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Do you think a payment model change would help WS population?
I don't want to turn this is to a P2P or F2P war, but at what point do you think Carbine will cave in, or if not at all?
I honestly believe a good B2P model would do this game wonders population wise, and from reading forums and news it could use a great pop boost, especially on the PvP servers.
I hate to see this game go by the wayside, but I think something needs to be done to get new and returning players back into the game.
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It will only help short term it will not fix the core problems. I have over a dozen friends who rushed to Wildstar for 40 man raids and realized that their love was just nostalgia talking and getting 20 to 40 people together on the same page is a real pain in the ass and will never happen again like it happened in Vanilla WOW. Vanilla WOW was great it was a time where people were willing to put a side personal goals for group goals at least to some level. Today that just does not happen and never will again. So that is wilstar is in the rut its in. Bad design flaws based on nostalgia.
Also I know a lot of people who just will not do Action combat and didnt like it. Also a lot of my friends who quit, quit very fast when they noticed how bad the grind was. You had to complete 20 man to get to 40. Yea having hard content is ok but a major grind no that hurt Wildstar.
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They don't really want more players, they want more profits. One doesn't always lead to the other.
Wildstar was damaged for a few reasons, WoW upgrading their graphics, developers giving bad messages (the feminist thing was dumb), horrible engine performance during beta and honestly a very weird tex avery art style.
wildstar was a huge gamble and it failed, I can't see anything that can really make it popular. All they can do is try to maximise profits from the base they have.
This game is not for everyone (It is hard, Action combat, Cartoon Graphics, Cost Money ect..) but for me it is the most fun MMO
The population is ok on the PvE server. The main problem is that the Queues don't pop because most people do premades. So when new people come and queue up they feel like no one must be playing. But if you join the global LFG chat channel there are always people forming groups that way.
If they went F2P there would be alot more players I am sure, but the game would not be better for it. The devs are busy trying to make the game better (For which they have done an amazing job). They are not busy trying to figure out how to monetize stuff.
Not every development studio has the resources that Square Enix does to basically overhaul 90% of a game.
Not that you know of. Trust me, every Dev worries about their game's income, since it's directly related to its existence. And to their job security.
You're comparing a hugely successful game to one that by all accounts doesn't seem to be doing well at all.
Yes, a very good game with a loyal player base can afford to remain sub only, all the rest converts sooner or later, or closes up shop entirely.
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I never played it, but from reading the various threads, there were a lot of things people didn't like that weren't money related. At this point, they would probably have to do a combo of pay method and significant changes. They could definitely take a cue from ESO.
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To make B2P work you have to actually be able to sell boxes. I don't see a game with poor reviews and poor word of mouth getting people to shell out for a $60 box just because they dropped the subscription.
Going F2P is really the only way you're getting people who weren't willing to buy a box at launch to give this game a second look.
B2P could have worked if the game had launched B2P but it's too late now.
Even if they did have the resources, not every developer would have the balls to actually admit that the game they created was sub par and overhaul said game. FF XIV ARR could be considered an outlier rather than a norm in terms of how SE handled the game itself.
WS doesnt have sugar daddy to pay the bills. NCSoft isnt going to wait 10 years to break even on a game.
And mandatory sub+cash shop is worse than b2p/f2p.
Agree to the posters above who said Carbine needs to fix the core gameplay problems first.
Otherwise even if a payment model change lured in some new blood, those people would leave quite quickly again.
Just out of sheer curiosity. Would you play it again if they dropped Datascape from a 40 man raid to a 20 man?
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ESO still has console launch to go through. And i guess they numbercrunched its worth to spend some more money because of that.
WS kinda floats in the air.
A change in payment model doesn't make game play better. Also, people are not entitled to cheap games even if you believe B2P is your right.
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To be fair, people were saying that they would go for a money grab after 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months. Guess what, none of that has happened, and after their 2014 Q4 report which was particularly damning, NCSoft still said they had Carbine's back for their payment model and game direction, and that they would further fund a PR campaign when the major flaws were addressed.
Granted, if you didn't like core aspects, then that will not be fixed.
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I'm fairly sure that sooner or later they'll convert. I think they are simply working their asses off at the moment to make the game more appealing for when they do.
TSW also had an incredibly rough launch, and converted sometime later. (Although their problem was the opposite of WS. They hardly sold any boxes and had low population. WS sold lots of copies, but had terrible bad player/sub retention.)
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Which core gameplay problems need fixing? Many issues they had at launch have been addressed.
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How do you explain SWTOR huge success then? It was the laughing stock of the mmorpg gaming community until they did some business changes and made it f2p. You do have to take some of these data sites with a grain of salt. http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2014/10/swtor-revenues-climb-over-100-million-for-2014.html
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