130988-for-the-ones-who-missed-the-stream-today

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There was an additional offical livestream today with Chad Moore, Mike Donatelli and CM Sunshine. Most important things:
 
o    New ingame event: Hoverboard Inventational! Lot´s race tracks all over Nexus with speed boosts, ramps and other funny stuff. There will be races with leaderboards and super awesome rewards ... (Small Focus Test next week on PTR) (really carbine, you like to be scolded or what, after all those mean things about drop 6 why wouldnt you announce this when talked about THUNDERDOME or the new drusera instanc, this is simply great)
 
o    Fishing and new movement mechanics (flying?!) .. yeah ... could be! (really another thing you could have said early to keep us happy but no!)
 
o    Current Free-2-Play trailer is only a teaser! We are gonna to see the full version soon! (dominion dont fall, you will b e rewarded)
 
o    Holo Crypt snarks will be a toggle option. (Default: On) (we won guys, we won)
 
o    New character cosmetics (hairs etc.) will coming into the item shop.
 
o    All beta testers will get the character title "Freelancer" in November. (yeah shinies)
 
o    There will be a character wipe on live realms on September 29th. BUT!!! Only for characters on the Arkship!!!!!!!!
 
o    There will be a long official livestream event with Q&As, giveaways and more on September 29th! (LFM 10k man raid, be itm lvl 80 or +, wildstar stream raid, we can down pappy, TT, and donatelli, loot by rolling)
 
o    Confirmed: Winterfest 2015 on Nexus! (i loved what caydiem made with shades eve, i know she wont let us down)
 
o    Neighbourhoods: Devs need more time! They want to make it bigger and more awesome ...
 
o    "WildStar: Reloaded" is only the name for Drop #6 not a new brand! (ok, could have been more creative but its ok)
 
o    Confirmed: Much more WildStar merchandise incoming! Shop?!!?!?! (i want my freacking plushies--grabs marshal yatish by the ears and menaces with cutting him into pieces---)
 
o    Veteran Rewards will be distributed on September 29th!
 
 
Source: http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/v/14245096thanks to wildweave for this summary	
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o    New character cosmetics (hairs etc.) will coming into the item shop.
 
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			So they really confirmed Fishing is coming? or was this an answer to a question along the lines of "yeah we'd like to someday"	
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			You had me at 'fishing' but you killed me at 'new hair'.	
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			fishing confirmed at some point in the future (soon )but the new moving mechanics are kinda a vague response thats why the op in reddit said (flying) as speculation, but it also can be better moving animations for mechari as the population have asked
			
				
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Sweet, nice to see a bunch of neat new stuff. I'm sure a lot of it won't come in the near future, but that's fine. Also, for like the first time ever in my gaming history, I'm excited about earning a title... Freelancers ftw!
 
If they shape this game up and make the PVP really fun and competitive, as well as dump in some new tough PvE content with the next drop, WS will be movin' on up. I've liked a lot of different MMOs since I stopped playing WoW, but IMO Wildstar has more potential and distinction than the competition. The action pace to its combat and movement, the now ridiculous housing, and the flush amount of cosmetic options can carry this game into the next decade.  B)
 
I do have one criticism of the F2P launch, even though it's old news... Why Tuesday!? That's SUCH a yucky time to unleash a big content drop. Now that I'm employed, it'd be nice to have a Friday drop so I don't have to call in sick... *coughcough* :rolleyes:	
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			I definitely want to see the full trailer.	
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fishing confirmed at some point in the future (soon )but the new moving mechanics are kinda a vague response thats why the op in reddit said (flying) as speculation, but it also can be better moving animations for mechari as the population have asked
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			 I think my basket of eggs will be filled when they finally announce.. all races all classes... yeeeeaaaaah!!!! play what ya want what you really really want.	
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Don't know how they could do flying without absolutely mucking up the explorer path. Personally if you just boost ground mount speeds I'm happy. But I also love climbing everywhere in wildstar. It's built for that. Anyway, aside from that, this all looks amazing.
 
