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Wildstar cancelled their Christmas event. They recently announced that they are planning to have their first holiday event.... it's going to be Halloween, in October. Will the game survive that long?
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Apr 17, 2015 22:33
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They also promised monthly 'drops' (their name for content patches), claiming to have 16 planned out in advance. They abandoned that before I believe the 2nd one. They've released 4 so far in 9 months. Featuring exciting new stuff such as: - A new daily zone! - poo poo someone write something to pad this list errr a new daily zone! poo poo we've already said tha- - ? I'm not entirely sure this game wasn't just a scam to begin with.
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Apr 17, 2015 22:48
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don't forget that some carbine dudes were present at blizzcon badge pickup to promote a tour of carbine studios with goody bags from a literal dollar store
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Apr 17, 2015 23:09
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Thanks for reminding me that all their patch and promotional events were scheduled to directly compete against WoW's patching/expansion schedule. They honestly thought they could compete.
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Apr 17, 2015 23:15
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sword_man.gif posted:don't forget that some carbine dudes were present at blizzcon badge pickup to promote a tour of carbine studios with goody bags from a literal dollar store And they showed up in a creepy van no less from what I recall from one poster. Because nothing says that you're good trustworthy people like showing up at a game convention and saying "Hop into my van and i'll give you free goodies and a tour of my studio!".
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Apr 17, 2015 23:15
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I remember their dumb "Come tour our MUCH COOLER office!" campaign, but never that they gave out grab bags from the dollar store. How cheap!
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Apr 17, 2015 23:17
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Thanks for reminding me that all their patch and promotional events were scheduled to directly compete against WoW's patching/expansion schedule. They honestly thought they could compete. no, totally a coincidence that we did that every single time. completely. we assure you.
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Apr 17, 2015 23:17
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i am tim! posted:I remember their dumb "Come tour our MUCH COOLER office!" campaign, but never that they gave out grab bags from the dollar store. How cheap! there was a picture on their facebook and they couldn't even be bothered to put like wildstar stickers on the bags, just the plain-rear end bags that are like ten for a buck
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Apr 17, 2015 23:17
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sword_man.gif posted:there was a picture on their facebook and they couldn't even be bothered to put like wildstar stickers on the bags, just the plain-rear end bags that are like ten for a buck this makes me legitimately happy
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Apr 17, 2015 23:25
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sword_man.gif posted:don't forget that some carbine dudes were present at blizzcon badge pickup to promote a tour of carbine studios with goody bags from a literal dollar store Don't forget that the people they actually got to tour their offices were forced to sign an NDA. I know one of the guys who went and he legitimately WILL NOT talk about it. He knows I can't keep my fat mouth shut. 
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Apr 17, 2015 23:44
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I find it hard to believe that any company could be so amateurish and at the same time so utterly convinced of its superiority and correctness.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:06
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Bombogenesis posted:Don't forget that the people they actually got to tour their offices were forced to sign an NDA. I know one of the guys who went and he legitimately WILL NOT talk about it. He knows I can't keep my fat mouth shut. I don't blame him, the lawsuit would get them more money than Wildstar subs at this point.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:14
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I really liked the theme song from those green guys though I can't remember what they were called to find it again so maybe it was just the best thing of a bad game. I can't believe I played this for two months. I should have stopped when I heard how obnoxious the level up thing was.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:25
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Apparently they just fixed the bug in Crimelords where you'd lose the adventure if you went into combat before Braugh while rescuing him. I got a laugh out of that.
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Apr 18, 2015 00:49
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I hope the composer gets more work, at least. Of all the things wrong with Wildstar, the soundtrack wasn't one of them.
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Apr 18, 2015 01:08
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Dr Snofeld posted:I hope the composer gets more work, at least. Of all the things wrong with Wildstar, the soundtrack wasn't one of them. Sadly I liked a lot of individual things about Wildstar, unfortunately the game as a whole had too many bugs and poo poo decisions dragging it down.
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Apr 18, 2015 01:11
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There were lots of individual things about Wildstar that you could like. That's where most of the hype came from. It was just that most of it was hamstrung by lovely decisions that prevented you from enjoying them. Cool, we developed a new IP. We're calling it Wildstar. One of the character types is a Spellslinger. We're doing this whole "wild west frontier with space magic" thing. Except we aren't really doing that. Have fun leveling in your generic medieval countryside zone, followed by generic ice area zone, followed by generic forest area zone.... Hey, Engineers run off a resource called "volatility." Sounds great, right? You need to balance it, keep it up without getting TOO high, right? Except that aspect of the class doesn't really come into play until WAY into the leveling curve. And several key abilities are part of this dumb Ability-as-loot-drop AMP system. We give you a choice of three AMPs as a quest reward very early in the game. One of them is the AMP that literally every type of build suggests you have. Hope you picked right, cupcake!
