108065-viability-of-free-to-play-using-credd-only

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Sorry if this has been discussed before but have not been able to find the thread.
 
Also this is my first post on the forum, so be gentle on me  :)
 
 
From the game website page on the Business model you get the impression that you could come to play the game without a subscription by playing enough to earn a steady income of credd.
 
You guys who are "seasoned" in the game by now, what does it actually take to earn an elusive credd?
Are they random raid type rewards, 10-20 raids or more like 10 dailies?
 
The followup is thusly, what order of play hours would you need to put in a month to get there?
 
 
 
Cheers!
 
 
 	
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			Honestly when you are level 50 you can get enough plat to get credd every month with casual dungeons and adventures. Just get lucky and AH a couple things for a few plat or do dailys which will add up as well.	
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Can only buy credd with shinies (platinum)
Does not drop ingame.
So if want to get CREDD, better make many shinies ingame.	
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			You start off with a subscription but can earn ingame money and transfer it over to credd by purchase... there's several that do this and don't pay the sub that month or however many credds they bought. Depending on the sever the price varies its a player controlled economy in regards to cred.. but i just purchased one to transfer funds over to my other characters and it cost around 6.50 plat sold for around 5.50 so i lost around a plat in the transfer.	
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There is plenty of people around who purchase two or more CREDD every month.
 
Tip:  Go to play on a less populated server, CREDD prices are as much as 60% off the prices on high pop servers or popular servers like Pergo or something.	
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but have not been able to find the thread.
 
Also this is my first post on the forum, so be gentle on me  :)
 
 
From the game website page on the Business model you get the impression that you could come to play the game without a subscription by playing enough to earn a steady income of credd.
 
You guys who are "seasoned" in the game by now, what does it actually take to earn an elusive credd?
Are they random raid type rewards, 10-20 raids or more like 10 dailies?
 
The followup is thusly, what order of play hours would you need to put in a month to get there?
 
 
 
Cheers!
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It depends...I'm rather casual with play time.  So it took me most of my free month to get my first char to 50.  I kinda only had a week to farm enough plat for the credd on my server.  and that took basically all my gold.  So you may not be able to pay for the second month with your first (free) month.  
 
Tho I should probably add the caveat that I was leveling my crafting.  Buying those crafting materials like power cores from the vendor did add up.
 
Regardless you should be able to pay for your 3rd month and on with credd...depending on how the market behaves.	
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There's an NPC ingame where you can buy CREDD from other players, prices varying from server to server. You could also make an offer.
Somewhere someone has to buy it via IRL money first though.
 
It's around 11p/CREDD on my server and easily affordable for an active lvl50 character.
I didn't spend a single cent for subscription so far.	
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There's an NPC ingame where you can buy CREDD from other players, prices varying from server to server. You could also make an offer.
Somewhere someone has to buy it via IRL money first though.
 
It's around 11p/CREDD on my server and easily affordable for an active lvl50 character.
I didn't spend a single cent for subscription so far.
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			They go for about 5 plat on my server and I really don't know how you can't make that in a month. I know many folks that make more than that daily.	
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Very viable for anyone who plays more than an hour or so a day. For me (fairly well geared 50) it takes some 3-4 hours to simply mob farm the plats needed for a single CREDD. I do know better ways to make gold in the game however, so depending on the economy and so on, I prolly spend about 2-3 hours making gold for each CREDD.
 
 	
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Only about 5 on Evindra. :)
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Tip:  Go to play on a less populated server, CREDD prices are as much as 60% off the prices on high pop servers or popular servers like Pergo or something.
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All I do is PvP and dailies, I don't do all the dailies every day either, and can easily pay my sub w/credd.
 
 How? Credd vendor in trade area of your faction city.
 
if you want to buy credd to sell for ingame currency https://shop.wildstar-online.com/?lang=en
 
edit: also have a mining and festival fabkits on my housing plot, I don't farm, but I do hit them up every time I visit my plot.	
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			I haven't paid a sub fee yet. I <3 CREDD!	
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There is plenty of people around who purchase two or more CREDD every month.
 
