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[General Article] WildStar: Revenue Model Revealed
BillMurphy
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One question that arises over and over when it comes to WildStar is whether or not it will be free-to-play or subscription or hybrid. In a world exclusive first, we reveal the subscription model for one of the year's most anticipated titles. Read on!
WildStar Online will not be Free-to-Play. It won’t be Buy-to-Play like Guild Wars 2, either. What does that leave, boys and girls? That’s right, you heard it here first: WildStar will operate via the classic subscription model, with a tasty EVE-like caveat Carbine is calling CREDD. Last week we caught up with Jeremy Gaffney to chat about the revenue model for WildStar and why Carbine is betting on the subscription model over the new hotness of F2P and microtransactions.
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I'm happy for those who prefer this model. I'll stick with B2P, though.
Looks like it's gonna be an amazing game, regardless
Love what they're doing with housing.
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I have to agree with Vorch, subscription games are obsolete.. idc if you can grind and buy time with in game gold.. still have to pay a sub... time/money.. Ill stick with my f2p/b2p games... too many good games out there that dont require a sub, to mess with one that has a sub.. plain and simple.
“We’re not watching the competition too closely at all, really.” Why? “Because business model does have an impact, but in general good games do well. And we know what we have is good and worth that value. But more importantly, the elder game needs to be there, all the content needs to be there, the features list needs to be full. If we have those things, and we do, we’ll be fine.”
That quote makes me think they might actually get it. I will be paying close attention to this game now even though I didn't care for the leaked footage.
I've said it before, and i'll say it again. If World of Warcraft would be more successful on the "F2P" or "B2P" system it would move to those systems. Blizzard KNOWS how the game is played. Well done, high quality, products do NOT go into the F2P or B2P markets, you just don't make the same returns as P2P and you keep undesirables out.
Good on you WildStar, although you're a WoW clone I'm slightly more tempted to try you now.
....slightly
Interesting. I must say I still don't see the target audience of this game. People who want a WoW-that's-not-WoW? Is there enough of them? Personally, I attribute WoW's decline in subs to people getting tired of the whole model, not the game itself.
I thought they were going to make a sub-free WoW with some nice additional features, but I guess not. Maybe I'm just not interested in the whole "quest to endgame and raid" model and don't understand what the people who are want, but... eh. Right now FFXIV seems to be a better choice for group-focused content, unless you're someone who loves raiding.
This!
Finally, just like FFXIV, a game again where I can just pay a single fee each month and have FULL Access to the game, without a Cash Shop being shoved up in my face every time I turn a corner in the game.
The target audience are people who played Vanilla and Burning Crusade, people who had to manage their mana, who used CC and discussed every trash mob group in heroic dungeons. The kind of players who crave a challenge, not accessibility.
I find it funny that people are elated that they can avoid a cash shop (with its vanity items, oh noes!) but then gladly drop a 60$ bomb on a videogame plus a sub.
Exactly... dont forget SWTOR, Age Of Conan..
Well, apparently wildstar has none of that. so....
Their official stance is "we want people that are not currently playing an mmo or are new to the genre"
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To be honest I'm glad another new game is going subscription. I'd rather play a game where everyone pays the same amount of money without any sort of advantages if you pay extra, like exp boosts or any boost for that matter, extra inventory space, etc. All those are pseudo P2W things that tend to lay in the grey area where we can't decide if it's really P2W or not, and I don't like it.
I hope Wildstar does well with this kind of model, if they keep their word I'll probably buy the game, since I'm interested on fair games where the important thing is playing the game and not the cash shop.
Im liking it. Thats what I wanted to hear. As long as I get full access to everything for my sub , they can have my money.
As for people going on about F2P, I really dont undestand why some people expect to get a game thats cost $100m to make for nothing. Carbine are in business to make money not give away.