Kiiiind of bummed at the idea of new hairstyles/facial customization being a shop thing. Hard to remember that it's just how F2P works. Otherwise hoverboard tracks sounds amazing, fishing sounds amazing, neighborhooodsss plssss I want. 
 
Winterfest I'm sure will be spectacular given what shades eve looks like. And also, thank the Chua Overlords for Holo Crypt! Was so scared of that going away. Crypt snark is best snark.
 
All in all, I'm excited :)
			
				
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 Just watched the stream.. now im really really curious about neighborhoods!
Holding back to take it farther than what they initially wanted...and instead of just players housing together....doing content together.. with more people?
This leads me to only two points.. I hope neighborhoods are instanced or at least some hybrid alternative to open world.. to prevent a cluttered mess...
Could this possibly mean that the neighborhoods might be player driven (custom built)  content hubs (or neighborhoods become interactive).. if so this could be a big deal for this game.. player driven content means there is always something new to check out....ooh im so curious now!	
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			Some unexpected and interested things in there. Did they mention how they plan to incorporate the hoverboard tracks? They aren't going to build actual tracks all over nexus directly into the environment are they?	
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			Yay this made me excited after the negative mood I have been for the release. I kinda dislike the idea of new hair in the cash shop but as long as I can buy with omnibits is all good!	
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 I think my basket of eggs will be filled when they finally announce.. all races all classes... yeeeeaaaaah!!!! play what ya want what you really really want.
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Yay this made me excited after the negative mood I have been for the release. I kinda dislike the idea of new hair in the cash shop but as long as I can buy with omnibits is all good!
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o    Holo Crypt snarks will be a toggle option. (Default: On) (we won guys, we won)
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This should get move love, as much hell as we raised.
 
Thank you for listening Carbine. Please let this be an indication that you want to keep the unique flavor and soul of your game intact.
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I didn't see a thread for today's livestream, and I didn't think this bit of news was worth a new thread or necroing a really old one.  But they did mention on stream that there would be a grace period for the Ikthian Crawler mount, to cover for times when subscriptions weren't renewed because of technical difficulties and such.
 
Also, the email message about free to play I received the other day mentioned that I'd be eligible for the mount if I maintained my subscription, so people can look for that if they are uncertain about qualification.	
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But they did mention on stream that there would be a grace period for the Ikthian Crawler mount, to cover for times when subscriptions weren't renewed because of technical difficulties and such.
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			And after today's show...they are still saying they don't know about steam, can't see any reason why with only 3 weeks to go they would hold back on info ? If they are actually not going to steam, must admit I'm now getting worried about the future! Of course this could be just another weird idea of PR from Carbine 	
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			Can I buy Mechari player VO in the cash shop too? :D	
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And after today's show...they are still saying they don't know about steam, can't see any reason why with only 3 weeks to go they would hold back on info ? If they are actually not going to steam, must admit I'm now getting worried about the future! Of course this could be just another weird idea of PR from Carbine 
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  Theres probably a lot of hoop jumping between NCsoft and carbine to get it primed for steam...Especially when it comes to the bigger companies. They got two audiences their trying prep accomidations for. So if their plans are to hit steam they'll probably going to do it after the smoke settles with the transitions as well as entering the asian gaming market. ITs a difficult task to tackle to many fronts at one time.. 
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			I watched the stream but I didn't hear any mention of  "a grace period for the Ikthian Crawler mount, to cover for times when subscriptions weren't renewed because of technical difficulties and such", was this a dev response in chat? The stream said it's for players subbed continuously from launch until F2P and players who quit after a week or two but forgot to cancel their year sub and came back when this good but prematurely launched game was in a much better state. While a grace period covering short gaps would be better than nothing it's far from ideal. Angering the few customers left after a terrible launch is not what a game turning to F2P life-support need, it needs to keep as many players as possible as it has already failed once. They can still change their mind about their flawed player appreciation program and include all players subbed before the F2P announcement, but since we're so close to the F2P launch now I doubt they will. It's a shame because this is a good game and the devs participate actively in the game's community, shame the management was and still is horrendous.	
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http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/v/14399776
 
