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noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Had a fun talk with another dude in zone chat that he should yell into his Kinect the phrase "hardcore cupcake" so that he can unlock new amps.

Meanwhile all the other people were still white knighting this game so nothing has changed.

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noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Kimsemus posted:

In unrelated news -- Wildstar is still eating itself alive.

If it wasn't NCsoft, I would almost imagine a company that was converting their game to F2P would consider making sure the server infrastructure could handle it.

Welp.

I hope the new quarter reports come soon

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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quote:

l've noticed lately that there's been an uptick in people using the report system to help keep the subreddit organized and positive, which is good, but some people apparently think reporting posts they just don't like as "sexualizing minors" means it's guaranteed to get someone in trouble.

However, in a stunning coincidence, fully 100% of the mods are literate. We can read the posts you're reporting, and we understand that while "your a fanboy whom sucks, lmao no kappa" is a lovely post, it's not porn.

If you're going to report something, ask yourself:

• Does it actually break a rule, or does it just annoy me?

• What's the actual reason it breaks a rule?

If you're using the reporting function appropriately, then thank you.

The mods can read much like the devs listen Im sure

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Amante posted:

Not gonna lie... after seeing all the recent praise for the Wildstar F2P relaunch in this very thread, I was extremely tempted to make a post asking how many thread posters were in abusive relationships irl. Actually, I guess I just did!

Its me. Wildstar gets picked over me for binges until 5am in the mornings. :smith:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Mormon Star Wars posted:

I'm actually finding Warrior kind of fun?!

I play(ed) stalker and it was fun in PvP. I don't know what I was doing wrong for me to have low dps in PvP though.

Im sure if warriors could heal they'd be able to cover thst role easy as well.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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overwatch is out
Halo 5 is out
Tree of Savior is out (in its 2nd beta)

time to pack it up, wildstar?

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Rhymenoserous posted:

Hard to say to be honest. I know I've seen three goons on my contacts list log in in the last several days, but most of the old guild isn't in my contact list. I joined a pub guild because I'll take active pubs over inactive goons any day.

I could do a writeup on the game on what they are doing right, and what they are still doing wrong, but honestly it feels like it would be pretty wasted on this thread which has largely devolved into street theater.

I'll read it, friend.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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which world bosses need items again? I usually got lucky in /lfg when people wanted to do world bosses...

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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nothing's been leaking out so I guess everyone is now having fun with the game right :smug:

https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/146446-server-family-reunion/#entry1453440

over/under on something loving up?

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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So when blade and soul launches is when the game starts to decline further right?

Also when are those financial reports listing since that's the only way to figure out the true state of the game

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Rhymenoserous posted:


EDIT: Since someone posted in another thread that this game still has a wildly long attunement I feel like I should correct that.

It took me two days to attune after hitting 50 on an alt, and most of that time was spent getting a tanking set built and runed so I could tank my own attunement process.

Yeah the time now is even trying to find a group that won't disband because they have to carry not one, but maybe two people who aren't geared AT LEAST GA gear when their answer in world/LFM chat is "just do world boss runs." And now you have to rune your gear which isn't too bad but the min/maxers are crying so hard.

Also drop 7 won't have any new raids but probably another daily zone or something.


And thanks chairman for being the best mod in that place.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Deki posted:

Did they ever add in a new raid past the launch ones?

They added in a level 50 adventure and made all the spaceship instances scale for level 50s and a new 5 man dungeon other then that nothing new for another dungeon and no new raids since launch.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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randombattle posted:

They aren't very optimistic in that forcast. gently caress wildstar though so it adds up.

400k has saved wildstar!!

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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CoffeeBooze posted:

There are still people on the Wildstar subreddit screaming "THOSE ARE JUST ESTIMATES". Its pretty incredible to see that this far into this disaster.

This is the end for a whole genre to me. In my opinion WildStar is by far the best themepark mmo released after WoW. It has the best and most challenging pve content in decades. It has one of the best combat systems which is action/skill based and there is a ton of highly polished content. Its in my opinion the best F2P game on the market and should never ever face all these population / revenue problems. Instead it should have a healthy 6-7 digit playerbase. After WoW transforming into everything i hate about today's themeparks (starting with WotlK), wildstar is basically exactly what i always hoped and dreamed for wow to come back to. So in that sense, wildstar is some sort of WoW 2.0 and the best thing in years to me, and to a lot of other guys (especially older players that loved vanilla/tbc in wow and are now raiding in wildstar)
If Wildstar fails (again) and finally gets shotdown, it will mark the end of themepark mmo's for me. The shift in player mentality towards dumbed down, short session content full of conveniences is not the type of game i fell in love with so many years ago. So all good things have to end sometime and for me its the moment when wildstar shuts down its servers. There is no point in jumping on the next hype train for another theme park (especially a pve focused one), since the genre and its current playerbase has proven that there is little to no demand for the type of game i want and love.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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CoffeeBooze posted:

I'm not sure this kind of hyperbole is really warranted. I agree with a fair but if what you are saying, but I think you are failing to acknowledge how Carbines totally inability to manage the game is responsible for so much of Wildtars failure. For fucks sake, they botched launching the same game twice.

Also how is B&S shaping up?

