120245-will-we-see-a-paid-expansion-next-year

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Just wondering, 
 
I can see it happening and if they went all out with collectors editions, ect ect I would buy it! I would say, raise the level cap to 60, new race, hero class and a new land mass (and possibly a newly discovered moon) to explore!? What do you think?	
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That would be something brilliant to look forward to. I would like an expansion with new races, classes, path etc.
 
I love the world of Wildstar. Having more of it is more than welcome! :D	
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			All this kind of saddens me. But hopefully some good content patches?	
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			I would hope they wait until at least the 2 year mark before thinking about something like this. I'd like to see many more changes to core systems and expanding upon current content before thinking about adding that many more things to potentially go wrong.	
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All this kind of saddens me. But hopefully some good content patches?
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 	Will we see a paid expansion next year?
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Less than 50 guilds worldwide have cleared the Genetic Archives, the first of two raids, and we're asking for an expansion?
 
I get the desire for more classes, races, etc but what's really needed is for  CRB to polish what they have already, maybe add a little along the way, and get more people into the game.	
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			I don't think so. They will focus on expanding the player base next year. An expansion is realistic for 2016 though.	
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Less than 50 guilds worldwide have cleared the Genetic Archives, the first of two raids, and we're asking for an expansion?
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			I hope they fix some stuff up but I LOVE Nexus and would love to see amazing new zones/continents!	
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I'm 1 for 3 on satisfaction with expansions.  SW:TOR's Makeb expansion took away some abilities I kinda depended on, but I was able to adapt.  Their recent Revan one though... ugh, when the top theorycrafters for your favorite class abandon it because of the changes... no, just no.  At least in TOR I have a whole stable of pre-SoR max level alts to play with should I get the urge to return.  I don't have that luxury in WoW and they really broke the feel of the one 90 I had there.  No way am I going to buy a boost... so WoW's pretty much dead to me too.
 
I dread expansions and level cap increases and the massive ability churn those typically foist on the player population.	
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Paid expansions are what you do when you have a large and sustainable playerbase that is so invested in your game that you can afford to shuffle the deck a bit with major new changes to the landscape of classes, abilites, content, and gear and have most people stay rather than leave.
 
This game doesn't have that yet. This game doesn't even have it's post-launch fixes completed yet. So I think this is very premature.	
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Paid expansions are what you do when you have a large and sustainable playerbase that is so invested in your game that you can afford to shuffle the deck a bit with major new changes to the landscape of classes, abilites, content, and gear and have most people stay rather than leave.
 
This game doesn't have that yet. This game doesn't even have it's post-launch fixes completed yet. So I think this is very premature.
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The schedule of content releases become irrelevant if the developers do not have enough numbers to justify the cost of those releases. Considering Wildstar's scope (both financially and in design), It does matter if they have 100 or 100 million players. If the number of players is too low to justify the costs of designing and testing an expansion pack, you can be sure we won't get any expansion pack despite whatever is 'scheduled'. Not now, and not in a thousand years.
And I believe the post-launch fixes he's talking about are the whole "itemization is getting reworked for Drop 4" and the "raids are not as popular as Carbine hoped they'd be, despite numerous people giving them all the reasons of why this would be the case since the Betas started".
 
Anyway. The most obvious setting for an expansion would be Pyra (the little red planetoid that's right next to Nexus) or adding land to Farside. Unless Farside is -just- that one crater. The good thing about being a setting In Space! is that the devs can really go bonkers and add whole new planets the size of Nexus if they really want. Or bigger. It's a pretty handy and versatile setup.	
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eh....I'd say no for a few reasons that have been mentioned. However primarily to sum it all up "It's way to early for an expansion"
 
This is just me, but honestly if Carbine were to announce a paid expansion this early it would probably cause such an enormous backlash similar to the Vibora Bay situation(possibly worst) with Champions Online. While I can see Carbine fixing up things and getting their ducks lined up the current state would probably make quite a few people go "Wtf..." for various reasons to their own, which would probably revolve around a general sense of "why are you doing an expansion when the current "era" isn't up to snuff"
 
