124486-wildstar-i-like-you

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I've been playing since beta a few months before launch, and I pretty quickly fell in love with this game at that time. It wasn't long til I pre-ordered and enjoyed things like name reserve boss (first Bloodrose in the world! First THE FINAL FRONTIER in the world!). I've been playing since day 1 of pre-launch, and the guild - my wonderful guild that I could not be more proud of - has existed as long as this game has been released. It's now nearing the first year anniversary and I just want to say...
 
Wildstar, I really like you. WoW lost all of my attention back in Spring of last year, I'd been an MMO gamer for over 10 years, most of which were spent on WoW. It's been a long time since I'd really felt passionate about any games. When I learned there would be another 7 months of Siege of Orgrimmar... I decided my money would be better spent elsewhere. And so I chose Wildstar. To this day I have not regretted it. Even during the darker days where things were looking bleak, I did not give up. Seeing so many players return - even people who used to be in my guild 5+ months ago! - makes me so happy. This game deserves it.
 
Carbine, I know you had a rocky start, and there were a lot of issues, but I want you to know... You're getting this game closer and closer to its potential. The foundation for this game is amazing, and what you're building now on top of that foundation has proven to be better and better. Once PvP is where it should be (season 2 please!) I am sure we will see so many folks, and I will gladly dive into competitive PvP when I usually never have.
 
I hope to continue playing this game for years on end, and be with my amazing guild, as well as friends outside of my guild, for at least that amount of time.
 
Cheers to you, Wildstar and Carbine. May we go forward into the future with much prosperity and pixel killing. /raises glass	
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Aye. I loved the game since the very beginning. I know how you feel. I left cause Frontpage left. Then I saw reports of super low activity during the dark times. ( October, November, December ) I came back early February after hearing increases of population after the January drop. ( Drop 4 I think. ) It's a round about way of saying this, but the whole point I am trying to say is:
 
Carbine: I expect a big celebration in game for your first anniversary! I mean it! After all your company went through this first year, you and your players deserve an all out party! Throw yourself a parade carbine! You deserve it!	
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I share a very similar story.
 
Prior to this amazing game, I, too, was a WoW vet. I first heard about Wildstar about a month before release (for which I am exceedingly thankful. I'm certain the wait would have destroyed me lol). The great content draught at the end of MoP drove me to look elsewhere for entertainment.
 
One day, I stumbled upon Wildstar's launch trailer as well as the Flicks. I instantly fell in love with the game's aesthetic (fantastic character design and scenery) as well as the light-hearted (yet surprisingly dark, at times XD) humor.
 
One weekend, I managed to get into the Beta and the rest was history. I preordered the digital deluxe edition, subbed for a few months, then upgraded to annual sub in the fall. I've been logging in almost daily ever since. :P
 
It has been so long since I have enjoyed a game as much as Wildstar. It may have some issues (mostly in the realm of PvP), but, overall, Carbine has a darn good product here. The best in the industry, in my opinion. :) 	
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Man this post really gets me. I had been following Wildstar for about a year before it finally released and, even then I couldn't play. I had talked my wow guildies into getting it but, at the time I still had my macbook pro, so during the great year of ogrimmar I had to watch my guildies play without me. However the difference was, they never really intended to switch, they just wanted something to do between expansions. When I finally got a computer and jumped into the game, I was hooked. I finally left WoW (social commitment made it take longer than I would have liked) and have been solely playing wildstar with no regrets.
 
I've never followed an mmo before and Wildstar, it's just everything I want. And you're right, it's in such a good spot, I want it to succeed so badly, it deserves it.
 
Here's to a bright future for a great game,	
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+1
 
Although there's some fierce debate as to whats best for wildstars future, whether it be B2P/f2p/continued sub/ what have you, in the end, we all love wildstar. It's an amazing game and I will continue to play it for the foreseeable future	
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			I love Wildstar so much I get offended when people smack talk it on other game forums.  I just don't understand how anyone who has actually played Wildstar would choose WoW or Tera, etc over it	
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I've also been playing since launch. We heard about the beta but dismissed it because ESO was our hope to bring back Gaming fun at the time (after many years of WoW and burnout) and didn't think about it at all again til about a week after Launch when a friend begged me to play. I watched the trailers and flicks and fell in love...the deal was sealed when VO guy screamed at my for being Lvl 2!
 
I hope to be playing this game years from now (hopefully with this same, awesome guild and friends!) and we can be like "Remember when people thought WS wasn't gonna make it? Hahahahgigglesnsuch." There's been ups and downs throughout the months. I've seen friends come and go due to various reasons. Been in several guilds, one of which was amazing before I joined TCC and found my true home on Nexus. I've heard the complaints, the "white knights", the doom sayers, all of it. I persist in the hope/belief that ten years from now I'll still be playing this character with these wonderful guildies in this great game.
 
