Wildstar New MMO (NCSoft and Carbine Studios)

Just finished up Farside, hated it initially as the domes were just bland. But when you get to the actual moon and especially the quest line that takes you to the Derelict Silo, very cool.

Special mention again to the music direction of the game, absolutely top notch.
 
just checking in. I'm an owner and would like to know if F2P or Buy to unlock access is announced yet. IT's a big download and wanted to know if I should get ready.
 
clartymarty said:
Aw man I cant get to the site work have blocked it! and chance of a summary of what is being said?
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F2P in August, no pay to win, freemium model.

Working conditions are awful, most of the staff have already left with more leaving all the time. Bosses don't know how to run things and are arrogant gits.

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On F2P
Hello everyone! As has oft been discussed around here, Wildstar is going to be changing its business model in August(tentatively of course, patch stuff etc) to a Hybridized Free to Play model. Now thankfully it is not going Pay to Win, I suppose you could call it "Freemium" in a way as a lot of the stuff that the paid accounts will get is buffs to experience/rep/renown etc gain and character slots and the like, no direct power buffs or anything like that.

MTX (Microtransactions) will be included moving forward as well and you will hear more about that very soon. What are your thoughts on the model? I personally like it and am excited as I can't see how this wouldn't bring players back and new players in.

Feel free to ask me anything about the game, company, folly of man, etc.

On working conditions
It's not great. From top to bottom we have handfuls of people leaving every week, there was a stretch where we averaged at least 5 people leaving a week for 5 weeks. As you all probably know we've had 2 Art Directors leave within 8 months, a handful of Producers have left, we still have no Studio Head to replace Gaffney, hell even our Wildstar specific QA is down to about 7 people and a few of them are leaving in the next couple weeks as well. We've had 4 designers from different Feature Teams leave in the past 7 work days as well. There is no transparency and everyone is always fearful of what will even be here 2 months from now. The place is ran very poorly by people who have the biggest egos that fight over everything.

On Steam integration
Hey there! Steam integration has been coming for a while, Valve was in our office here in Orange County back in January. We are trying to get Wildstar to be THE MMO for Steamboxes, IE, Wildstar will be preinstalled with every system. It should be happening before the China launch that's for sure.

Ok, Content Cycles may be hard to explain/understand but I will try. The PLAN is for content to stay at the quarterly cycles that they are now. We have soft and hard locks for everything. That SHOULD not change however we are losing employees left and right, for example our dungeon and raid team is 4 people, we have 5 class designers, hell even our QA team is about 7 people for Wildstar and a few of those people are leaving as well in a few weeks. We have lost 2 Art Directors in less than 8 months along with several Producers. That being said, we have A LOT of features pitched and planned. It was something like 100+ pitched for 1.4.0. Obviously nowhere near all of them will get in but that is just to show you that there is a lot of content being created, whether it gets proper testing, integration, design, etc is another story.

Feel free to ask me anything else.
 
Thank you for that, I always wanted it to go to B2P over F2P. I subbed for a month and loved it but I couldnt justify the sub with the amount of time I was putting into it.

I will keep an eye on this and see how it goes but its a shame really! I really thought this stood a chance!
 
All above is fully rumours only and no confirmation of it being a employee (Except him saying he is....), I wouldn't take any of that to being true until official announcements happen.
 
seems Mmo's really arnt worth the risk these days. I loved this game in Beta and enjoyed it for a while on release but I guess im just fully burnt out from all the years I spent in WOW and can't really enjoy mmo's like I used to anymore.
 
Etheco said:
All above is fully rumours only and no confirmation of it being a employee (Except him saying he is....), I wouldn't take any of that to being true until official announcements happen.
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I agree.

From an end user POV the game seems to be going from strength to strength after the slightly shaky start.
 
Etheco said:
All above is fully rumours only and no confirmation of it being a employee (Except him saying he is....), I wouldn't take any of that to being true until official announcements happen.
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Supposedly he sent proof to the reddit mods. Either way either F2P/B2P or closure is on the cards.
 
NexusK said:
Supposedly he sent proof to the reddit mods. Either way either F2P/B2P or closure is on the cards.
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Yeh mods never actually confirmed it though, but something is on the books the but i will for now ignore current constant b2p/f2p posts :D i love the game and really enjoying it still currently so what ever it goes, long as not pay to win ill stay around.
 
I wouldn't call it a big shame. The game needed something to keep it moving forward and if F2P is it then it's it. It's rare but some games succeed on all fronts from going F2P, fingers crossed this is one.
 
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