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Livin' After Midnight - F2P Launches at 12 am Eastern 9/29 | WildStar | MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited September 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imageLivin' After Midnight - F2P Launches at 12 am Eastern 9/29 | WildStar | MMORPG.com

At the stroke of midnight on September 29th, the WildStar free to play version will go live along with a special live stream broadcast by Carbine Studios. The team has a slate of activities planned including a Times Square countdown to F2P launch.

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  • dirtysidedirtyside Member UncommonPosts: 154
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    edited September 2015
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park. :)


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  • alivenaliven Member UncommonPosts: 346
    SBFord said:
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park. :)
    Just a troll with "lol f2p fail ez mode, qq kktxbb". No sense in responding. 
  • winterwinter Member UncommonPosts: 2,281
    SBFord said:
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park

    Carbine?? The same company that in all their pre-release advertisements billed Wildstar as a "Hardcore" raider only game and then failed to deliver a game even their selected nitch wanted??? 

    Perhaps its not so much we want to see them fail as we don't have your glowing eternal trust in a game company that did so poorly at what they set out to do. Yes, yes its your job to put a positive spin on every MMO and always paint the picture of how wonderful it will be this time around because while they evidently didn't listen to the players wants the first time around they will this time.

      Sorry there is a difference sometimes between painting everyone with a negative comment and those that just are a bit more realistic in their view, color me jaded if you will that's fine, sure its free, but my time is not. There are IMO plenty of decent games to play currently I've seen nothing so far showing wildstar is one of them. We can agree to disagree on this.\

      As to the response from you that no one should say anything or follow a thread unless they are positive and glowing about a MMO, really your going to go there? If one doesn't read up one will never learn if something has gotten better, if no one ever made a critical statement then Carbine certainly would have any information on where they might improve.


      Yes all negative is bad, but then so is the attitude that everything is wonderfull and positive this time because the game developer says they listened to the fan base and change their game, when the first time they seemingly didn't listen. (or perhaps they only listened to a very loud minority the first time?)

  • bradflewellingbradflewelling Member UncommonPosts: 2
    Someone is butthurt
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    @winter Since WS hasn't even debuted the F2P edition, no one actually knows if they've made it better or not. I guess everyone will find out on Tuesday. :)


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  • FomaldehydeJimFomaldehydeJim Member UncommonPosts: 673
    Oh good, can we also have a Times Square countdown for DeLorean, Betamax and New Coke?
  • ValentinaValentina Member RarePosts: 2,109
    edited September 2015
    SBFord said:
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park. :)
    YASSSS. Queen. Personally, I am excited for the transition. I really enjoyed Wildstar and for a lot of people the business model prevented them from wanting to continue with it. I have a lot of friends who are going back, and I'm joining them! I've played on the test server, there are a great deal of improvements all around, some of which I'm a little iffy on (such as the sprint thing) but that could just be a matter of getting used to it.
    winter said:
    SBFord said:
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park

    Carbine?? The same company that in all their pre-release advertisements billed Wildstar as a "Hardcore" raider only game and then failed to deliver a game even their selected nitch wanted??? 

    Perhaps its not so much we want to see them fail as we don't have your glowing eternal trust in a game company that did so poorly at what they set out to do. Yes, yes its your job to put a positive spin on every MMO and always paint the picture of how wonderful it will be this time around because while they evidently didn't listen to the players wants the first time around they will this time.

      Sorry there is a difference sometimes between painting everyone with a negative comment and those that just are a bit more realistic in their view, color me jaded if you will that's fine, sure its free, but my time is not. There are IMO plenty of decent games to play currently I've seen nothing so far showing wildstar is one of them. We can agree to disagree on this.\

      As to the response from you that no one should say anything or follow a thread unless they are positive and glowing about a MMO, really your going to go there? If one doesn't read up one will never learn if something has gotten better, if no one ever made a critical statement then Carbine certainly would have any information on where they might improve.


      Yes all negative is bad, but then so is the attitude that everything is wonderfull and positive this time because the game developer says they listened to the fan base and change their game, when the first time they seemingly didn't listen. (or perhaps they only listened to a very loud minority the first time?)

    All their advertisements? Pretty sure their advertisements and promotional sessions on the game highlighted a variety of content, and they were actually pretty clear about how they were building the game for different audiences. I mean, really we can take a visit to YouTube if we need to. Also what the poster she responded to said was pure negativity, there was nothing even remotely subjective about his statement, it was just there to literally be negative.
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    edited September 2015
    @valentina
    In case anyone missed it:

     Due to some closed beta tester keys expiring, Carbine has decided to remove the need for a key altogether and has opened the doors wide for anyone who'd like to download and try out WildStar's F2P version before it hits live service next Tuesday.

    Hey Everyone –

    We’re aware that there are some people experiencing issues with their beta keys expiring. Upon further investigation we’ve decided to remove the need for them altogether.

    Come on in and give free-to-play a taste test by downloading the test server client (http://wildstar.patc...WildStarPTR.exe), logging in, and having fun.

    See you on Nexus!

    Team WildStar

    Source: WildStar forum


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  • ceratop001ceratop001 Member RarePosts: 1,594
    SBFord said:
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You're kidding, right? Once failed, never again? Tell that to the Final Fantasy XIV team. ;)

    Carbine has worked quite hard to make community-based alterations to the game in preparation for this new iteration. It is an event because it's the start of a hopefully long life for WildStar.

    I don't think I'll ever understand why it is that some want games to fail. Don't like it? Don't read the news about it or play it. But don't besmirch it or belittle people who are interested.

    The MMO genre is enhanced by successful games. I for one hope they hit it out of the park. :)
    I doubt it will the combat mechanics are just not right. I hope they succeed but seriously doubt they can with the funky mechanics in place.
     
  • observerobserver Member RarePosts: 3,685
    dirtyside said:
    why is this an event ? if the game has already failed and now going to f2p ...... i dont understand
    You'll be surprised how many people don't play MMOs because of subscriptions. When an MMO goes F2p, especially on Steam, they get thousands of new players that try it out. Good luck Carbine.
  • orbitxoorbitxo Member RarePosts: 1,956
    looking forward to leveling a new class and start rading again with guildies into DS!!!, GA was a blast!!!
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