126075-there-may-be-even-a-little-something-extra-to-follow

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			So....... Maintenance has come and gone, and still waiting for our something special....	
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I doubt we get anything "official" tonight as it is past business hours for most of the PR/Dev team/etc today. But I am sad that they gave the tease, knew that the maint was ending 1700 PST and left us hanging till at least the next day. Besides, it seems players and MMORPG.com figured out without needing an official word.
 
Oh well, here's hoping for tomorrow.	
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			There's no way the steam thing is the surprise. It's too soon.	
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			It's a boombox. Enjoy your flask of minor prestige!	
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I expect and demand Aurin warriors...
NCsoft has deprived me from wishing people good morning and offering a cup of digital coffee! I am outraged and applaud by this act!	
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So....... Maintenance has come and gone, and still waiting for our something special....
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			Little Something Extra or RIOT	
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I think with the internet blowing up with leaks regarding F2P and Steam, Carbine has got their hands full with deciding what to do about that.
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For those not in the know about the "Vibora Bay" thing , information about the zone was released prematurely and was revealed that it was going to be paid expansion content. The CO players turned into a frothing horde almost instantly, given the state of the game at the time was such that there was barely enough content to even get to cap without resorting to pvp or mindless openworld grinding. You had to do -every- single mission in the game, and it still wasn't enough.
 
The notion that players would have to pay... for one zone.... in a game that lacked enough content in its base iteration alone... it was insane. First time I ever saw a decision that completely unified a player base against it. And.. it played out pretty much as Typrop stated above. The community manager that leaked the info disappeared shortly thereafter, more proper information on the zone was released AND a clarification that it was no longer paid content, but would come as a regular update.	
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			bump for curiosity!	
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Well, the log in screen for WildStar changed... for me at least.
 
Is this the surprise?	
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Well, the log in screen for WildStar changed... for me at least.
 
Is this the surprise?
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Yeah! Where is my little something extra!?  I WANT MY LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA!!!!
 	
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what has changed?
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When I clicked on the log in button on the forums, they had adjusted the boxes that you type in your log in information.
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Well from looks of it...the login doesn't seem to be integrated into the same setup as before. Maybe it changed earlier and I didn't notice, but it seems to me that the login no longer routes through the lineage login server or whatever. There's also some graphical adjustments to the login page and the email is structured differently.
 
Also just as a heads up to cwarbine the verification codes don't seem to work. I'm only able to post because I logged in through the main site then switched over to the forums...	
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			We building hype for a small surprise...at this rate it better be time travel	
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We building hype for a small surprise...at this rate it better be time travel
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I notice that Blade & Soul is on the games list on the NCSoft account page. It now says: Aion, Blade & Soul, Lineage II and WildStar.  GW and GW2 aren't there, but they're on the WildStar main page.
 
Although, maybe it's always been like that and I just noticed now because of the other changes to the page.	
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			Still waiting for some sort of neat "something extra" from Carbine =(	
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			The 'coming to steam' announcement (minus the f2p) part was probably the surprise. 	
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friend of mine linked me the Wildstar online tumblr that has a comment regarding the surprise, and that more details would be on the website soon. A little 'something somethin' for sticking through the downtime.
 
Here. Has a tinyURL http://tinyurl.com/olzpkbn	
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The 'coming to steam' announcement (minus the f2p) part was probably the surprise. 
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The 'coming to steam' announcement (minus the f2p) part was probably the surprise. 
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			so.............................................................................yeah, where we at with this?	
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Soo lets guess what it is....
 
I am saying account side amps/ability points (a man can dream)	
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			Patience? You want me to have patience? Yea ok fair enough	
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			http://wildstaronline.tumblr.com/post/118959150721/so-how-about-that-special-surprise-you-hinted-at	
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My guesses are...
 
every current subscriber gets 1+ of those RNG boxes that came from purchasing a box...
more boomboxes...
Current subs get access to the Master X master beta and get to play as korean Mondo...
They're merging NA and EU together
Timetraveler actually figured out how to time travel
Pappy had a baby and named them after an NPC	
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Patience? You want me to have patience? Yea ok fair enough
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			*gasp* what if we're finally getting fishing!?	
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			i still want to know whats the surprise, you dont do this to the people carbine, you dont tell em you have a surprise and then stay quiet, the waiting its killing me if you see a mount of skulls of lopps ingame it was me, YOU PUSHED ME TO THAT CARBINE, YOU PUSHED ME!!!	
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 :( Was expecting something "shortly" after they brought stuff back online...oh well...	
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i still want to know whats the surprise, you dont do this to the people carbine, you dont tell em you have a surprise and then stay quiet, the waiting its killing me if you see a mount of skulls of lopps ingame it was me, YOU PUSHED ME TO THAT CARBINE, YOU PUSHED ME!!!
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WHAT IF THE SURPRISE
 
IS A LIFTY MOUNT	
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Well, at this point I'm going to guess it's not boom boxes, right? Can't think of a good reason they'd delay this long for that.
 