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Uh, the crawler, or the Itkhian mount was for people who have had uh no lapse in subscription uh and you know basically what we've done is is we we know that there was a few days there where you know maybe credit like credit card the account system was kind of down for a bit and stuff and so that that is not a solid amount of time so people who you know even if there was a small minor lapse in coverage do to you know account errors etc etc um we've had some you know we've had a grace period that that still counts so you still get all of those those rewards
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			Ah thank you, I watched the F2P date reveal stream and was thinking of that. I hope they will change their mind though, doesn't seem likely now but still.	
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If only the game was ready to go F2P.
 
Judging by my experience in the beta, it's not.	
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You made my day, dinwitt! I've been having internet issues so I haven't been able watch the recording of the stream I missed myself, and thus missed that piece of information - that is the single best piece of news for me personally, and I'm so relieved! I've had ticket response similar to that regarding the issue, which I appreciate, but it feels so much more concrete and real hearing it on the stream as well, since they usually refrain from voicing stuff unless it's pretty much a sure thing.
 
I feel way better now! Thanks for mentioning it  :wub:  :D	
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 Theres probably a lot of hoop jumping between NCsoft and carbine to get it primed for steam...Especially when it comes to the bigger companies. They got two audiences their trying prep accomidations for. So if their plans are to hit steam they'll probably going to do it after the smoke settles with the transitions as well as entering the asian gaming market. ITs a difficult task to tackle to many fronts at one time..
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o    New character cosmetics (hairs etc.) will coming into the item shop.
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  Theres probably a lot of hoop jumping between NCsoft and carbine to get it primed for steam...Especially when it comes to the bigger companies. They got two audiences their trying prep accomidations for. So if their plans are to hit steam they'll probably going to do it after the smoke settles with the transitions as well as entering the asian gaming market. ITs a difficult task to tackle to many fronts at one time.. 
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Neighborhoods need to be instanced or you end up with FFXIV's nightmare. Shortly after adding open world housing they ran out of supply, and there's now a huge swath of players who cannot buy housing, period - because the plots are mostly taken by people who pay their sub but left the game years ago...
 
(It's actually even worse - people who bought houses but cancelled their subs still kept their houses. So fully gone players own a large portion of FFXIV's housing. And since those players aren't even subbed, they cannot even log back in to give away the house if they wanted to...)
 
Their devs keep gating new features behind having a house, causing an outcry over the lack of housing.
 
Here we all have a house, but if they lick content behind being in a neighborhood and then limit the supply of neighbirhoods - they will face the same fiasco FFXIV's devs have.
			
				
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I'm thinking it's more hoop jumping between NCSoft and Valve.  NCSoft used to have all of their games on Steam, but pulled everything (only Guild Wars returned) the same time EA did when Valve started requiring games to use the Steam storefront or Steam Wallet for microtransactions, which obviously cuts into NCSoft's profits.  If this requirement still exists (I know other F2P MMOs like Rift and ArcheAge both use Steam Wallet when launched from Steam), I imagine that's causing some behind-the-scenes wrangling. 
 
Hopefully it gets worked out before F2P launch, because I think that'd be a significant boon to its launch, but I can sort of understand NCSoft not wanting to share Wildstar's revenue when it's been hard to come by in the first place.
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But they did mention on stream that there would be a grace period for the Ikthian Crawler mount, to cover for times when subscriptions weren't renewed because of technical difficulties and such.
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			Covering the players who missed mere hours/days should have been announced right away after the massive wave of negative feedback, I actually thought they had something else in mind since they've been so quiet about this. At least them simply mentioning their partial solution briefly on a stream not connected to any particular announcement and quietly sending the players now eligible for all rewards e-mails is sort of admitting they screwed up - they really don't want to talk about this.	
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Neighborhoods need to be instanced or you end up with FFXIV's nightmare. Shortly after adding open world housing they ran out of supply, and there's now a huge swath of players who cannot buy housing, period - because the plots are mostly taken by people who pay their sub but left the game years ago...
 
