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I noticed! :lol:


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d'awww!!! *hugs the happy baby until it squeaks!* Tornadoes scar the bejebus out of me! I'll take a hurricane any day of the week over a tornado! I have actually never seen a tornado but we do get water spouts but they are easily avoided.

YAY!! I'm glad you are better!!

I'm kinda in the same boat on the population issue. I won't unsub or anything but I am not playing much at all right now. I'm hopeful for the megaserver merge so I guess I'm just biding my time. I love Wildstar and adore the people I have met here on Morning coffee and in our guild! So I'm not ready to give up yet :)


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Just don't be like that doc in...Texas?....that missed it entirely :)


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The part that bothers me is when they're talking about F2P. And they say, "Well, we're not set up for F2P, but we listen to our players..." And I look over at the threads where people are saying, "It won't be THAT bad..." This is why people need to say what they don't like, why they don't like it, and what alternatives they'd rather have. Because if this game goes F2P, it's going to be because a lot of people saved their vitriol for the game and not for the payment method that incentivizes Carbine to actually make it better for everyone. I'm worrying more and more that everything I do in this game will be for naught, because if it goes F2P, it's as good as dead. I was thinking that while I was working on the Shadowcaster last night. Just thinking how nice it would be when the decor limit is popped, the megaservers are in, the housing changes are in place, and we throw some parties on the deck. .... unless it goes F2P before then. One of the saddest moments of hopelessness in this game, just because I know that, in an instant, this could all be dust in the wind.


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 * waves hello to all the busy coffee people*

Pretty much this please. The article itself (thank you for linking it Brave) was a good read and I felt a much appreciated recap of the direction they are taking. On Wildstar news, my Dominion Engineer is finally 30 (new PvP level group now, I am going to be turned into breakfast toast.. :P). I am looking forward to some of the heavy armor designs (level 32+) available, so leveling cannot come fast enough. :) Half way towards the weekend already!


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I'll put it this way. Right now, we get everything for being subscribed. Access to everything equally across the board. There is no content made that we cannot experience, no costume pieces we cannot have, any of that. No expansions to buy every few months. Everything in this game, after the box purchase, comes to us for 15 dollars a month. Every single hour of dev time is meant for all of us. There is no way a game goes F2P and does that. It's impossible. The money literally comes from reserving content developed by the dev time we were paying 15 dollars a month each for (unless someone paid 20 for our CREDD) and gives us a "discount" to pay for more. Every single thing around F2P is a smokescreen that tries to convince people that they haven't made the game either more expensive or less complete. That money gets made up somewhere, and it's usually on people like me who want things, but were perfectly fine when we were paying 15 dollars a month to have it all. Now, there are fair things they could do to boost revenue. I'm on record for bringing up ways for unintrusive product placement to supplement income. I'm on record saying I wouldn't mind a cash shop if that cash shop sold the items given to us monthly for subscribing (since, at that point, subscribers still get access to everything they were subbed in for and are, in a way, retroactively paying subs for months they weren't here). I'm all for giving subscribers incentives to get more people into the game that will permanently lower their subscription (because ensureing someone else buys in and pays for a few months is worth money off their sub for the lifetime of their account, IMO). I'm also for killing the box price and charging on the sub alone, if it needs to remove a barrier to play. But F2P is a lie. Other people might not realize it, other people might know it but not have a problem with wherever the extra money comes from. That's fine. I'm not either one of those kinds of people. I really don't want to play a game, much less continue paying a subscription to one, that is constantly taking things they made and tucking them away to ask me for more money. I'm also on record saying that, if NCSoft came out tomorrow and said this game wasn't going F2P unless it goes totally upside down before at least November 3rd 2015, I'd pay my sub forward for a year. I have total faith in Carbine and I love the game. It's NCSoft I have no intrinsic faith in, and a lot of past history to distrust them.


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Gazz has link for chua, Yes? Sorry if not!


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Gazz not fastest on forums :(


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RPers just weren't a large enough segment of the population. To be fair, I kind of get that. It wasn't good for us, obviously. It's never good news to lose your server type. However, if they actually included some kind of RP phasing (so we're not spread out over five or six Thayds or annoying the non-RPers) I would say it works better for them in the long run to not have a separate server. It's one less server to maintain as a separate entity. I get that. Kind of hoping we get RP phasing of some kind to give us a sort of place we can go to meet and greet in the open world without the hassle of figuring out who to sync to for the party, but that's utterly meaningless until they get other elements in the game fixed. It's not a top priority. Once we know we're not going to F2P Hell or cancelled, when people return or we get more people to play, we can start worrying about that kind of thing. Right now, I'm just hoping the game survives long enough to expand again.


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