134574-first-experience-with-wildstar-f2p

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Fired up the patcher at 2:30AM PST, thinking there might be a bit more bandwidth at that hour. Got to about 5%, crashed with lost connection to patcher. The main website for WIldstar went down simultaneously, and stayed down until I gave up and went to bed an hour later.
 
Today, was able to patch. Queue wait time was estimated at 5 hours, but I figured that was an overestimation, and sure enough a couple hours later there was just 30 minutes to go. At which point, I got "Lost connection with user server" and had to start over. 
 
Great launch!
 
No option to exit I might add. Have to end task.
			
				
	Edited October 1, 2015 by Hal900x	
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			Its pretty fun and worth the wait till issues are dealt with :) I am probably just gonna take a 2 day break and come back, see how it is. Comparing with yesterday and today, got to play a bit totally lag free, so progress is being made :) 	
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From what brief glimpses I've seen of the game, it sure looks like it might be fun. 
 
I can't really tell yet, as the longest stretch of play I had without "losing connection to user server" was only level 1-5.	
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Have now gotten to character creation screen! Unfortunately, I recommend you take the first random look you get, as each time I spend 5 minutes customizing my look, the server crashes again, losing my creation and starting me back in the queue again. 
 
I was a huge supported of Wildstar in the beginning and I was really hopeful for this launch. You would think, with millions and millions of dollars invested, and a chance for a rebirth, they would have prepared a bit better. That said, game dev companies are notorious for putting way too much pressure and expectations on their employees. I would not be surprised if this is the stockholder's fault, as opposed to the IT guys scrambling day and night to get this thing stable. Still, no excuse for the condition of this launch....it's not the first launch, it's the second.	
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			the game is fun not all games are perfect when they lanuch so give it time everyone is over flooding the server with logins and cant handle it just like any other MMO game out there	
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