Carbine Studios' "Wildstar"

[Flood]

I'm probably going to buy it.  I played in the Beta for a little bit, got to like level 10.  At first the shitty UI and all the other little things put me off, but it got a bit better as it went along.  I'm feeling the MMO urge again, and I'm not going back to WoW so I guess it's WildStar.

[Cyrrex]

Despite my utter disgust at...well, mostly myself...I have been looking at this from arm's length and can't help but be a bit intrigued.  Their marketing guys do a good job of making it look fun.  I wish they'd stop that.

[Nebu]

Despite my utter disgust at...well, mostly myself...I have been looking at this from arm's length and can't help but be a bit intrigued.  Their marketing guys do a good job of making it look fun.  I wish they'd stop that.

My only fear is that their marketing department is better than their game development department.

[Simond]

While the pre-orders are busy doing the queue dance, here's the attunement details for the entry level raid:

[01101010]

Wait, so that is just to be able to raid? 

[Tannhauser]

/uninstall

[Zetor]

And you can only do those in sequence too, right (so can't get credit for world bosses before you're done with the dungeon speedruns)? We're going to need a bigger  .

[jakonovski]

On paper I like elaborate stuff like this, but since it requires a guild and I can't be arsed with that show & dance...

fake edit: how do people know this shit already, game's not even out and seems like even high level content is old hat to the crazies.

[SurfD]

On paper I like elaborate stuff like this, but since it requires a guild and I can't be arsed with that show & dance...

fake edit: how do people know this shit already, game's not even out and seems like even high level content is old hat to the crazies.

Going to assume datamining.  Though how you would get the correct order out of datamined data i am not sure.  Of course, it is possible that max level beta-testers have already done it so they know for sure. I dont know if beta testers had access to EVERYTHING, or just the basics.

[Xanthippe]

Are you kidding?

A game would have to be the most fun game to play ever to make me want to do all those things out of sequence. I don't think any game has ever been fun enough to make me want to do those things in sequence.

[01101010]

Well this is to unlock raiding which very few people here are actually interested in so it can be dismissed for the most part.

[Rendakor]

All of that shit sounds cool and interesting to the kid with no life who also hasn't burnt out on MMOs. I know, I was that guy once. Now I look at that and I just dread dragging new guild members through it. Glad the combat didn't hook me for this game.

[Miasma]

I don't think kids like that even exist anymore.  When we were kids an mmo might be one of your few options for entertainment but there are millions of other things vying for their attention these days.  That is a plan made by manchildren looking at their past with rose tinted glasses forged out of magical nostalgia sand instead of realizing "holy shit was I stupid for doing all that shit back in EQ".

I assume it's launch now, how are the servers doing?

[Nija]

Wow, maybe I should move my comments from the ESO thread over here before people think I typed that up after the fact.

Welcome to Wildstar! Enjoy America's best attempt at Korean Grind Theater!

[Nevermore]

Despite my utter disgust at...well, mostly myself...I have been looking at this from arm's length and can't help but be a bit intrigued.  Their marketing guys do a good job of making it look fun.  I wish they'd stop that.

My only fear is that their marketing department is better than their game development department.

Did you not try this out in the beta already?  Their marketing department is absolutely lightyears better than their game development department.

[Cadaverine]

I assume it's launch now, how are the servers doing?

Reportedly, they got DDOS'd at midnight, but after an hour or so they seemed to have things in order, as I was able to get logged in.  They've been stable so far, and I'm on one of the full servers.

[Simond]

I don't think kids like that even exist anymore.  When we were kids an mmo might be one of your few options for entertainment but there are millions of other things vying for their attention these days.  That is a plan made by manchildren looking at their past with rose tinted glasses forged out of magical nostalgia sand instead of realizing "holy shit was I stupid for doing all that shit back in EQ".

Reminder: Wildstar's devteam have a number of ex-Blizzard people who left during TBC.

I assume it's launch now, how are the servers doing?

What do you think? 

[Nebu]

Well this is to unlock raiding which very few people here are actually interested in so it can be dismissed for the most part.

This ^^^

[Fabricated]

I was just about to come here and ask if that image was right.

Lmao; yeah whatever let's just dismiss it because people I guess aren't interested in it instead of calling it out for being absolutely retarded.

[01101010]

I was just about to come here and ask if that image was right.

