126076-wildstar-is-going-to-a-hybrid-free-to-play-model-in-august-what-are-your-thoughts

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The W-2? Yeah, that proves he was/is an employee but there's nothing in there that details an actual conversion or anything. I mean I get he's an inside source, but I worked at ArenaNet for a year and I could easily say that their next patch will be nothing but inflatable clown balloons and Logan Thackeray getting shot out of a cannon aimed at Mordremoth's butt -- doesn't make it true. (I swear to god if someone actually believes that...) (... also I'd pay to see that last part.) EDIT:  I'll believe an official announcement. That's what I'm getting at here.


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I wouldn't say definite but strongly suggests that he is legitimate ...... and fired if Carbine works out who it is.


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Well, there's this: The designated Copyright Agent for Carbine is: ________________ General Counsel NC Interactive, LLC 3180 139th Ave SE Suite 500 Bellevue, Washington Telephone: (206) 588-7200 E-mail: legal@ncsoft.com And as Vince Blood has pointed out, Arena Net also has the same address. Odds are, it's the office where the paychecks come from, not the office the poster is working out of.

Yeahhhh. OK.


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DC universe online is f2p and had a lot content released since going to f2p. It got 16 new raids, 6 new powers, 8 duos, 14 new alerts, 5 new solos, few new zones and some other stuff.


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If he's right, then it means no one new plays the game for the next three months. Which then makes it difficult for me to replace folks on my raid team who decide to quit over the changed. If it is going F2P, I'd prefer that info not be leaked until it's ready to happen. He sure isn't doing me any favors and I'm not thankful.


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Three months is certainly too early, and certainly during a time of influx of people into the game is bad timing. It's like shutting off the faucet. Who is going to pay for a game they can get for free just by waiting? One month and people can just ride out their subs and decide what to do next.


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I'm pretty chill. I honestly am fine if it's true or it's not. I saw the financials, if they have to change, they have to change. I may not like it, but I'll live. But people coming in acting like they are doing the community a favor by blowing the lid on it frustrates me. It's not like the game going F2P is some Watergate scandal and the "public has a right to know". This isn't a matter of Carbine having done something that needs public attention and rebuke. It's a hard transition to make, and if they are making it it's GOT to be hard on the employees at Carbine who are trying to make this work. Someone coming up and stirring the pot even more is making the whole situation more difficult than it needs to be, and the ones who will suffer the most are the dedicated Carbine employees who have stuck with this game, are still there, and working their butts off to keep the game afloat.


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If you are out in California with its high cost of living and only making 40k a year as a programmer then you are doing it wrong.

To provide another anecdote showing that this isn't unheard of, I just checked my W-2. I work at a site in the mid-west, but my company's main office is in Texas, and the Texas address was listed on the W-2.

Obligatory XKCD.

Silence from the devs, especially on such a short time scale, is proof of nothing.


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What discussion? People arguing back and forth about whether a guy is a real employee or whether F2P is happening or not? In all honesty, this is not some productive discussion that is benefiting the community. It is the same, inevitable thread that happens on every game's forum before the official F2P announcement is made. Also, see my last post. If this were not true, this thread would be costing Carbine money. It would be in their benefit to deny the rumor and close the thread. But the mods have been told to stand down and just not lie to anyone.


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Hardly a mention worthy prediction looking at how every mmo has progressed, it's much harder to predict which mmo will remain with a P2P exclusive payment model then the other way around ;)


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In all fairness, I was also kind of wrong in a later post: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/44527-p2p-or-f2p/?p=432837 Whether the game has "tanked" is obviously an opinion, but my point at the time was that F2P would happen not because the game was doing poorly, but because F2P would simply make more money. And I think the recent financial reports are pretty clear the game is not doing...well. So, full disclosure on my past posts =P


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No, yasfan, we are at the stage where people argue about who called it first. I guess there is an achievement for that?


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GW2 also makes regular content updates with their living story. As long as you play through them while they are live they're free. If you miss the window you can unlock the content with gems. It gives people incentive to keep logging in (and by extension be exposed to the gem store more often, mini golden piglet hell yeah). It also gives people a reason to break out their wallets if they miss an episode, or convert their game currency into gems.


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