148842-plz-carbine-make-wildstar-available-on-steamfor-the-win

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This is another Wildstar will do fantastically on Steam thread
 
With out doubt it would be a success.  I hope they announce it in the next drop.
			
				
	Edited January 11, 2016 by Parks	
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			minus the cost it brings for NCSoft	
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minus the cost it brings for NCSoft
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I do think Steam would be a good idea as it has helped a good few MMO's bring in players. Trove and Tera spring to mind as just two who benefited from there games being on Steam, actually Tera was that much of a success for en masse that Gameforge had to get involved as it was allegedly pulling players away from there version of Tera.  Of course it had nothing to do with the fact Gameforge is a horrid company and I wouldn't touch another MMO under there control in a million years.
 
But does NCSoft have any games on steam? I haven't checked and if they don't my guess is they dislike someone else taking a slice of the pie and want it all to themselves, the problem with this is they do not see the bigger picture of how beneficial it would be.  But for me I think it would be worthwhile as it would bring in quite a few players, my only issue is I don't think there megaserver technology can handle a large influx of players as right now on Entity Exile side it feels like its teetering on the brink. So they would need to get something in place so the debacle of f2p launch doesnt happen again. 	
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Steam will be NCsoft's last 'ace in the hole' with this game, the last opportunity they'll get to flash it front of peoples faces again. With that in mind the game needs to be as good as it's gonna be otherwise the same thing will happen which happened at release, and at free to play; people will come to play and then leave when they realise the game has no staying power. It'll probably take another year or two until it's up to WoW standard.
 
I predict that this game will eventually release on Steam, (it's already in the DB) greater mmos like heavensward and even ESO are already on Steam so there's no shame in doing so.	
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it will probaly increase the playerbase by quite a lot, say it increases by 20%, despite steam taking almost 1/3rd of the revenue I'd say its "free" marketing being on steam and it would outweight the fee to Valve. Even games like Neverwinter manages the cost of steam and it has brought in players for their game, which Wildstar is in need of, at least for pvp side of things, but before they do this steam launch they should have worked out most of the pressing issues, for example the extreme botting going on currently.
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minus the cost it brings for NCSoft
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