This?

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/25839-carbine-abandoning-monthly-wildstar-content-...

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Seems like it is just Carbine being realistic, not a death knell

So when will it go F2P

FakeStrake wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2014 at 8:11pm:


I hope before.  I wouldn't mind having another go at the game free, but if ESO goes f2p first I wouldn't give wildstar a second look for years.

Ncsoft fired the producer of wildstar.



Hey guys. 

I wanted to let you know that I’m stepping down as President of Carbine Studios. I’m not leaving entirely; I’ll be adopting more of a consulting role going forward with Carbine (and possibly elsewhere in the industry down the road).

This is not a bad thing. Some of our current development stars will be stepping up to lead WildStar forward while I can help work with them from the outside.

I have a personal “no bullshit” policy (which I think I’ve infused Carbine with as well), so let me give some context here without getting too personal.

“Focusing on family” is most often, in my opinion, a horseshit excuse you hear from executive types (usually departing with a forcible shove).

In my case, it is part of my reason for stepping down - through 2013, my wife and I lost six members of our families to various reasons – mostly cancer. I myself was diagnosed at the end of last year with a fatal-if-untreated form of skin cancer.  I had let it go untreated/undiagnosed for over 9 months while focusing on work instead. I dodged a bullet; surgery was successful and I’m cancer-free - but (if you ever go through anything similar you’ll know) that’s a hell of a wake-up call.

I mention this now (I usually don’t talk about personal stuff, because who cares) to say: don’t be my brand of idiot, if you see an unusual mole or marking get it checked out ASAP; there’s worse stuff out there than what I had.

On the professional front, when you lead a team this size in a company this size, there are a variety of strong opinions on every major decision. It’s been a pleasure helping steer us through to launch, but I think having one less strong opinion in the mix can be a good thing too. Even if I’m always right, of course.

Anyways, all this culminates in a need to take some time off before leaping into the next set of adventures.  This has not been an easy decision for me to make, as I’ve pretty much poured my life into Carbine and WildStar. I’m proud of what we accomplished; we took a no-name IP to a big ass MMO launch, which ain’t easy in this day and age. There’s more work to do (the devs are indeed listening) but we have a great team to do it with as well.

I think it’s important that the folks here coordinate together around a single vision to move forward, and as part of that I’m looking forward to working with NCSOFT and Carbine in a very supportive role moving forward. I’ll likely not be as active in the forums and community as I have been in the past (some of y’all have noticed this already as I’ve worked here on my transition over the last months). But I’m far too passionate about you and WildStar to just get up and go entirely; while my role has changed, my voice hasn’t.

Thanks guys for your support and for being passionate WildStar fans – I remain one too.

-jg

TractorsareEpic wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 3:14pm:


Sadly, the instanced area's are already cross server queues (thanks god for spell checking there) So the long wait times for dungeons, instances, pvp, battlegrounds, ect will not change.

Its nothing more then putting 8 tons of lipstick on this pig. merging servers 10-1 doesn't require a "megaserver". PR spin does though. 

Called it.

Strakeln wrote on Sep 5^th, 2014 at 10:43pm:



I think it would have to do with what server you were on. Our little guild rolled toons on other servers at the start, amassed cheap priced credd and traded cross server. Our home world, orias, cx/ah was quite busy the first month, but crashed recently. There is just so little volume anymore on some worlds. This is compounded by the fact the AH listing time is a mindboggling 2 days.

What I don't understand is how carbine did not have an economist on staff like eve did with their plex foray. macro'ing cooking nets a rediculous amount of afk plat. Simply harvesting wood for 1 hour and selling everything to a vendor was netting 3.5 plat per hour.

I know so many folks that have silly amounts of credd. If your core regulars don't have to pay a sub, it kinda breaks your model going forwards. Sure someone did have to buy that credd, but that was recorded on past quarterly reports.


EDIT: what server are you on btw, I do realize there can be a huge ymmv in wildstar.

Hey guys.

Would any kind soul PM me with a NA/EU WildStar guest pass? I'm interested in the game but I wanna try it out before buying the full version.

Thanks.

The last one worked, thanks Strake.

Sasha wrote on Jan 11^th, 2015 at 3:36pm:


They never optimized the game for amd cpu's. sadly, even if you have top of the line 5000usd$ amd based system it will run like shit.

The biggest post on their forums has been and still is about optimizing for amd cpu's... from beta. Not sure how many folks trying wildstar use amd vice intel, but I would surmise they lost 40% of their potential playerbase just from that one issue.

Strakeln wrote on Jan 12^th, 2015 at 12:27pm:


Yeah. You set Turbine on a pedestal almost as high as the one you've set for Cordovan.

Strakeln wrote on Jan 12^th, 2015 at 12:27pm:


I'm baffled as to what you found refreshing about Wildstar. To me it was the definition of a generic shitty MMO.