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EVE Online and Destiny/2 have amazing APIs.

I will never play EVE again - not my thing - but I'm frequently tempted to write _something_ that uses the Destiny 2 APIs.

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I remember the Destiny app allowed you to send items from your local inventory to your vault, which was nice, but I always wondered why didn't they just add that functionality to the game itself. An artificial way to increase usage of their app?

One of Destiny's big UI constraints is consoles. Lots of the more ambitious apps only work well because you're on the computer.

And then, I assume, since everyone uses DIM, there's not a lot of reason to build it into the game. Everyone already uses DIM, and it could be construed as stomping over the community. And also like it is sort of dev time wasted; you're reimplementing something that already exists, when you could be building more stuff.

I love their API docs though. Everything is an item. Gah!

(typed while I load into some legendary campaign farming, ha!)

No, since nearly everyone uses 3rd-party apps to do that. Destiny Item Manager or Ishtar Commander.

I use the official app to get my bounties, that's it.

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