I'm sticking with anniversary stuff. We're not that far off from the date and this might just be an announcement for whatever they've got coming anyway.	
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			It's been 46 hours since the maintenance ended (and 44 since I made this post). At what point does it stop being "to follow"? I mean, for me, if you're gonna tease something to follow a downtime, I'd expect it within 24 hours of that downtime. Not 2 full days (or more....) later.	
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			I think Carbine may be a tad confused again. It's UNDERpromise and OVERdeliver.	
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It's been 46 hours since the maintenance ended (and 44 since I made this post). At what point does it stop being "to follow"? I mean, for me, if you're gonna tease something to follow a downtime, I'd expect it within 24 hours of that downtime. Not 2 full days (or more....) later.
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I'd cut them some slack. With a delay like this, I'm going to venture that something didn't quite lock in to place in their systems and they've been stuck working trying to get whatever problems that cropped up resolved.
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Actually the problem is it was boom boxes. Then when everyone started joking that it would probably be boom boxes Carbine was all "HAHA yeah guys who would give out such a crappy gift amirite??" *turns away sadly*
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Day four
 
General Carbine havent given us any hints about the special gift... people are now acting strange... even saw a lopp with a hat carrying a dead mordesh body... the guys in the forums are making a something ritualish stuff involving gigantic f2p and b2p threads, it seems like a cult, only time will tell.
 
One of the forum regulars has gone mad writing boomboxes in every wall of the camp. with his blood. i only expect to end like the mordesh and not like the bloody writer.
 
Some other start presenting grandiosity deliriums, proclaming himself as the savior or like someone of the suspect to be cult called him "the leak(d)er", i dont understand the  stuff behind that tittle but prefer not to make questions cause i know the morale is low and that fake or real tittle is giving them something im slowly losing. But the low morale its caused by some reports from the front sent by ncsoft, those indicate that we are almost losing the war against the strain and if we dont do anything nexus will transform into a wasteland, a purple wasteland.
 
i  even couldnt imagine we were losing the war, i saw so many new faces in this part of the front and so many eager nexians to fight, even our weapons and technology got better and just a few days before it was like we were an unstoppable force. The last days were crowded at the boot camp, even we played games at night, games that we hadnt touched since we started the war because of the lack of people.
 
Seems like the low morale of the veterans is now spreading to the new recruits. the old ones here talk about leaving without looking behind, and prevent anyone from going into this war, but i think  we are losing because they are preventing us to get reinforcements, and the bad mouth to mouth is spreading quicker than the strain. Have to watch them closely and dont let em influence the new recruits.
 
i dont even know why am i fighting anymore, all the horizon seems dark and the madness taking the souls of my battle partners isnt helping, we need good news and we need it now or even myself will lose all hope...at this moment i feel it has started.
 
Maybe the news will arrive soon and save me, but maybe not.	
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Actually the problem is it was boom boxes. Then when everyone started joking that it would probably be boom boxes Carbine was all "HAHA yeah guys who would give out such a crappy gift amirite??" *turns away sadly*
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Thanks, Carbine! The thing was awesome - and such a fitting reward for a little downtime! 
 
You guys are the best!	
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Thanks, Carbine! The thing was awesome - and such a fitting reward for a little downtime! 
 
You guys are the best!
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			still no surprise :(	
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			They're likely still working.  It feels like they really dropped a wrench in the gearhouse with this last maintenance.	
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Maybe they drank too much coffee during the maintenence and are now suffering from severe...
 
 
 
 
 
 
incontinence
>.>
<.<
 
(im sorry...not really....)	
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			The surprise will be contract credit for all of the Star Comm basin events people completed!	
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			i hope all this work they are putting on servers and all that stuff its related to increase capacity and make a better experience when there is too much people on one spot on open world, that really would be a gift and be appreciated	
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			Weird. Post moved while I typed it ...  :huh:	
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Weird. Post moved while I typed it ...  :huh:
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			It's in the F2P Mega Thread now, where I intended it. :D Sorry.	
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Hmmm... waiting...
 
