NCSoft's Wildstar MMORPG Adding Free-To-Play Model This Fall

[exfileme]

NCSoft's Wildstar MMORPG is jumping on the free-to-play bandwagon.

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[jpishgar]

I may have to head back.

Played WildStar religiously early on since the beta. Stopped after hearing how the endgame was... not quite, done. But goodness, this MMO had and still has so much ridiculous potential. The housing system alone is the most powerful in any current MMO out there. And the telegraphs and combat is brilliant. The achievements, robust grouping, multiple means of crafting and exploration and everything else. WildStar is the best game that no one is playing.

 

[kenjitamura]

Inb4 the millions of "I told you so's".

 

[jasonelmore]

here's how mmo's live and die (that arent WoW"

1: Spend Hundreds of Millions developing a vast open world MMO and servers to run it all
2: Charge $59.99 on launch, Plus charge $15 a month subscritpion.
3: 3-6 months later, realize your not making enough money to pay back the loans you took out to develop, and spend another 10-15 million to re-engineer the game for Free to play economics.
4: go free to play and start working on a hat simulator, or some shitty crate and key lottery system.

Story of every MMO other than WoW i've ever played. STO, Star Wars, Skyrim, Wild Star,

 

[Quixit]

here's how mmo's live and die (that arent WoW"

1: Spend Hundreds of Millions developing a vast open world MMO and servers to run it all
2: Charge $59.99 on launch, Plus charge $15 a month subscritpion.
3: 3-6 months later, realize your not making enough money to pay back the loans you took out to develop, and spend another 10-15 million to re-engineer the game for Free to play economics.
4: go free to play and start working on a hat simulator, or some shitty crate and key lottery system.

Story of every MMO other than WoW i've ever played. STO, Star Wars, Skyrim, Wild Star,

You missed that the game has to be almost exactly like WoW. Cooldowns, stupid numbers of ablities, talents, just like WoW. That's why they most often fail. No one is innovating they're just making "WoW with aliens" or "WoW with superheros".

This is intensely obvious with games that are followups to other MMOs that came before WoW. Champions Online is more like WoW than City of Heroes and is much worse because of it. Wild Star's fighting system is at least a little interesting but they're still stuck on the "like WoW" bandwagon.

 

[jpishgar]

Soon as I'm done with Galactic Civilizations III (which by the way is heavily overshadowed by StarDrive 2), I'm going to reinstall WildStar and give my gunslinger another go.