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I didn't even last the free month...
Despite hating beta, I started to get interested in this game again since I was reading a lot of fantastic reviews.
So, my plan: Get a 7 day code from a friend, play a few characters to level 20 to see if it was enjoyable, and bam, decide.
The first seven days were fantastic. I loved the telegraph system; the questing was fresh(ish), and the general feel of the game was really really good. So, after my seven days, I purchased the game.
It only took about two weeks for me to regret my purchase and here is why:
1) Although I do consider myself a "hardcore" player, since I've always spent many many hours raiding, doing hardmodes, etc in other games, the time I spent playing Wildstar just felt.... tiring. After the first two weeks (trial included), I started hating the way my hands felt after the game. My teeth were always clenched. My jaw began to hurt. I stopped wanted to log in because I knew I'd have some physical issues afterwards.
Most games feel fairly relaxing to me, even in those hardcore raid settings where every little bit of dps/healing/threat counts and you're narrowly missing instant death every second. But this game just does things to me that make it tiresome. Even at a basic questing level, Wildstar feels tedious.
2) Because of reason #1, I ended up spending a gratuitous amount of time on housing. Housing is cool and all, but it isn't a social experience. I'm basically playing Minecraft with better graphics and a really limited space.
3) PvP is nothing but a giant clusterfuck of telegraphs, (which adds to #1).
I don't want to lure people away from trying this game. It really is a phenomenal game on so many levels. It's just a difficult game for people who enjoy games. I've heard it a lot that this game causes issues like mine above and at first I sort of dismissed it as carebear complaints. And maybe it is.
But, to me, there is a big difference between a challenge and physical irritation.
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My feelings of Wildstar exactly.
Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
Agree with your points to be fair, the game is hectic. Think that's what draws me to it in a odd way, i like game that have me clenching my arse, smash bros, LoL, S4, Tera (In some ways). In some way though i can't see appealing to the mass just because of how manic it can be hmm..
Housing can be very anti-social, but then i found the houseing lovers circle or something like that, it open up doors abit, it's like a guild but not. just random guys that love housing and like to show off what they have to each other by making each other neighbours. Circles are a nice little way of meeting guys that like the same stuff, crafting, dungeons, gathering.
PvP, no idea lol it is just madness. Not sure if it's any good in arean 3v3 2v2 were it can be controlled better, but yeah it's over the top in the BGs. You do get the odd moments of you vs 2 and wipe the floor with them haha
I think WS might be the last in a long line of big budget mmorpgs built to try capitalize on WoW's success.
Same here. Also the small and boring quest text bubbles from meaningless npcs. I really want to read it and give the lore a chance but it is so incredibly tiring, empty and I find it impossible to care.
A real shame. I like many aspects but the game can't deliver.
i see many people saying that the game is hectic, but it is not in my opinion. As soon as you turn off the screenshake its pretty laid back as well. I personally stopped playing after finishing my raid attunement, because i was totally burned out on boring content. I didnt enjoy running dungeons day in, day out in any way just to get the timerun right. Though i went through the pain to do it with varying groups, so it was even more of a pain. I would have loved wildstar for what they praised it, but in the end its sadly not that much different from other mmos, except a few certain things.
Things that bothered me the most are basically bugs that existed since early betas and still didnt get fixed. Also the "Attunement Quest" was nothing but a waste of time. Just a Contentblock. No Epic storyline or too much sense behind why you gotta do that stuff. I mean..you gotta kill 12 World Bosses, and for most of them, there is not a challenge at all. you just spend 30mins hitting a world boss with a 5 man group with scaled-down damage. He practically does no damage to the group whatsoever. Also some of the world bosses are still bugged since early betas.
In no way im trying to tell anybody not to try the game yourself - its up to you in the end, but it just couldnt grasp my attention long enough.
Well duh, everyone know this. The "hit harder" part is still up for debate and being tested daily.
lmao too funny and was too true. Thank goodness there are a couple releases in the past year or so that have moved away from this
Block button ftw!
We say that every time one comes out and does this, but there always seems to be one more.