Tip:  Go to play on a less populated server, CREDD prices are as much as 60% off the prices on high pop servers or popular servers like Pergo or something.
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On my server (Widow) I pay about 5P per CREDD.  You'll want to be level 50, but then making money is easy.  Once you're Elder Point capped for the week (takes maybe 2-3 days, depending on what you're doing) you can make 1P a day no problem just by doing all dailies in a couple of zones, supplemented by a mining circle.
 
So even if you want to spend money on other stuff, providing you can put in 1-2 hours a day most days, you can be buying 2 CREDD per month at those prices and still have plenty left over. 
 
I'm just buying more than one per month now since I can't see the prices going any lower.  If you only need one per month you could do that in like 1 hour a day of playing, if even that.
 
tl;dr - yes, you can play Wildstar like B2P.  It'll take you 1-2 hours per day maximum, at level 50.	
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 I used one CREDD this last month and have 3 more I bought in a month.
 
The catch is finding the motivation to log in and actually use the game time... You can lead a horse to water, but if the stream tastes like crap that horse is going to refuse to drink.	
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 I used one CREDD this last month and have 3 more I bought in a month.
 
The catch is finding the motivation to log in and actually use the game time... You can lead a horse to water, but if the stream tastes like crap that horse is going to refuse to drink.
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 I used one CREDD this last month and have 3 more I bought in a month.
 
The catch is finding the motivation to log in and actually use the game time... You can lead a horse to water, but if the stream tastes like crap that horse is going to refuse to drink.
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If you don't like the game don't play it? 
I don't get it...if it's bad enough that it makes you go all drama llama just go do something else? Sticking around complaining about it just makes you look foolish. Also your analogy sucks. 
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Any excuse to whinge?
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Any excuse to illustrate your feeble attempt to sound relevant?
 
Using real words help a whole lot.
 
Funny how the ones that don't like what I have to say don't actually have anything to reply with other than rote knee-jerk comments.
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Obviously relevant enough for you to reply. 
 
It is a real word, perhaps you should expand your vocabulary.
 
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/whinge
 
I also don't care what you have to say, I stated a fact, that you are in fact, whinging. I also find this sentence ironic, since that's exactly what you're doing, but sure, continue to come into threads and whine about completely irrelevant things, after all! spending your time on a game you dislike = "smart". 
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A British term... you are smart enough to understand. This is not Europe. SURPRISE! It's a British form the word whine... but of course instead of using the relevant cultural language you attempt to inject some obscure term nobody uses over here?
 
You don't care what I have to say? That's why you took the time to reply? LOL! Pot meet kettle!
 
I'm not sure who you are trying to fool but it's not me. How does that leather from your shoe taste? The main issue here is at your age you still don't understand the difference between fact and opinion. That's very scary for everyone around you! 
 
You still fit neatly into my original reply, nothing to say other than knee-jerk commentary.
 
I said I use CREDD. <--- not whining, I also said it was not worth it for me. <--- again no whining, just factual statements as they apply to me. I never extended it any further, you did.
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			I have played two months with CREDD now and I have one more CREDD left although I have barely played for a couple of weeks because of Drop 2. It is entirely viable, depends on the prices though but busy servers have a relatively low CREDD cost. It's easy farmable in a week, especially if your Elder Gems are capped for the week, you'll get 1p total from doing both daily zones, mix in some Mining (mining circle) or Survivability or both for maximum farm!	
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Strangepowers' comment is actually relevent to the OP's question.  If you arent able to play the game enough for whatever reason to not earn enough plat to buy a CREDD then obviously you wont be able to sustain your free sub.  I'm in a similar situation where i havent been playing enough in the past week and that may affect whether i can afford a CREDD or not for this month.
 
Instead you guys decide to call out the guy on whining? ohh ohh i'm sorry whinging? whatever	
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