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Death of a Game: Wildstar
gunklacker
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read Sam Noone comments, it was quiet informative..
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Everyone seems they think they are developers now.This game as even Trion's Rift was just a corner cutting budget game.I can't go back as far as Wow because although i feel a weak design,it was nearly as robust as other top end rpg's.It started i assume after Wow's success,the market saw there was actually a lot of money to be made there.
Sadly the majority only understand single player game design and couldn't make a proper mmo if their life depended on it.WS is one of those games,the typical linear/hand holding markers,single player design.
Now the problem i saw with the game and this argues a point i often hear as being a plus is the graphics were bad.Everytime someone wants to defend THEIR supposed beloved game,they say stuff like "i like the art style".Well their ignorance on game design just shines through,nobody is saying an art style cannot be good looking,to each their own right,but what i say when i say it looks bad,i mean it looks bad,i am not talking about art style.
My reasoning at the time was that players enjoy their character,they enjoy the looks of their armor/gear,their house,people are just into making things look nice even if they argue with themselves about not caring about looks.In this case ...WS,the graphics and art style lead to the ideas people love looking bad,how can enjoy what you wear or what you build ,if it looks bad?
This follows th same problem i have with all these Baldur's gate looking games,yoru character and objects are so puny,you can barely make out any detail at all.
Know what else crappy low end graphics do,they let the dev off the hook for optimisation,,you don't need to optimise low poly maps/objects and supports their ancient game engines.
I also have to wonder why WS decided to copy FFXIV's combat red carpet idea,that made no sense at all,just more hand holding crap.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I didn't mind it but the basic mechanics were too old fashioned. Being made by ex wow employees isn't really a thing to brag about, it felt like the game was held back by this. Other games like rift, tera, gw2, swtor, eso were all contemporaries and trying different things. I preferred them all except perhaps tera because I hated the combat rooting thing. I didn't hate wildstars red carpet combat but like the video said it did not suit pvp at all.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
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the combat was the best part about this game, not the normal mmo tab and forget shit.
the problem they had was simple: basic misconceptions in creating the system.
they burried themselves with the matrix, otherwise this game would have had a chance with it's f2p, a real one.
and if you think the gfx were bad, you must be kidding. at least i hope so.
the guys came from blizz, they surely knew what they were doing, you on the other hand, seem to have played a game that was never meant for you.
PS: just watched FFXIC combat vid, and that thing is tab target. so what the hell are you talking about?
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Wildstar was a non-stop sprint and you felt like you were missing out/being ineffective if you weren't jumping from POI to POI. If you took the time to whisper you would die in combat. You completed quests with lightning speed and everything was linear, meaning when you did encounter another player it would be inefficient to group up as the odds of you being on the same part of a quest hub were virtually nil and it was always more efficient to just do it solo instead of trying to communicate with someone.
They "out designed" themselves and gave players what they were claiming they wanted without realizing the consequences.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
That is why the game died for you. I have heard several hundred reasons why the game died, everything from raids too hard, to too much hand-holding. All of them valid none of them the "real reason". The best reason is Shit show production crew. No leadership, no clear direction.
Bitter, he may be, but wrong he is not.
If you want a new idea, go read an old book.
In order to be insulted, I must first value your opinion.
I played Wildstar for quite a while, and every major decision they made was bad, and the time it took them to react to issues was too long for most players. I think that is one game that could have used a good reboot, if the engine performance issues were not too hard to fix that is.
Your point about it being more efficient to solo applies to almost every multiplayer game I've tried. Potentially the biggest problem in MMO design.