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I think everyone knew this, but calling them 'megaservers' was kind of a way to reduce the negativity of what they actually did and that was reducing all servers in to 1 PvE and 1 PvP.


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Cougar is a good guy, but he was also crowing pre-launch about how awesome the launch servers were and how they were so much more robust than servers used in other games and they'd be able to hold so many more players than experienced before. I'm positive tweaks were done and hardware and software were improved, but it was your standard, garden variety server merge with "MEGSERVER" camouflage. They only had enough players to spin up the four servers, then promptly took two behind the shed and shot them. Though it's kinda cool to me when I log onto Entity during prime time and see half a dozen people in leveling zones and maybe a couple hundred in Thayd and I think to myself "This is absolutely everyone in North America playing Wildstar right now". Wildstar doesn't need millions to play, but thousands might be nice.


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You mean trolls like these? https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/123338-banning/ As for successful, that is quite easy for NCsoft just look at this all their games listed there are F2P or B2P except Wildstar. http://i.imgur.com/ZPDKW2t.png So in NCsoft case the Subscription doesn't seem to be working for Wildstar and I can't name any successful p2p MMO franchise beside WoW, Final Fantasy and EvE It's interesting to note that B&S saw a profit increase, i wish they showed region because they went F2P in Japan 3 months ago


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Aye, I didn't twig the crucial (obvious) point: the lack of subs! :D


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The axiom in gaming is "Make a good game, they'll come". If every other "3 months and done" crappy MMO out there is bad, what does that make Wildstar? Misunderstood by the masses? moderator edit: content

Edited May 18, 2015 by Chillia


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Almost like... DLCs in a cash shop?


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Hmm, that pretty graph you linked? Where is that from? I clicked the link and didn't see it on that page. Also, that link? It's from a group that says about itself "Founded by veteran games industry researchers, SuperData is the leading provider of market intelligence covering the market for free-to-play gaming, digital console, mobile, PC downloadable, streaming media and eSports." "...leading provider of market intelligence covering the market for free-to-play gaming..." Maybe these guys aren't all that objective?


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Are you saying WildStar is a bad game? o.0 The people you see complaining about it in places outside of the official forums are still using the same kinds of complaints from launch that no longer actually apply, and the vast majority of return posts are people gushing about how awesome and improved WildStar is. The game itself is awesome. Too many people are conditioned by the lie of f2p, though.


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