Will the surprise be a CASH SHOP?
 
STAY TUNED AND FIND OUT!
 
CUPCAKE!	
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Carbine, PR area:
 	
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Here it is. :)
 
I love it!	
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Pumera pet. That is all.
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Pumera pet(*). That is all.
 
(*) It's a Mondo Zax creation, so it might be quite homicidal. Keep it on a leash. Preferably on a leash attached to an anchor you are about to drop over the side of a boat above that 10 miles deep ocean trench.	
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			I accept this offering.	
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I'm happy they have everything back in place.
 
A bit concerned that this was announced to FB before the forums/front page.  o_O	
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hey, it could have been a boom box  B)
 
but seriously, I love the pumera pet. makes me a happy camper today
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Heh. :) I meant the "that is all" as a sign off, not a "that's all we get" complaint.
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			YAY! Can't wait to log in and claim it!	
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			omg ill hug it until it explodes as almost all chua inventions	
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works for me........what wait......we don't get a Chua ?    :D	
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Chua gladly accept offering	
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Chua gladly accept offering
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Chua gladly accept offering
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Dammit Olivar, put some pants on.
 
 
... again.
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Nice, and gladly accepted! :)
You're absolutely, 100 percent sure though that this is not a Boom Box 2.0 ("now with literally boom!™") of sorts? I mean it comes from the Zax, with love. Can't be the only one who's sliiiightly nervous about that.	
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What? What? WHAT?!?!
 
 
This thing is huge! I was told it was supposed to be a "little" something and THIS is the monstrosity we're handed?!?!
 
GG CARBINE!!!
 	
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Dammit Olivar, put some pants on.
 
 
... again.
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I approve of this, I prob will never use it because I hate pets (eng bots are annoying enough), but I do approve ^_^
			
				
	Edited May 19, 2015 by BusterCasey	
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			...I see a flood of Aurin headed to veterinary clinics across Nexus, trying to save the poor pumera from whatever it is that Mondo did to their heads.  :D	
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...I see a flood of Aurin headed to veterinary clinics across Nexus, trying to save the poor pumera from whatever it is that Mondo did to their heads.  :D
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So....... Maintenance has come and gone, and still waiting for our something special....
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Confirmed by Yasfan: Next pet : Augmented Aurin !
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NEVER!
 
 
It's an old one though, Oli now has yellow-honey eyes.
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Nice, and gladly accepted! :)
You're absolutely, 100 percent sure though that this is not a Boom Box 2.0 ("now with literally boom!™") of sorts? I mean it comes from the Zax, with love. Can't be the only one who's sliiiightly nervous about that.
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Hummmm ... needs more... studying...
 	
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			I'm not complaining.  I'm wondering why this was only communicated to social media, and not any official game channels such as the forums or the website or a dev tracker or something other than facebook. 
			
				
	Edited May 19, 2015 by BusterCasey	
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			Huh? The facebook announcement was just a link to the blog post on WS's official page. That's definitely an official game channel. >_>	
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Huh? The facebook announcement was just a link to the blog post on WS's official page. That's definitely an official game channel. >_>
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			But this is where they've posted pretty much all their major announcements for a while.	
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Quite a suprise when i opened up Wildstar and got that pet in my inventory. Still, i jsut got Lucent as a pet (I be calling him that).
Still qutie a very nice suprise right there though :3	
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Every minute the pumera does a roll on whether it will attack its owner or a party member, with a base chance of 50%. For one in ten rolls, pumera will kill the target. All attack chances doubled for aurin. This pet will summon itself at random in dungeons and raids.
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			For any aurin naysayers, pumera were probably on verge of dieing. Mondo saved them and sent them to everyone for free! Mondo friendly! Should do more of this in winter to convince all haters.	
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I'm not complaining.  I'm wondering why this was only communicated to social media, and not any official game channels such as the forums or the website or a dev tracker or something other than facebook. 
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			I don't look at W* on Facebook because there's usually scores of comments on 'F2P DEAD GAME' after each post. It gets a little tiring.	
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I don't look at W* on Facebook because there's usually scores of comments on 'F2P DEAD GAME' after each post. It gets a little tiring.
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