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Schubalts posted:Hey now, the ESO devs actually seem to have listened to what players were saying, and people say it's much better than it was at launch. Yeah, ESO's f2p conversion made a big difference. One part of that was a commitment to radically overhauling huge swathes of the endgame. I signed up for the beta, I'll see how it goes. If they do eventually get a commitment to changing things like the ESO team, I suppose they can't make it any worse. 
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Byolante posted:The word from my man in the know is that everyone at carbine is finding the nearest exit and moving to ANY other studio. He wouldn't happen to be your uncle, who used to work for Nintendo, would he?
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Mizuti posted:Turning the game into a more complete and accessible experience takes time and money and they've already pissed away a lot of their time and money with the original HARDCORE! model. I doubt they'll be allotted enough resources to try to bail it out properly. This is the big question. Does Carbine even have the resources to make enough changes by Fall that will solve this problem enough to keep people around and will they spend those resources on the right changes/additions? I realize the overwhelming response will be a flat out "NO" in this thread and I mostly agree, but I am still legitimately curious to see what they plan to do (if anything) as far as big reforms and new content goes. I will say this though. If their plan is to do very little of these things and just hope that the F2P launch will net them enough time and money to start and finish the amount of changes needed then I have a bridge to sell them. Enhancing the gear treadmill aspects of the game is not enough.
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Kelp Plankton posted:See yall in f2p wildstar Don't you threaten me, sir!
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Iron Tusk posted:I have a feeling that it's going to end up being permanent. One would think/hope so, right? Like it removes pretty much all the necessity of anything outside of story quests which is how it should be.
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May 28, 2015 20:47
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GhostBoy posted:He wouldn't happen to be your uncle, who used to work for Nintendo, would he? If you go back into my posts in this thread you will find one where I posted a copy of the friends and family beta email. If you know anyone who works in the industry in that area of the world you could probably hear similar stories.
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Vermain posted:Fortunately, Carbine has hired two of the best people in the industry to deal with their current financial situation. Let's give them a warm welcome!
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May 28, 2015 20:59
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Yay I get to play with my house again! (Literally the only thing I care about)
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May 28, 2015 21:02
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http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/37l82q/wildstar_is_going_freetoplay/crnvo3rquote:Let me leave this rant here. I'd like to make it known before hand that if your name doesn't have "CRB" in it or a Carbine label on your post, you can kindly stick your face in that deep fryer you're working at today. This post isn't for you.
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May 28, 2015 21:43
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Now Fran can save that $15 a month and spend it on some dental insurance.
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May 28, 2015 21:45
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why is the dude bemoaning 15 dollars a month calling out fast food workers? glass houses, jesus. if you can't pay 15 a month a sub-based game whatever that's cool and fine but maybe don't sit on a high horse about people's occupations
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May 28, 2015 21:50
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People are really pissed off about a piece of virtual good.quote:[–]Thorgate [score hidden] an hour ago
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May 28, 2015 21:53
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Even as a person lame and sad enough to occasionally play MMO's I will never understand the obsession so many people have with collecting mounts and pets.
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May 28, 2015 21:56
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It's an extension of playing dress-up. If there is a mount/pet that can only be gotten in one way that is forever closed off, people will want it because of its unique appearance and to lord it over people who missed their chance. Mostly the latter, though.
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The Chairman posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/37l82q/wildstar_is_going_freetoplay/crnvo3r This is so precious. It fills my heart with the sweetest glee.
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May 28, 2015 22:03
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The FAQ for those curious. Didn't notice if it's been linked. Signature(paid) accounts get a 25% rep boost from quests and 50% from kills, along with 25% more XP and a bunch of other poo poo. 
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May 28, 2015 22:04
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The Chairman posted:http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/37l82q/wildstar_is_going_freetoplay/crnvo3r My favorite post from that reddit thread
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Bombogenesis posted:The FAQ for those curious. Didn't notice if it's been linked. Signature(paid) accounts get a 25% rep boost from quests and 50% from kills, along with 25% more XP and a bunch of other poo poo. As awful as it sounds that's pretty par for the course on F2P MMO's. It's actually significantly less restrictive to non-subscribers than The Old Republic, for example.
