120822-spread-the-word

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Okay, this is kind of embarassing to me as I usually keep telling people about how I have played like every RPG or MMORPG there is. Well, I have played Wildstar at the Gamescom in 2011 (I think it was 2011 at least) but have completely lost sight of it. And here I am giving this game a shot today and... well, what should I say. I am truly amazed by the game! I don't wanna go into details as you all probably play the game, but what I am actually confused about is why I never hear anything about the game at all. I feel like I found a treasure thought lost.
 
I really don't want to see this game die because of a lack of PR, so I would like to discuss what we, as a community, can do to spread the word and make people give this game a try.	
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			I tell people, at least those interested in MMO gaming about this game whenever I can. Other than that, just gotta trust in NCSoft.	
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			I'm sure they are getting their ducks in a row and fixing some stuff before they spend any ad $ if they spend any real ad $. The game is quality and NC Soft should ride this launch out. It will bounce back. It seems like that has already started from what I've read. I just got my friend back in it and away from WoW and he seems to like it a lot. I post screenshots on Steam that generate interest. It will get there. I have faith.	
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with a gw2 expension on the way?
and eso doing better every weeks?
 
im quite sure its more like:
make sure you keep your tiny playerbase invested by saying you are "redesigning" the gear (and basically make your players grind more of the same content) and pray that pvpers will stick around as a garage league of peeps that trade wins (seriously? lock the best gear behind rating? *cupcake* not so genius if you ask me. even more dumb considering you basically have not enough players to make the bgs happen so people without gear will play against full gear people anyway).
 
there is so many redesign that needs to be done...
is it worth it?	
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What do i tell people interested in PvP?
 
Umm yeah, the combat's pretty fun, but... if you do arenas and are even kind of decent you'll just sit in the capital for 8 hours and get maybe 6 queues a day. Oh and if you start today it will only take you like 3 months to get all your ability, and amp points if you farm a ton of plat instead of PvP'ing.
 
You could try battle grounds, but the thing is you need to do arenas first to get rating locked gear so you don't completely suck. Battleground q's only pop during a 6 hour window, and you'll get 2-3 games maybe per hour. If you don't already have the gear, your gearscore will be too low to enter, so you won't get queues either (this is supposed to be band-aided pretty soon) 
 
Oh, and the gear you get has rune slots which may or may not be the element you need, but you can change it for only 2.4 plat. That only takes like an hour to farm and you have 5 slots on each item, but you need to add the 5th slot for like 6 eldan modules each. They sometimes drop from pvp bags, but the best way to get them is farm a level 20 dungeon for about 20 hours.
 
They don't really balance PvP from PvE either. There's a raid that gives better gear than what you'll ever get from PvP. Skills etc. perform the same way regardless of setting. A few potions don't work in instances, but some do kind of arbitrarily.
 
They also have a public test realm server that you can report bugs, and things that may be OP, but it seems that it's already locked, and they can't actually make changes to anything or only very small changes. So what is the point of this server? I'm not really sure, sneak peak i guess. So if it's broken on the PTR that means it's probably going to the live server a month or two later still broken, and might get fixed in the next quartley drop, so 4-5 months from now.
 
I should probably keep this to myself otherwise the servers will get overloaded and we will have queues to login.	
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I really don't want to see this game die because of a lack of PR, so I would like to discuss what we, as a community, can do to spread the word and make people give this game a try.
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and eso doing better every weeks?
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			I told a friend interested to wait. My server is dead, so why spend time here, when we can spend time somewhere else which won't cost him monthly and will have more life?	
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I'm new and enjoying this game very much too but I'm worried that the low pop number will make my life very boring on the multiplier end of things.
 
I literally see noone around while questing!	
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			Whether you see people or not depends mostly on your server population. I see people complain about it a lot, but I've recently been doing a decent amount of alting and have seen plenty of people around. Hell I was incredibly surprised to see half a dozen people just in the starter Deradune town alone. There were even people talking in zone chat. That said, Entity is the most populated server at the moment.	
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			A tip from one noob to another.. play on PvE server. The further I have progressed the more players I run into. The main Hub cities are populated with plenty of people. I have grouped and leveled with strangers almost every time I have logged in the past few weeks. I watch the zone chat and if I see someone LFG to defeat one of the 2 or 3 man mini-bosses and I respond and travel to help them even if it's across the map. I've made plenty of friends this way and have had a very enjoyable time thus far from 0-20 PvE Dominion. 	
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			I'd rather not the game is still in bad position. Everyone I've got into Wildstar quit pretty quickly and will most likely not return.	
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			I've been playing with my co-workers ever since Drop 3; and they've been addicted ever since I suggested the game. Three of them even play with their wives now.	
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