Now that you've linked or installed Guild Wars 2 on Steam, go ahead and add the command line parameter to tell the game to use the original launcher instead.

Simply right click on Guild Wars 2 in your Steam Library, select properties and add -provider Portal in Launch Options.


You can now start the game with Steam and login as you normally would in Guild Wars 2.

This path should look like ..\steamapps\common with the .. being the previous folders and harddrive. Example: D:\Games\steamapps\common etc.

You can find this path by starting the download for Guild Wars 2 on Steam, then pausing the download, right click on Guild Wars 2 in your Steam Library, go to Manage and select Browse local files.




For me, this is on my C drive, so C:\Games\Guild Wars 2

To find the guild wars 2 path, simply right click on your normal Guild Wars 2 icon, go into properties and look for the "target" path.



You can do this by searching for cmd on the start bar, right clicking on Command Prompt and selecting run as administrator.




This command does NOT work if the Guild Wars 2 folder already exists within the Steam folder, if it does, it needs to be renamed or deleted.

You have to link the Guild Wars 2 folder, to the install path where Steam would have installed Guild Wars 2.

Simply type the following command:
mklink /J "Steam Path" "Guild Wars 2 Path"
Where Steam Path is your steam installation folder and Guild Wars 2 Path is your Guild Wars 2 folder.

Example in my own case: mklink /J "F:\Steam\steamapps\common\Guild Wars 2" "C:\Games\Guild Wars 2"

This will create a folder "shortcut" in the Steam folder, linking it to your Guild Wars 2 folder, allowing Steam to think the game has already been installed.

Now install the game on Steam in the Steam folder that you linked, if done correctly it will instantly finish and you can now proceed to the next step.

Thanks to Bad Videos with Never (Dungeon47) for showing how it's done, check out his YouTube and give him a like.