chaly.7638:

I agree, there should be some information about the generic flags for the /v2/account.
It doesn’t have to be labor-intensive at all, maybe just an array e.g.

flags: { hot_enabled: 1, wvw_enabled: 1, free_to_play: 1 }

I can imagine that it isn’t that easy to bring this information from backend to an API output, but I think it is essential and versatile for app development.

Macha.9160:

Anything new on this topic?

Lawton Campbell.8517:

Not really; been pretty heads-down working on WvW endpoint stuff.

chaly.7638:

I always try to avoid bumping a thread, but ..

For world-vs-world free accounts became a hot topic.
Any chance this gets on the contemporary roadmap?