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== Content ==
			
Assuming the art style was adhered to, could Carbine ever put player made items into the game?With Team Fortress 2's long life, (8 years and still profitable) players generate content with external tools at a rate 10x greater than the TF2 dev staff. (ref).  The studio then takes a cut of the microtransactions involved in selling them and the devs are better able to focus on making new maps and game types (capture the flag, king of the hill, etc) instead of focusing too many dev resources on a cash shop. (though it does take staff to review player made items for appropriate art style, I expect it's a lot less costly than a team of devs)e.g., My cousin makes hats and now custom taunts for Team Fortress 2.  Though some of his items are rejected, he gets royalties on accepted items when they are published in the cash shop. If Carbine would adopt similar crowdsourcing of cashshop content, it would free up dev resources for Carbine while still bringing in coin.Maybe start out with weapon skins and animations/poses.  I know a studio like Carbine doesn't have a distributable SDK like Steam, but I can imagine a zipped set of 16 .obj files for each race and sex, poseable in a variety of 3D modelers.  A given races animation would not be greatly hindered by its various body types.  Ditto for weapon skins.
 
Carbine would, of course, review player made items for aesthetics, tone, copyright infringement, obscenity and poly's before loading them into the game.
 	
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			 I think it would be cool to have featured player designed content..  If this game does show up on steam I think it would also be cool if carbine hopped aboard that software program that allows animating game characters and scene design for making animated videos they would be done outside of the game of course.. cant remember what its called.. it would open the flood gates for those that are into making machina videos but they would be wildstar themed.. It would be free advertising if they did something like that. Sadly though I have yet to see an NCsoft title that has player driven content outside of ws housing.. which is something that they should look into in future titles. 	
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			I think that there is some potential there, especially with the game now going to free to play. It works for games like Everquest and Carbine can still make money from player creations. Plus, I'm pretty sure players will be kept happy because they can style their characters to their liking. 	
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