I honestly think that the drops are enough though if they're consistent and offer enough quality content to last till the next instead of holding back content for year(or more in some game cases) for one big ol expansion...	
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The schedule of content releases become irrelevant if the developers do not have enough numbers to justify the cost of those releases. Considering Wildstar's scope (both financially and in design), It does matter if they have 100 or 100 million players. If the number of players is too low to justify the costs of designing and testing an expansion pack, you can be sure we won't get any expansion pack despite whatever is 'scheduled'. Not now, and not in a thousand years.
And I believe the post-launch fixes he's talking about are the whole "itemization is getting reworked for Drop 4" and the "raids are not as popular as Carbine hoped they'd be, despite numerous people giving them all the reasons of why this would be the case since the Betas started".
 
Anyway. The most obvious setting for an expansion would be Pyra (the little red planetoid that's right next to Nexus) or adding land to Farside. Unless Farside is -just- that one crater. The good thing about being a setting In Space! is that the devs can really go bonkers and add whole new planets the size of Nexus if they really want. Or bigger. It's a pretty handy and versatile setup.
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72 guilds have killed Ohmna, although still a small margin. And Carbine doesn't have any plans on making a expansion anytime soon from what I remember. 
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Some of these replies make it seem like hes asking for an expansion now, he isn't.  Most of the reasons there wont be an xpac next year don't make sense to me. But it is true there wont be an expansion next year, want to know a good reason?
 
Redmoom Rising in summer: I think it should be pretty obvious that redmoon Rising is the Ulduar or ToT of Wildstar, we still need the Entity Strain raid (Early 2016 most likely) then we can get an expansion. So I am predicting a mid 2016 expansion release. What I want
 
Lvl 60 level cap
2 New Raids
2 new races (1 dom, 1 exile)
1 new class (Shapechanger pls)
New World (either Arboria or one with Dwarves)
1-3 new battlegrounds
New arena
10 man content (not raids)
New shiphands (like 5-10 please
New dungeons (2-4 please)
New Adventures (2-4 please)
Some random new feature	
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Where are you finding that number?  I'm not doubting it I'm just curious.  Mine came from WSlogs, which admittedly is probably innacurate, given the drop 3 wipe.
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Some of these replies make it seem like hes asking for an expansion now, he isn't.  Most of the reasons there wont be an xpac next year don't make sense to me. But it is true there wont be an expansion next year, want to know a good reason?
 
Redmoom Rising in summer: I think it should be pretty obvious that redmoon Rising is the Ulduar or ToT of Wildstar, we still need the Entity Strain raid (Early 2016 most likely) then we can get an expansion. So I am predicting a mid 2016 expansion release. What I want
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Next year is as little as 9 days away...
 
Don't know what Ulduar or ToT is, so this is kind of a moot comparison. I assume they were good in your era of WoW experience.
 
An Entity Strain raid most likely releasing in early 2016... Where do people come up with some of this stuff, lol. Seriously, cite your sources. Speculation only begets more speculation. For instance, they will probably delete Aurin and Chuas due to being too far off from Christian values.
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			Redmoon Terror won't be until late 2015 since boss in a box is estimated for summer 2015. There was talks of another secret boss in a box, so we might get 2 bosses in boxes for summer 2015. I just hope to dear god that we're getting Redmoon terror for drop 6 at least. Datascape is pretty good, but it's not so good that I want to raid it for years whether 40 or 20 man. 	
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Redmoon Terror won't be until late 2015 since boss in a box is estimated for summer 2015. There was talks of another secret boss in a box, so we might get 2 bosses in boxes for summer 2015. I just hope to dear god that we're getting Redmoon terror for drop 6 at least. Datascape is pretty good, but it's not so good that I want to raid it for years whether 40 or 20 man. 
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How about we dont do paid expansions.
 
Paid expansions are good for games that have like millions of players and can afford to exploit wallets... you know world of warcraft.	
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How about we dont do paid expansions.
 
Paid expansions are good for games that have like millions of players and can afford to exploit wallets... you know world of warcraft.
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