Thunderbro posted:

you should really reconsider how you think about "video games played for fun" because the things that you love about these long session, overly addictive games are rightfully considered more and more to be mental illness and not some kind of hobby or diversion


https://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/41rbk8/largest_korean_investment_bank_predicts_grim/cz4oksm

I should've posted my source :smith:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Mayor McCheese posted:

If it helps I thought it was a quote. :v:

this is my favorite one in the link where they actually post the estimates

quote:

It never failed because of the hardcore raids or the challenge. That is completely bullshit.
It failed because it was full of bugs.
It failed because launch was a disaster, with weeks of crashing servers and unplayability.
It failed because the client optimization was nonexistent at worst, biased towards Intel cpus at best.
It failed because server optimization was terrible, with entire zones dying when more than 80 people tried to kill a world boss.
It failed because free one-way PvP to PvE server transfers completely killed off the population of PvP servers, leaving them empty, never to recover.
It failed because instanced PvP itself was unbalanced, unrewarding, and matchmaking was completely broken ("Have you SEEN warplots?").
It failed because F2P re-launch was a disaster, with weeks of crashing servers (sorry, mega-servers) and unplayability.
It failed because they promised monthly content updates then failed to deliver.
It failed because they promised quarterly content updates then failed to deliver.
It did not fail because of the challenging and engaging content it offered despite all this ! Dungeons were awesome, raid design was brilliant. Anyone who has gone through Datascape will tell you the same : this is one of the best raids ever made. The game might have been originally marketed with hardcore content as a selling point, but that's a thing they goddamn delivered on, and it was good.
There is a lot that Wildstar delivered on too, from the very start, that was never made for hardcore raiders : the entire housing system, expeditions, story instances, the hundreds of datacubes and lore entries spread throughout the world, etc.
Neither those, or dungeons, or raids, are the reason Wildstar failed.
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noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Rhymenoserous posted:

Source the quotes man.

People kept calling me a pessimist when I said I'd be shocked if this game is around for another two years.

I got a bit of a kick when they did thought it was an Original Post.

I tried to raid in this game and thought two hours on Tuesday and Thursday night was more than enough for this awful game. Apparently everyone else did too because everyone in the guild i was in quit.

I should find more Wildstar.txt because i haven't seen blinders on this bad before.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Cao Ni Ma posted:

This is a bank speculating on on their possible future revenue. Still it says a lot that the bank expects them to make virtually no money by the end of the fiscal year.

This bank has been on a slim margin of error too regarding their estimates.

But im sure the Chinese and steam release will save Wildstar.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Thunderbro posted:

I bet at this point you can instantly silence anybody on the exec board of ncsoft by uttering power word: wildstar

I wonder if you get a global mute for mentioning it in other NCSoft games

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

Bah gawd he had a family!
The hero the game deserves.

quote:

You forgot to mention that Wildstar also failed because its developers were openly and blatantly hostile to its player base. I mean for gently caress sake, how long ago was it that u/CRB_Timetravel was posting on Reddit blatantly mocking guilds that cleared content after a nerf? The loving moron did it right on Reddit for the world to see, using his Carbine tagged account. No one wants to stick around a game whose developers behave like that. There are just too many MMOs on the market.

He apparently apologized though and didn't mean it in that spirit. The dumpster fire is growing!

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

Bah gawd he had a family!
Ther'es more or less an AMA going on at neogaf right now with former carbine employees and it's basically verifiying (along with some other stuff) the leaks from inside the company a year ago on how inept and disorganized Carbine was with monthly patches and just content in general.

My favorite quote:

quote:

I was actually pretty optimistic honestly. The game had a lot of potential however most of it was bungled by decisions of higher up. Like, I simply cannot emphasize just HOW much mismanagement and egos and plain incompetence ruined the game.

The game has some great content, new, fresh ideas, but it was like giving the keys of a Ferrari to Hellen Keller.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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WILDSTAR IS SAVED

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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PTR news is coming out about the latest drop that people don't like the spawn times in the new zone since a lot of spawns have to do with how the map operates.

No news about redmoon since that's what all the guilds want right now.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Is cyster okay guys :ohdear:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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When's that 1st quarter earnings report coming out so we can have people say "well arcterra just released lets see what happens guys

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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The voice for one of the protostar classes left also

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/151807-wildstar-coming-to-steam/

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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They've reset the reviews so there's nothing there now :smith:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Pesterchum posted:

There wasn't one in the first place, you were looking at what we in the business call a photoshop. Give the game a few months after it actually launches on steam.

I' m ready

:getin:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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They updated and it's actually this friday

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Mormon Star Wars posted:

Can you get protobucks or ncpoints or greencoins or whatever the store currency is with your steam wallet?

Yes...?

You can buy some of the packs through steam but they are overpriced bundles compared getting them through the in game store.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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TheAgent posted:

there's not a single negative review of this trash game in the last 48 hours, good job on getting the last 600 people that play this to shill for ya carbine

There have been quite a few but the hive mind is telling people not to reply or bump those.

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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khy posted:

I played in the beta and got to like, level 15 before getting bored. But I really love the art style. I'm sorely temped to try it again now that it's F2P. Please talk me out of it.

Just play overwatch.

No story, have gun anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours. Set it and forget it!

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Rasmussen posted:

The thread that keeps on giving.

Nah. That was the archage thread once upon a time

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Givin posted:

This gif says it all and has been passed from one Wildstar thread to the next. Haven't seen it in a while so here it shall go.



Someone called out timetravel on this and he back pedaled so hard

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Wildstar: Overwhelmingly Unprofitable

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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RMT will save wildstar :downs:

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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Zombie skin version comes absolutely free after purchasing NCoin

noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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People are complaining on the reddit that the daily log in rewards suck after 300+ days.

I stopped after id say a month of that implemented so kudos to them

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noELrunes
Jan 23, 2004

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http://imgur.com/a/kCHef

Rip wildstar

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