To Evade: I've still got a few WoW guildies I keep in contact with, and every time I refuse their pleas to go back to WoW and become their raid healer once more, it inevitably comes down to "why are you still playing that game? Isnt it dead or something?" Ruffles my feathers every time.	
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			I am also totally in love with Wildstar. Been playing since late Beta, and it just continues to get better and better. 	
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"why are you still playing that game? Isnt it dead or something?"
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I am this guy, who play 3 or 4 aaa mmo's simultaneously (but in casual way, because I have family and work). Yeah, it's possible to like more then 1 mmo ;) . I play WoW, Rift, Wildstar and sometimes SWTOR.
 
And I think, that Wildstar is really very good game. Although its graphics style isn't my favourite, there are many other aspects, that are great in this game and attract me.
 
So I also can say: Wildstar, I like you :)
And I have no doubt, that Wildstar has bright future.
 
Oh, 1 more thing. MUSIC in this game is AMAZING!
 
 
 
 	
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came back 2 days ago after playing beta and the first 3-4 months and I gotta say WildStar is feeling good right now.
The biggest things that made me quit are fixed and I'm pretty happy about the state now.
 
yea, I like you wildstar :>	
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"Oh yeah, it's totally dead.  That's why I still play it."  o_O
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I played WoW for about ten years after playing a slew of other games.  I had been raiding heroics in MoP and clearing all the content they were giving me.  It was a bit harder, but I was getting bored.  I went looking for something, ANYTHING I could play on the side.  I went back to EVE a while and played that for a while, but the forced PVP I felt was just a crutch so that we wouldn't be thrown into a really dangerous environment.  Then, someone told me about FFXIV:ARR.  I dropped in and loved that, and played that for a while, but it was slow and unresponsive.  Nothing felt DANGEROUS.
 
So I was checking my email one day, looking for something that ended up in my junk folder, and saw an open beta invitation from NCSoft for Wildstar.  I'd previously dismissed Wildstar based on people's comments from around the internet (that I trusted), that it was just WoW in space.  I looked at some of the Devspeak videos, though, and decided that wasn't the case.  I decided to give it a shot.  Why not, right?  Free trial periods are good.
 
I've been a devoted convert ever since, trying to extol the virtues of the game to anyone that will listen.  I know there are people who are in my previous position, sitting in games unsatisfied with the difficulty scale and the general trends of MMORPGs.  People who take any negative word said about Wildstar as a sort of reaffirmation.  I'll keep going as long as Carbine and NCSoft are still with me, trying to convince people to give it a try.  To have a game so fun, so active, so engaging actually trying to KILL me is so refreshing!  I'm so sick of game companies shying away from the danger, figuring that what we want is for the game to be easy rather than accessible, paternalistic when we want it to be flexible.  I think Wildstar is the best MMORPG out there right now, and its future is looking so bright.
 
All it needs is one big break, and I feel like that's coming once PVP is in a better state.  Just one big PR push, one big trial period, one time when they can cram as many people into the game and show them what it's truly capable of being.  And we'll be back.
 
Until then, I see my friends from this game coming back, trying the trial, and giving their seals of approval to the changes.  I think Wildstar can give WoW a run for its money and I think Wildstar can win.  It just needs the chance.	
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Can't believe it's almost been a year since my first beta weekend. Iremember it vividl. 
 
Instantly create a stalker, and instantly falling in love with the combat, the flow,the musi, it all just came together as one big masterpiece, sure that mamasterpiece had its rough edges, but it was genuine it was hard and it felt good being a part of it	
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Can't believe it's almost been a year since my first beta weekend. Iremember it vividl.
 
Instantly create a stalker, and instantly falling in love with the combat, the flow,the musi, it all just came together as one big masterpiece, sure that mamasterpiece had its rough edges, but it was genuine it was hard and it felt good being a part of it
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So, I just looked through my saved emails. I joined Closed Beta in June of 2013. Holy crud. Almost two years I've been on Nexus, in one form or another.
 
It both seems longer than that, and not so long ago at all.	
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I, too, love this game now more than ever. I first tried it out in the last closed beta, but I wasn't ready for a new MMO yet. I wrote it off, and I didn't check it out again till a guildie linked those Dungeon and Raid dev speaks. Darnit! I knew I had to try it. I grabbed a couple of friends, and we jumped into the open beta. We leveled up until we hit the Hycrest Adventure - and that was it. We were hooked. The Crimson Cross was formed on the first day of headstart, and we've been steadily growing since. It's been quite a journey, and I'm glad to have been here for it. I look forward to many more adventures on Nexus with the awesome friends I've made (and new friends that are sure to come!)
 
I have been so impressed with Carbines willingness to re-evaluate things and to continue to push out QOL changes while giving us some very fun content updates (including fluff!) Thank you for all your hard work! <3	
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I like Wildstar too, and two weeks ago, I'd never even heard of it.
 
I've been a WoW player since vanilla, took a break through MoP, and came back with WoD last fall after I finally got a new computer. Going through MoP and WoD was enjoyable, but I got bored again relatively quick. Tired of the whole "medieval" thing, wishing for something different. I played Anarchy Online for a while several years ago and loved the sci-fi setting, but that game never held my attention, I just played the free version.
 
