131703-will-players-be-coming-back-when-f2p-hits

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			I have just recently bought the game 2 days ago for the first time and i enjoy it very much. The gamplay is what im looking for in a mmorpg and reminds me a little of tera. But as i have been logging some hours in lately i noticed the server is pretty much empty. I try to join guilds when i play mmorpgs so i dont get bored or lonely but i feel in wildstar im talking to myself. Even more so I'm a big pvper and i noticed there is pretty much no pvp at all im only lvl 10 so maybe i have to grind quietly to 50 before i get to play pvp but im not big on questing. So what i want to know is will wildstar be reborn when F2P hits or will it not be able to revive. I will be a little disappointed if it does not boom after F2P.	
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If you're on the current PVP server, it has been pretty much totally abandoned at this point. All the PVP happens on the PVE server.
 
As for what the transition will bring? Who knows. We all *hope* that new players go streaming in to both servers, but honestly, the Wildstar PVP servers have such a bad reputation as ghost towns that it may or may not change. Most players tend to follow the crowd, and as it stands now, everyone left playing consolidated on the PVE servers. 
 
If you just started, come over to the PVE server for now. 	
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			What's more, most PvP is done at the higher levels. You won't see much, if any, PvP matches untill you are level 50. The exception is when some guilds actively organize themselves to put together low level PvP groups. But that's so rare you shouldn't count on it.	
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			i did switch over to the PvE server and i do see a FEW more people but no ques on pvp. I guess ill have to grind some quests im just hoping wildstar kicks back up like tera did. Tera was dying when u need to pay a sub but when it hit F2P it boomed big time and is still booming. I love everything i have experienced so far i just want a community to interact with. I guess only time will tell.	
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			Problem for my gaming meta-org is still the region lock.  We're split in interest about 50-50 between NA and EU.  Result will likely be that our Wildstar Division will not survive, although it will probably re-start briefly.  If it were possible to combine numbers, WS might retain our people.	
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Problem for my gaming meta-org is still the region lock.  We're split in interest about 50-50 between NA and EU.  Result will likely be that our Wildstar Division will not survive, although it will probably re-start briefly.  If it were possible to combine numbers, WS might retain our people.
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			Holy moo.  If you can get any details or if you mean a post in this forum, I would love to hear the skinny (link?).  I don't want to tell my org that it's possible until I have some clue as to how.
			
				
	Edited September 14, 2015 by Gamezilla	
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Holy moo.  If you can get any details or if you mean a post in this forum, I would love to hear the skinny (link?).  I don't want to tell my org that it's possible until I have some clue as to how.
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I dropped them a line: short answer is that you can transfer to a diff region but everything applied to your original account and all characters are lost.
 
Soooo, I really doubt that any of us feel like doing that. ;)  But thanks for the responses.	
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I dropped them a line: short answer is that you can transfer to a diff region but everything applied to your original account and all characters are lost.
 
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	*****WILL PLAYERS BE COMING BACK WHEN F2P HITS?****
 
 
That really is the million dollar question. No one really knows.	
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			Well It bought me back into the game. Not just because of the free to play, but being able to play, during the first release I just couldnt do anything in the game, and after waiting two months I had given up. Now it is stable and playable for me.	
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			I hope so because I'm certainly seeing no signs of many new comers on EU Dominion at the moment.	
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			I hope they do come to the pvp server. Warhound needs it, And I need warhound.	
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			ehhhhh i have looked far and wide for a new MMO to play, and honestly this is the only one that had piqued my interest.  Granted, i'm only a level 5 Exile, but i do see a few people here and there bouncing about.  Honestly after all the looking at other games and investigating the lore, Wildstar really looks freaking awesome.  I hope beyond hope that it starts to thrive.	
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To be honest with you i am not sure , i tried to level my Dommy character up and leveling has been dumbed down a lot (I dont have to interrupt anymore and can stay in bad XD)Its also boring still takes a lot of of time to level and it will probably be even more slower for a new player
 
We will probably get a small bump to our playerbase and that's about it	
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			I dunno, I'm thinking about it.	
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I'm sure there will be some players coming back, especially as some mmo streamers will pick up Wildstar to see the "changes". Which will hold maybe 1-2 days and then it's back to normal.
With other games coming out in the next few months (Blade&Souls for example), even a switch to f2p is no guarantee.
Especially since Carbine currently runs at 40 devs tops and they are all spread to other games from ncsoft (aion, lineage, guild wars...) as this is the only way Carbine is still alive.
Wildstar does not get much love from ncsoft in form of man power and development time.
Don't expect much new content in the next 6-12 months, which will make every new player leave after they hit the cap. Hell, they even needed nearly a year for the f2p changes, which aren't that big development wise.
Even all the support is routed directly through ncsoft these days.
I don't see much of a future, besides some casual players who waste hundreds of hours in housing and such.
			
				
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If you're on the current PVP server, it has been pretty much totally abandoned at this point. All the PVP happens on the PVE server.
 
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Do you mean PvP queues? Does that mean dungeon and arena/battleground queues don't apply to both servers?
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			 F2p will pick up new players.. how many is the big question. A lot of players are waiting on the transition before picking up the game full time again to.. so you can say its a calm before the storm..	
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Judging by the /who I have been doing lately on the PTR and on Warhound I would say we are in for a pleasant surge of players on launch of F2P... Warhounds population seems to be at its strongest around 9-11pm central time lately but even early its been about double what it normally is and the numbers keep going up the closer F2P gets. Warhound still has a much lower population than enTITY though.
 
And since the game is free to download and play after Sept. 29th its probably only going to spread like wild fire if people spread the word on social media especially.
 
(get it??? wildstar/wild fire...:D)
 
If you have been wanting to do some OWPvP I'd say now is definitely time to go back to Warhound or join Warhound if you are a new player. Be a part of history, be a part of the Warhound REBOUND! :D	
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I'm sure there will be some players coming back, especially as some mmo streamers will pick up Wildstar to see the "changes". Which will hold maybe 1-2 days and then it's back to normal.
With other games coming out in the next few months (Blade&Souls for example), even a switch to f2p is no guarantee.
Especially since Carbine currently runs at 40 devs tops and they are all spread to other games from ncsoft (aion, lineage, guild wars...) as this is the only way Carbine is still alive.
Wildstar does not get much love from ncsoft in form of man power and development time.
Don't expect much new content in the next 6-12 months, which will make every new player leave after they hit the cap. Hell, they even needed nearly a year for the f2p changes, which aren't that big development wise.
Even all the support is routed directly through ncsoft these days.
I don't see much of a future, besides some casual players who waste hundreds of hours in housing and such.
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