NCsoft Sale by IP – Q2 2017 – No WildStar mentionedĪnd so the death watch began. In the mean time its low revenue numbers stood out every three months in the NCsoft quarterly reports, until NCsoft stopped listing the game at all in in its reports. Likewise, it jumped on to the Steam bandwagon looking for more players, only to find little help and mixed reviews on that front. It got an initial boost, but soon sagged.
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Neither made it a full twelve months before they had to conform to the reality of the market.īut, while The Elder Scrolls Online went on to adapt and even thrive, the same could not be said for WildStar.
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WildStar held out until May of the same year before announcing a free to play option. The Elder Scrolls Online blinked first and announced the end of mandatory subscriptions in January of 2015. WildStar went live in June of 2014 while The Elder Scrolls Online was up and running in April of the same year, and before too long it became a coin toss as to which would have to go free to play first. The Elder Scrolls Online didn’t want to pollute their game with the necessary evils that come with free to play and WildStar thought they had an out in their PLEX-like CREDD idea. Carbine Studios itself, founded back in 2005 by former Blizzard employees who had worked on World of Warcraft, was shut down back in September.īack in 2013 it was WildStar and The Elder Scrolls Online who were going to buck the free to play trend as both pledged to make MMORPGs that were able to sustain the monthly subscription model. Launched in June of 2014, it ran for nearly four and a half years. By the time the actual closing date comes much of the emotion has run its course.Īnd so we say good-bye to WildStar today. The announcement of a game closing seems to be the point of reflection, the time for shock and acceptance, gloating and regret, nostalgia and dismissal. That post includes links out to many others doing the same. Many a City of Heroes fan still laments that the game was making money when it was closed.īack when the announcement came I wrote a post that summed up the lift of the game, from the idealistic foundation to the harsh realities of the MMO market through to the seemingly inevitable demise. The surprise wasn’t so much that it would shut down but that it lasted as long as it did, given how keen NCsoft has been in the past to terminate titles.
The news came back in September that WildStar would be shutting down.
Today is the day that WildStar faces the inevitable end and goes dark.
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