147559-every-3-month-schedule

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			I hope the devs enjoyed their holiday, but now I have to ask: how is Wildstar going to maintain its 4 drops a year, one every 3 month, schedule if drop 7 isn't even on PTR yet? Drop 6 was September 29th. Which means that drop 7 is due in only about 4 weeks, doesn't it?	
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That story got debunked like a year ago.
They cannot stick to that schedule with their current crew.	
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That story got debunked like a year ago.
They cannot stick to that any schedule with their current crew.
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I love this game and it has come a very long way, but also see it's obvious flaws which Carbine just doesn't seem to be able to handle. Just about everything takes them too long or too many tries to get it halfway working and out the door, just so that the final state of it can be applied by several patches the week after.
 
Communication came down to an absolut minimum. What happened to "the devs are listening"? In case anyone is still listening...what about they wouldn't just listen, but also say something? (runes say hello)
 
At the current rate of development and progression, Wildstar will be in the saddest state again within one year. Bold prediction from a Wildstar lover. I read alot that "the population is now leveling out after F2P" and i t think that's just a polite way to say that people leaving again. Of course not everybody stays and a F2P title will always have alot of comers and goers, but people again leaving for (the same old) bugs, performance and lack of content at this time after release is a shame and nothing but the studio's fault.
 
The game has potential beyond anything else on the market right now, but it just can't be brought to a proper level by Carbine. Until today, so many systems still don't work. Come on, at times or after some patches not even the launcher or login process does. "But every mmorpg has its flaws", "WoW in 2004 had this and that and then some..." -i hear you and i was there, crawling up the road to Ironforge in a slide show with 256megs of Ram.
But it's 2015 and Wildstar is not remotely in a position in which Carbine can effort flaws like say the UI still not working properly. And it already took them two tries.Tooltips are a mess, QoL features missing allover the place incl. the chat, performance hogging, default addons crashing, frames broken etc.
I put my conclusion to this in three letters: W T F !?
The UI is among the VERY first things everyone experiences and fiddles around with when entering a new game. There is no better way to put someone off than greeting him with an addon crash on his first login. Stuff like this simply HAS to work, there is just no excuse.
 
Patch notes really are a shame at times. Where are the big content bombs this game needs? "Ohhh, we've got one of these guys here! have you cleared all content then?!" -no, i haven't. But i'm fine and set with leveling, hugging trees and fluff. Hence this is not about me, but about people leaving when they see a meager handful of dungeons that don't even pop in reasonable time and for which there is neither a proper groupfinder nor an acceptable queue system that allows them to get in line for more than a single(!) event at a time.
 
I'm sure everyone at Carbine is doing his/her best and puts heart and soul into this game and it all makes me feel sorry about the overall situation, but at the moment i don't see this game going anywhere. At least not in a timely manner and before NCSoft pulls the plug.
 
 
 	
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That story got debunked like a year ago.
They cannot stick to that schedule with their current crew.
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didn't they say that they can't stick to 1 month release schedule, so they're doing quarterly releases, which would put it at an update every 3-4 months?
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Well, we got Drop 1-3 pretty quick but it was after Drop 2 that the statement was made, they pushed Drop 3 back a bit too to make sure it was okay (also why we didn't get Shade's Eve or Winterfest in 2014).
 
As for now? I think they're saying quarterly, which puts things anywhere in a range of months. We could get the next drop anywhere in Jan-March. Then after that, anywhere between April-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec. Could go 3 months, 2 months, 4 months...all kinds of combinations between things there. We'll see if they stick to it in 2016.
 
F2P was right on the border of Q3 and Q4 this year, so outside of the holiday events? Don't bank anything until sometime in the first three months of 2016.
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Even if you went by fiscal quarters, drop 6 was in 3Q15. Which is my point: other than hints that it might contain the Vault of the Archon instance, we have no announcement of a drop for 4Q15.
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			Never before have I so wanted a game dev staff to succeed!   Rawr!  Go team!  Make good content!  Yay!	
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