It’s videos like this that make me want to play WildStar again.
And then it’s announcements like this that remind me that this game should have changed it’s business model about a year ago. Which is prior to launch. Everybody knew there was no more room for a sub based game into today’s climate.
I’ll go back and play it when they get to fixing the payment model, which feels like soon. However, there is a concerning thing here – the last numbers I could find on COH had it under 3M a quarter before it was shuttered. Â Could WildStar face that fate instead?
I have written quite a bit about WildStar. I was one of those with high hopes for it. It came really close but fell short for me as a Dominion player who couldn’t find a guild or people to play with.
The only other thing stopping me from paying a subscription to WildStar (yes, I said the *S* word) is that I am now firmly in the camp of one character, many roles. (FF / TSW / GW2 / Etc.) Even watching that video I was thinking I would go back and play my Stalker! No, my Engineer! No, my Medic! No my.. dammit.. I didn’t settle in on one character class. I ended up playing the beginning planets 6 times looking to find my groove. I think that style of character progression now works best for me as I can play one character and get enjoyment of the full game, instead of running alts. I don’t have time for alts.
So there it is. I hope to be back on Nexus someday.
Unless it ends up getting the CoH treatment from NCSoft. I just don’t believe they have recouped their investment yet, but I can’t see how 2M a quarter even covers salary for a game with major updates being released.
Sorry for the GIFS. I wrote this end of day for me and my mind was feeling mushy.
I highly doubt they’d shutter it this quickly. I imagine there would be other publishers interesting to at least pick it up on the cheap and keep it going. It is a solid enough game that F2P and an expansion could easily revive it to something more worthwhile.