(It's actually even worse - people who bought houses but cancelled their subs still kept their houses. So fully gone players own a large portion of FFXIV's housing. And since those players aren't even subbed, they cannot even log back in to give away the house if they wanted to...)
 
Their devs keep gating new features behind having a house, causing an outcry over the lack of housing.
 
Here we all have a house, but if they lick content behind being in a neighborhood and then limit the supply of neighbirhoods - they will face the same fiasco FFXIV's devs have.
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Covering the players who missed mere hours/days should have been announced right away after the massive wave of negative feedback, I actually thought they had something else in mind since they've been so quiet about this. At least them simply mentioning their partial solution briefly on a stream not connected to any particular announcement and quietly sending the players now eligible for all rewards e-mails is sort of admitting they screwed up - they really don't want to talk about this.
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			Wait a minute. I got a mail on the 4th of September saying I'd get a DJ Caretaker and the Snoglug if I stayed subbed till the 29th. I thought that was just a general mail. But people are getting mails where the mount is mentioned as a reward? I'm quite sure that if I even lapsed it wouldn't be more than a day. Probably only a few hours. I suppose people who fall under the grace period thing might not get the correct mail then.	
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Wait a minute. I got a mail on the 4th of September saying I'd get a DJ Caretaker and the Snoglug if I stayed subbed till the 29th. I thought that was just a general mail. But people are getting mails where the mount is mentioned as a reward? I'm quite sure that if I even lapsed it wouldn't be more than a day. Probably only a few hours. I suppose people who fall under the grace period thing might not get the correct mail then.
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			Guess that's something then Phandaal, hehe.	
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Guess that's something then Phandaal, hehe.
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I didn't see a thread for today's livestream, and I didn't think this bit of news was worth a new thread or necroing a really old one.  But they did mention on stream that there would be a grace period for the Ikthian Crawler mount, to cover for times when subscriptions weren't renewed because of technical difficulties and such.
 
Also, the email message about free to play I received the other day mentioned that I'd be eligible for the mount if I maintained my subscription, so people can look for that if they are uncertain about qualification.
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Eh, I still wish they'd just give it to anyone who played for a decent bit of time while the game was P2P. Seems like it would be far more fair and still reward the people who stuck around. Instead of only a teeny tiny percentage whilst leaving the others to get upset they get nothing for sticking around too.
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			quick question about the beta testers title: is there a certain amount of time that you have to be on the PTR? or is it just anyone who make a charter there and possibly submitted a bug report?	
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Eh, I still wish they'd just give it to anyone who played for a decent bit of time while the game was P2P. Seems like it would be far more fair and still reward the people who stuck around. Instead of only a teeny tiny percentage whilst leaving the others to get upset they get nothing for sticking around too.
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			Thank you for posting the highlights op, and thank you Carbine studios for listening. :)	
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They haven't had enough players to decently populate one server per region in ages so why worry about whether it will be exclusive enough? They shouldn't be treating most of the few P2P players they have left after the game's rushed release like second class subscribers. Making all player appreciation rewards available as cosmic point rewards to anyone who paid a sub beyond the first month before F2P was announced would be fair to everyone. Instead they needed three months to decide that they would cover the players with small lapses?
 
And anyone who has stayed subscribed since June 15th do get a pet and decor item but players were informed about these two rewards before the 15th. This gave everyone a chance to obtain them and since it doesn't matter whether you've been subscribed for 3 or 8, 9, 10+ months the rewards are tiered terribly. Some players subbed since launch even left their subs auto renewing for months even though they left early but came back when the game got more polished, another reason the cosmic point solution would be more fair.	
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