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Apr 18, 2015 01:44
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Sankis posted:I really liked the theme song from those green guys though I can't remember what they were called to find it again so maybe it was just the best thing of a bad game. Wiildstar's music was excellent. I rarely play games with the music on, but I definitely kept it on for Wildstar. I also thought the game's art style was quite good, even if it was heavily derived from Pixar. Wildstar got a lot of little things right. If it the game had actually had competent management/design it could have turned out pretty well. I think that is a big part of why it gets so much well deserved hate.
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Apr 18, 2015 01:52
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that the writing kept wanting to change between some kind of grimdark serious space fantasy and lmao aren't we just whacky as gently caress internet culture ahoy was incredibly jarring as well the chua are one of the more egregious recent examples of really just loving horrendous everything
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Apr 18, 2015 03:15
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I played the Wildstar beta. It ran like a shitshow and was not fun. I never played Wildstar again. Well, that's my story, thanks for listening.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:45
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Telling people you got a friends and family invite to the beta was a sackable offence for the person at carbine who gave you the key. Even beta codes are hardcore in wildstar
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Apr 18, 2015 06:27
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Byolante posted:Telling people you got a friends and family invite to the beta was a sackable offence for the person at carbine who gave you the key. Even beta codes are hardcore in wildstar sure did a lot of good.
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Apr 18, 2015 06:29
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Byolante posted:Telling people you got a friends and family invite to the beta was a sackable offence for the person at carbine who gave you the key. Even beta codes are hardcore in wildstar jesus christ
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Apr 18, 2015 06:33
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My Wildstar story is that I played like an hour of open beta, decided that the game is all right but UI is an unusable placeholder that will surely get fixed on release. No, it wasn't a placeholder. The problem was, as it turned out, that I am too stupid to use it properly.
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Apr 18, 2015 10:25
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i played this game and max leveled a dude. then i quit because after max level it was an unfun attunement grind or cheater filled pvp. meanwhile, goons were chanting this games praises up until the child grooming thing. 
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Apr 18, 2015 10:56
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I played a few characters to lvl ~30. It was fun. That was my wildstar story thanks for reading.
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Apr 18, 2015 11:07
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Maybe a wow clone works better if you don't clone wow from the burning crusade era.
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Apr 18, 2015 11:50
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Blazing Zero posted:i played this game and max leveled a dude. then i quit because after max level it was an unfun attunement grind or cheater filled pvp. meanwhile, goons were chanting this games praises up until the child grooming thing. the child grooming thing was archeage, not wildstar
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Apr 18, 2015 12:45
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Thank you for returning Wildstar thread! Glad to see the game is just as bad as before. I tried it again a couple months ago when they started the 10 day trial deal, and man it still feels super...I want to say unpolished, but thats not quite right. It would be an amazing game if it had come out before Lich King, it just feels super dated, and not in a fun way.
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Apr 18, 2015 12:50
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sword_man.gif posted:the child grooming thing was archeage, not wildstar was it? it all just blends together
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Apr 18, 2015 13:28
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dominoeffect posted:sure did a lot of good. He doesn't work for Carbine anymore, he works for CIG (lol)
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Apr 18, 2015 14:52
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Just started a free trial of this. Pretty fun so far. When does it get not fun?
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Apr 18, 2015 14:54
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Rough Lobster posted:Just started a free trial of this. Pretty fun so far. When does it get not fun?
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Apr 18, 2015 15:48
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Rough Lobster posted:Just started a free trial of this. Pretty fun so far. When does it get not fun? Wilderrun. If you can find a decent group, you can probably have an OK time with it now with all that's changed.
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Apr 18, 2015 15:51
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Iron Tusk posted:Wilderrun. If you can find a decent group, you can probably have an OK time with it now with all that's changed. Christ, I blocked out wilderrun from my memory. Farside is really well done at parts, and I didn't mind Malgrave, but gently caress Wilderrun.
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Apr 18, 2015 16:29
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Do they still have that stupid randomized click-only on-screen keyboard for entering your 2FA code on *every* login? Even after I proved it could be trivially defeated with less than 6 hours of effort?
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Apr 18, 2015 16:53
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Iron Tusk posted:Wilderrun. If you can find a decent group, you can probably have an OK time with it now with all that's changed. Counterpoint: Whitevale
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Apr 18, 2015 17:01
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Deki posted:Christ, I blocked out wilderrun from my memory. Farside is really well done at parts, and I didn't mind Malgrave, but gently caress Wilderrun. Whitevale too. Farside is still the best leveling zone out of all of them.
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Apr 18, 2015 17:04
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biznatchio posted:Do they still have that stupid randomized click-only on-screen keyboard for entering your 2FA code on *every* login? Even after I proved it could be trivially defeated with less than 6 hours of effort? No there's a remember this up for 7 days option now. 
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Carecat posted:Maybe a wow clone works better if you don't clone wow from the burning crusade era. I think you may be underestimating how far back Carbine pulls nostalgia from. Wildstar is built on Nostalgia for Vanilla WoW and Planes of Power era Everquest.
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