Maybe instead of a real wizard, GIT could just have a loadable config file, with the ability to prompt the user for particular options (kinda like what you can do with saved queries in Access). This would allow the community to create its own "Wizards" in the form of config files with embedded prompt strings. This seems to be in line with Ark's stance of something like, "I only want to have to deal with technical problems with GIT itself, not the peculiarities of your particular game that I have never heard of; let the community help you with that..."
For example, a user could create a "WC3 Client config" that prompts for the server IP and the external local IP, while filling in everything else automagically with the saved config values. (of course this config would need to be used in conjunction with a "WC3 Server config", but you get the idea...)
If the format were simple enough (INI or CSV or XML), people could just post their custom "wizards" to this forum. ;)
This would also be a useful way to implement saving different profiles for playing different games. That would make creating these "Wizards" very easy: a user could just save a working config to a file, open the file, insert the appropriate prompts, and now that file is a "wizard"!
-CyberVenom
e.g.:
wc3.ini
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options=20
frames=20
packets=0
protos=131072
multimax=0
sockshost=
natinternal=[Your Local Internal IP Address]
natexternal=[Your Local External IP Address]
sockets=0
numhosts=1
[host0]
method=3
name=[Remote Server's External IP Address]
port=213
numports=1
[port0]
min=6112
max=6112
desc=Warcraft III