127662-carbines-q2-plan-was-brilliant

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So...I was just sitting in my chair, reading peoples thoughts on WS going f2p, and I started thinking, and I realized something, Carbines plan for Q22015 was actually incredible, if you do not know what I am talking about, let me expand.
 
Q1 was Awful, only rocking 2M dollars in revenue as we all know.
 
So at somepoint in Q1 the folks over at Carbine/NcSoft had a meeting, and arranged a pretty clever 3 month plan for Wildstar.
 
"Right, Q1 is an utter disaster, but don't worry, I know what to do"
 
and then BOOM, THE PLAN IS MADE
 
April: 
-Mystery box promotion, buy a box from stores and get cool rewards.
 
May:
-Drop 5 comes to pass, with an awesome trailer and some coverage on dem 3rd party sites.
- Free to play announced at the end of the month, excites many and the player appreciation awards entice many people to sub.
 
June:
-The anniversary! People get awesome free items (which we all love) and log in/sub for there cool rewards.
- Player appreciation starts soon, and many people will be subbing for that, and people will want to spend money for loyalty points as well.
 
 
Every month had something to entice people to spend money on the game, whether it be buying a box, resubbing, or buying the game new completely.
 
So I think it's safe to say q2 will be quite a bit higher whan q1 :D
 	
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			I think free to play hype alone would improve q2 over q1, but I get what you're saying. It got me to return to the game and get excited for it. Definitely going to renew my sub and get my bearings once again for the F2P launch.	
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Ahmmm... didn't one of the Carbine devs actually state they were discussing f2p all the way back in November even?
And FYI, a company knows how it's doing income wise way before Q1 reports and such :P	
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Ahmmm... didn't one of the Carbine devs actually state they were discussing f2p all the way back in November even?
And FYI, a company knows how it's doing income wise way before Q1 reports and such :P
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They never said f2p was a thing, they mentioned it like once but never said it was even being considered.
 
And you missed the part where I said "Right, Q1 is an utter disaster" which while poorly worded, was me saying that they were discussing it before the report.
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			To be completely frank, people have been saying "Wow things are improving :D" for like a year now while the game just continues to tank. They are kind of just hanging on for dear life right now. It's all going to depend on their monetization plan. 	
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To be completely frank, people have been saying "Wow things are improving :D" for like a year now while the game just continues to tank. They are kind of just hanging on for dear life right now. It's all going to depend on their monetization plan. 
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To be completely frank, people have been saying "Wow things are improving :D" for like a year now while the game just continues to tank. They are kind of just hanging on for dear life right now. It's all going to depend on their monetization plan. 
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Well, here's the thing. I usually play GW2, and did some WoW or SWTOR on the side depending upon my mood and where I wanted my money to go (as I won't play SWTOR without a subscription).
 
Recently, thanks to the absolute dud that Warlords of Draenor is at level cap, I did some SWTOR for the 12x class story XP to finish off a couple of classes. Bought the Shadows of Revan digital download, and played through the story. It was fun. But I've never been a raider or PvPer in SWTOR, so once I did the story a few times, it was time to shelve it again until, maybe, the next story addition.
 
Then I heard about Wildstar going F2P. I'll admit, I completely forgot about this game. So, I decided to check it out, did the 10 day free trial, lasted about 6 days on it, and then bought myself a copy. Now, I'm subscribed through the entire summer, and will renew from there until F2P hits. Depending upon how the cash shop is done, I'll either keep subbing for the perks, or unsub and just support them through the shop. I never do both a subscription and cash shop support. Not even in WoW or SWTOR. I don't care how much I like a game.
 
I'm absolutely loving Wildstar. Heck no, it isn't perfect, but I haven't found that golden goose of an MMO yet, in 16 years of playing them. Considering I can't play nightly, so have a very casual play-schedule during the week, it'll take me a little while to get some characters to class level 50 and path level 30. But I find this game extremely fun. So much so that unless Empire's Fall for SWTOR is absolutely something can't miss stellar, I don't see myself going back there to continue the story at all this fall.
 
I truly hope Wildstar does enough of a turn around that NCSoft doesn't decide to pull a City of Heroes with it. Whether through a subscription or the eventual cash shop that comes with a F2P-Hybrid model, they're going to continue to get my support.	
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			 I think wildstar will start building up momentum as time goes on..ll agree i think q2 is going to look a lot nicer then q1... 	
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