Then on BlizzWatch the other day, someone in the comments mentioned this "failed" game called Wildstar that was created by some former Blizzard people.I read up on it online, looked over the game, and it all looked awesome to me. Not sure how I managed not to come across it before.
 
Long story short: I did the trial for two days, bought the game, subbed, unsubbed from WoW, and I've been playing like a maniac ever since. This is the first time I've EVER subbed to a game other than WoW.
 
So far I've got Emmaline, my human Exile spellslinger, up to level 16 and I'm having a blast. Now if I can stumble on a decent social guild that'll take a filthy casual who isn't into running dungeons/raids or pvp, I'll be set.
 
Also as a side note: Thank you to all the positive people posting on the forums here. You're being heard by potential players like me.	
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I like Wildstar too, and two weeks ago, I'd never even heard of it.
 
I've been a WoW player since vanilla, took a break through MoP, and came back with WoD last fall after I finally got a new computer. Going through MoP and WoD was enjoyable, but I got bored again relatively quick. Tired of the whole "medieval" thing, wishing for something different. I played Anarchy Online for a while several years ago and loved the sci-fi setting, but that game never held my attention, I just played the free version.
 
Then on BlizzWatch the other day, someone in the comments mentioned this "failed" game called Wildstar that was created by some former Blizzard people.I read up on it online, looked over the game, and it all looked awesome to me. Not sure how I managed not to come across it before.
 
Long story short: I did the trial for two days, bought the game, subbed, unsubbed from WoW, and I've been playing like a maniac ever since. This is the first time I've EVER subbed to a game other than WoW.
 
So far I've got Emmaline, my human Exile spellslinger, up to level 16 and I'm having a blast. Now if I can stumble on a decent social guild that'll take a filthy casual who isn't into running dungeons/raids or pvp, I'll be set.
 
Also as a side note: Thank you to all the positive people posting on the forums here. You're being heard by potential players like me.
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			LOL that title made me think this is a "dear John" letter -  "I like you! It's not you, it's me, and we have to stop seeing each other..."	
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			I like you Wild Star but it's not me, it's you.	
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Ah, stories
 
SUMMER OF 2013
 A lad, staring at his computer screen bored of Mists of Pandaria waiting for patch 5.4. I am searching and searching for a game to play, something that would not be a bore. I searched and found something, it was called, WILDSTAR. The glorious art, the amazing comedic devspeaks, the COMBAT, then I watched as Towelliee played the early beta, I was so awed by the glorious nature of the game, the diverse and unique races. The interesting classes, and the lush and massive environments. I thought to myself "I MUST OWN THIS GAME!"
 
But then came november, and blizzcon took me away from the hype that was Wildstar, WARLORDS OF DREANOR OMG. This expansion will reign supreme, as the all time master of WoW expansions! Just a few months after though, I was bored of Siege and the Timeless Isle, so I looked once again, and as if fate called me, I saw Zybak posting early level PvP videos, once again I was ignited, and I pre ordered Wildstar, and convinced my friend to do the same. I played every beta weekend, waiting for the release of this magnificent game, SHALL I BE AN ESPER, OOOOH a STALKER, but wait, I leveled both of these to 14 and said... "Wait, a warrior, generic, but lets try it." BOOM I made my warrior and had so much fun! 
 
PAX, the developers would be there to put on a show, and what a show it was. So much good looking content. It even got my WoW fanboy friend interested.
              Open beta was a blast! 
WAIT, MAY 29TH, HEADSTART IS SOOON.
 
Boom Wildstar became open to us people who pre ordered, the chaos of launch was amazing, but once I got in, I loved every second of it. The leveling, the world, the lore, the pvp, everything was amazing.
 
June 22nd, I am level 50...but it was to late, PvP was becoming a nightmare people leaving, BUT GUESS WHAT, STRAIN ULTRADROP IS HERE, I loved it, didn't encounter many bugs, and loved the new content.
 
But as time went by I found myself getting bored, and by september, I unsubscribed from Wildstar.
 
I resubbed with megaservers, and went straight to PvE. but my sub ended on november 9th, and I didnt care for returning because...
 
WARLORDS OF DREANOR BABBBBY.
Best zones ever
amazing questing
awesome dungeons
GARRISONS
 
Then I entered December, and got my 7 days of Wildstar, and LOVED IT, drop 3 was so epic. Eventually I was given a Credd and played that more than WoD, because WoD *cupcake*ing sucked.
 
And then I found my favorite guild ever, The Final Frontier. And I kept playing Wildstar and loved it, to this day. I dont intend on leaving again.
 
All we need now is more players, as 30 people in academy corner is lame :P
 
Wildstar: I like you
 
 
I know some of you (Vince Blood hi) think I am just another doom speaker because I openly advocate my favorite payment model (b2p) but I assure you that is not true, I say those things because I care about the game and what it represents. I will continue playing for a long time, sub, or no sub	
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