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How well do you think it'll do once it's f2p?
Title.
I'm thinking of picking this up or just delving into another title;
GW2
Skyforge
ESO
WoW (recent expansion announcement has me intrigued)
I'm thinking of picking this up or just delving into another title;
GW2
Skyforge
ESO
WoW (recent expansion announcement has me intrigued)
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The humor is a bit over-the-top at times, but it's a fun experience. I'll probably play it more when it's free, so I can play with my kids.
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That being said I know there are a lot of different things coming out next week for the game so I am looking forward to it. I hope the cash shop sells different shells for my droids or at least add some more to the game for cosmetic flavor. I also have seen an uptick of players recently so I'm really hoping people give this another try.
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It's a completely different crop of kids these days. They are saturated and inundated with hundreds more titles on the market. Picking a game and sticking with it for a long time is "lame" and "boring". Doubly so if the game has a long grind before the player can even get into the "end game".
I've heard they back-tracked on a lot of this stuff and have reduced the "keying" grind and even reduced the player size for raiding which should probably help. I think it will survive for a while after going F2P, but I also think that the ship sailed for it becoming wildly popular. Most kids will only give a game one shot and move on forever.
The F2P will draw people in. All of these people looking for a game, between games, or just playing every game they can will certainly give it a go. The suckers will spend money right away, because they equate immediate enjoyment of something new as a worthwhile investment. (these are the same people who get married after a month, the same people who think a song is good because they can dance to it. Mostly your average consumer)
Once the money has been spent, they will feel obligated to play it further. Even after that "new care smell" has gone away. The game, on paper, will seem like a success. Money will have been made, the community will be thriving (to a certain degree) and people will convince themselves that they are playing a good game because of these numbers. They will especially love throwing these numbers back in any doubters face, all the while claiming that Wildstar was a good game right from the get go.
In reality, all of these people will jump ship once something better comes a long. That shallow experience they believed to be genuine will fade as something with real substance is presented in front of them.
Luckily for Wildstar, there is nothing like that out there or on the horizon. So, like i said before, I think Wildstar going F2P should do fine.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I like WildStar quite a lot, except for the fact that there weren't enough people to play with. If there are others, it should be fun, especially if they stay away from an Allods type cash shop.
GW2, I think is a much different experience as far as endgame, gear leveling, pvp, and so on. It's just a different type of game.
Shame. It would have been an amazing title. I bet Wildstar turns into the TF2 of MMOs. Great if you enjoy that type of enviroment. I don't.
If the game is not good enough to play as a sub,it is not good enough under any circumstances.
It is like someone hands you a rotten apple,you take a bite and say yuck.Then buddy says oh but wait,you don't have to pay for it ,i'll give it to you for free,oh yeah now that rotten apple sure tastes good..../not.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
IMO there are many fundamental issues with this game, unrelated to its monetisation, and also largely unrelated to the "hardcore label".
For a game that revolves largely around combat, the combat is horrible. It provides none of the stimulation, pace, responsiveness, or visceral fun of FPS/TPS or action combat (as seen in several other MMOs), but it still requires the same amount of attention. Tedious combat that requires a lot of attention is just exhausting.
TBH, If I wanted to endlessly prance around different coloured shapes on the ground I'd buy Wii Dance Dance Revolution.
And if I ever see one of those unsolicited Challenges throwing timers and irritating text all over my screen again, I might just throw my computer out the window.
Quests are the laziest of lazy in terms of their design, quest pathing is poor, pvp is a flustercluck, the jump between eazimode open world content and unforgiving group content did not allow for any acclimatisation (this is not an issue with hardcore, it is an issue with badly designed hardcore), and that obnoxious text constantly appearing all over your screen is infuriating.
On a positive, the gating before endgame content I believe has mercifully been removed, and the housing is quite nice.
There's Tera Online, Rift, Aion, LOTRO, DDO, and ESO just to name a few. With the F2P model it is possible that a smaller core audience can successfully support a title.
Ultimately we have to consider why players left in the first place. I highly doubt it was because there were tons of rabid fans that simply considered $15/month to be too much. Personally I quit because Wildstar turned out to be the next in a long line of WOW clones with traditional leveling, grind, and shit PvP. A great deal of the community left in droves after there initial sub time expired and I see no reason why they would want to return.
In the mean time new competition is here or just around the corner. Skyforge is quite fun right now, but we'll have to see how they handle future monetization with upcoming events. Blade and Soul will grab some players' attention as will Black Desert and the new WOW expansion. By the time late 2016 rolls around Kickstarter titles like Crowfall, Camelot Unchained, and Star Citizen will at least be in open beta.
In the end I think some players will try the game again or give it a go for the first time. I don't think players will be interested in making a long term commitment but Wildstar will somehow retain a small core audience for a while. Wildstar simply doesn't offer any unique gameplay or anything that isn't being done much, much better on other titles. I don't think it will be enough to sustain the game for more than 12-18 months when we'll all be reading 'Wildstar - What Went Wrong?' mmorpg.com articles.
The reason for that is WildStar has changed since launch. It has changed in significant ways. We will need to see whether many people find those changes to be better now with f2p or not.
However, your apple has not changed except for the fact that it would have gotten more rotten.
I think WS had a lot of good qualities and would have been funner if more people were playing. If more people play and stay, WS will be one of the best f2ps on the market. Depending on the CS, too, of course.