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Chomp8645 posted:As awful as it sounds that's pretty par for the course on F2P MMO's. It's actually significantly less restrictive to non-subscribers than The Old Republic, for example. Yeah I'm okay with this. basically carbine is selling everyone XP boosters except that the boost is activated all the time.
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desudrive posted:Now Fran can save that $15 a month and spend it on some dental insurance. She can just put the cupcakes in a blender.
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So what are the odds that Carbine isn't just going to reduce all the EXP/Rep given by normal means and the 'Boost' is actually just putting it back to the pre-F2P standard?
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Why the hell would they burn their media capital now, when F2P is still months away? Whoever is in charge of PR at Carbine should be dragged out into the street and shot; all of those potential players that they might have actually lured in thanks to the announcement headlines on the top of every gaming news source are going to have completely forgotten about the game when it finally actually is F2P, and good loving luck getting those headlines again with what will be old news by then. Don't. Announce. Until. It's. Ready.
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Bombogenesis posted:The FAQ for those curious. Didn't notice if it's been linked. Signature(paid) accounts get a 25% rep boost from quests and 50% from kills, along with 25% more XP and a bunch of other poo poo. I like how free players get 1% rested experience for every 12 hours they're logged off.  Father Wendigo posted:So what are the odds that Carbine isn't just going to reduce all the EXP/Rep given by normal means and the 'Boost' is actually just putting it back to the pre-F2P standard? This is almost certainly what will happen.
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It's Carbine, they'll make it so even subbed people still level slower than now because the new casual scum weren't hardcore enough to be around at launch and thus NEED to be punished for the game going F2P/coming into the game late.
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May 28, 2015 23:20
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We live in a strange era in gaming where p2w no longer means paying for in-game advantages and now means "not as bad as x p2w game".
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Belzac posted:We live in a strange era in gaming where p2w no longer means paying for in-game advantages and now means "not as bad as x p2w game". Depends. Exp boosts and money boosts have never counted because even if they technically are bought power, it's immaterial. Other things exist in a waffly area. Like this guaranteed circuit board whatever the poo poo (I don't play this poo poo game) is something I would probably call p2win but other people would just gloss over it.
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biznatchio posted:Why the hell would they burn their media capital now, when F2P is still months away? Whoever is in charge of PR at Carbine should be dragged out into the street and shot; all of those potential players that they might have actually lured in thanks to the announcement headlines on the top of every gaming news source are going to have completely forgotten about the game when it finally actually is F2P, and good loving luck getting those headlines again with what will be old news by then. It's so they can hold a F2P "beta".
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Unguided posted:It's so they can hold a F2P "beta". Well of COURSE when you say it like that, it comes off like they wanna to monetize this transition despite the fact that their product is blatantly not ready.
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VoLaTiLe posted:So how is everyones fav Wildstar personality FranBunny taking all this poo poo? Maybe this could be fun to play again in between FFXIV content cycles, I did miss yelling at people and sherpaing people through the dungeons
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Failboattootoot posted:Depends. Exp boosts and money boosts have never counted because even if they technically are bought power, it's immaterial. Other things exist in a waffly area. Like this guaranteed circuit board whatever the poo poo (I don't play this poo poo game) is something I would probably call p2win but other people would just gloss over it. So subbed players can squeeze slightly more stats onto gear. I guess that is basically "buying for power" but it honestly won't make a huge difference and f2p players can just give the mats to a subbed player.
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May 29, 2015 00:06
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This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it.
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i am tim! posted:Well of COURSE when you say it like that, it comes off like they wanna to monetize this transition despite the fact that their product is blatantly not ready. But that would be entertaining as hell to watch, so I say gently caress the beta 
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I said come in! posted:This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it. 
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I said come in! posted:This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it. 
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So my CREDD is still on my account. All 48 of them...? I knew I was a Wildstar robber baron during launch but I don't remember buying that many. Today it looks like they sell for about 15 to 17 plat each. I was buying them up when they were around 2 to 4 plat each. It's like inheriting a bunch of Walmart stock that your grandpa had, except Walmart is CompUSA in this case.
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I said come in! posted:This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it. 
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May 29, 2015 00:28
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I said come in! posted:This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it. 
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I said come in! posted:This game is a piece of poo poo and F2P isn't going to save it.
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Givin posted:So my CREDD is still on my account. Think of all those box copy mounts you could get.
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