Lmao; yeah whatever let's just dismiss it because people I guess aren't interested in it instead of calling it out for being absolutely retarded.

I just assumed that was understood and didn't need to be said...   

[Fabricated]

This would be the MMO failure to watch if TESO didn't exist.

[Signe]

I haven't had any server or login issues at all so far.  The game is also very quick for me.

There are gold spammers, of course, doing the extremely annoying tactic of making the advert very long and doing them in a way that it makes it difficult to find a name.  You can right click and ignore, but I couldn't get it to work.  I noticed they're spamming the "Advice" channel so I turned it off.  I don't need no fucking advice anyways.  This game's spam seems to be rich with tricks to avoid being id'd, persistent in being repetitive, and very, very prolific.   They go out of their way... way WAY out of their way to make sure you see them.    Dammit.

[Pennilenko]

My wife has continued the tradition of buying a new MMO for me to "try" out without asking me if I have played it yet or not in a beta. So it looks like I have 30 days to play this. Even if I don't want to play it, I refuse to have the money wasted by just ignoring it. I will get sixty bucks worth of hours out of it even if I just screw around and consume bandwidth.



Edit: Also, the slow download is pathetic. This is 2014, 1.5 MB/s is shameful. What a complete waste of my 55 Mbps connection.

2nd Edit: I am probably going to bitch about everything I possibly can now.

[Threash]

This would be the MMO failure to watch if it wasn't work TESO.

I am actually pretty curious to see which does worse: the horribly made game built around decent ideas or the really well made one built around shitty ideas.

[Nebu]

I'm finding the game to be a fun distraction.  I'm sure I'll get enough out of it to justify the cost, but I doubt I'll play longer than a month or two.  It's just too twitchy for an old man like me.

[Pennilenko]

It's just too twitchy for an old man like me.

That sentiment doesn't really sit well with me. Some of my best FPS buddies are well past their 60s and I have been playing with some of them for nearly twenty years.

[Miasma]

It's not an fps kind of twitchy, that's just aiming as fast as you can.  This is dodge, roll back, charge, get ouf of that red circle, get in that green square, oh shit interrupt - all while trying to activate your abilities which require proper placement and orientation.

[Nebu]

That sentiment doesn't really sit well with me. Some of my best FPS buddies are well past their 60s and I have been playing with some of them for nearly twenty years.

My bad.  I forgot that anything I say on f13 will be nitpicked to death in some type of semantics argument.  I'll be more careful using self-mocking sarcasm in the future.   

[Fabricated]

This would be the MMO failure to watch if it wasn't work TESO.

I am actually pretty curious to see which does worse: the horribly made game built around decent ideas or the really well made one built around shitty ideas.

I have no idea what happened to that sentence. I think I was cutting and pasting something in another window.

But yeah.

[Sjofn]

Well this is to unlock raiding which very few people here are actually interested in so it can be dismissed for the most part.

It amuses me mostly because you'd think with the 40 man raids they'd want to shove as many warm bodies into the "raider" pool as possible. But hey, it's their wasted dev time, not mine!

[Morfiend]

My friends talked me in to preordering this several months ago against my better judgement. I am not sitting in 157 hour queue to join the server they picked (Prego?).

[Lucas]

So, have they already started to add dozens and dozens of servers to satisfy the angry pre-launch/launch mob, only to get bad press later when they'll inevitably start to merge?  

[01101010]

Like sands through the hourglass . . .

[Signe]

Here's the list of servers:

North America
Avatus (PvE)
Caretaker (PvE)
Mikros (PvE)
Orias (PvE)
Stormtalon (PvE)
Thunderfoot (PvE)
Pago (PvP)
Pergo (PvP)
Widow (PvP)
Evindra (Roleplaying)
Myrcalus (Oceanic PvE)

Europe
EN
Ascendancy (PvE)
Eko (PvE)
Hazak (PvP)
Lightspire (Roleplaying)

DE
Kazor (PvE)
Ikthia (PvE)
Progenitor (PvP)
Toria (Roleplaying)

FR
Stormfather (PvE)
Treespaker (PvP)
Triton (Roleplaying)

[dd0029]

So, they have a an apparently permanent xp/currency bonus for attaching a Google authenticator. Kind of interest carrot to get people to use one. Their implementation though is terribly tedious. You need to mouse click randomized number locations for some reason instead of using a keyboard.