147488-will-there-be-any-content-updates

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Hi, I am a new player coming in around a few weeks ago, so I am not familiar with the pre-free to play issues with the game, but it appears there is a very limited array of content for end-game players.  What is there to do other then Generic Archives or Datascape?
 
It would be great if someone could implement something similar to or along the lines of,
http://camelotherald.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness_Fallsand http://wow.gamepedia.com/Zul'Aman_%28original%29 
 	
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			There's the Y-83 boss box in-between GA and DS, housing, PVP arenas, Warplots, and of course the seasonal stuff if you aren't too 1337.In addition to the very endgame stuff, there's still acquiring your Ability Tier and AMP points (via reputation grind, platinum, or luck), six veteran dungeons for you to Gold, and a bunch of World Bosses to hunt down (which are now quite challenging and have useful drops).Somewhere in-between, you have crafting to master, as well as the cooking hobby. Oh, and alts.​To answer your title question though, yes, additional content is planned for future release.	
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Hi, I am a new player coming in around a few weeks ago, so I am not familiar with the pre-free to play issues with the game, but it appears there is a very limited array of content for end-game players.  What is there to do other then Generic Archives or Datascape?
 
It would be great if someone could implement something similar to or along the lines of,
http://camelotherald.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness_Fallsand http://wow.gamepedia.com/Zul'Aman_%28original%29
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There is no new content but the existing content is not a pushover.  It should provide at least a few months of enjoyment.
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There's a new raid coming early next year at least.
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Timetravel stated on Reddit that the ETA for Redmoon is not early next year.  No new ETA was given.
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He said there wont be any new raid THIS year
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Have you actually cleared that content yet OP?
Cause you'll be at it for a while.	
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His exact quote:
 
"There won't be a new raid tier around New Years."
 
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/3szv63/new_raid/
 
Around New Years implies both before and after.
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i would not consider 28th january (or w/e) around new years. so it can still be in drop 7. if it is not in drop 7 or drop 7 is delayed into spring... thats another story.
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			Feels like he has no idea how good GA and DS are. And how hard. Or he got carried. :P	
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Considering the amount of testing raids need we can assume it will have at the very least 2-3 months of PTR time and given how few Wildstar players do extensive testing on the PTR the time table will certainly increase.  To be honest, early spring is the absolute soonest I would expect to see Redmoon Terror.
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It will be on the PTR for weeks, not months.
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I have asked - got no response.
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/147209-new-raid-tier-delayed/	
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			Yeah, those of us farming DS / progressing Hard mentors wouldn't mind an update at least on the state of the next content drop.
			
				
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It will be on the PTR for weeks, not months.
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I sincerely hope not.  A longer testing period is preferable to waiting for bug fixes on live.  
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I sincerely hope not.  A longer testing period is preferable to waiting for bug fixes on live.  
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I sincerely hope not.  A longer testing period is preferable to waiting for bug fixes on live.  
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If other PTR's are anything to go by, they don't have them up for long.
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We all know that PTR is a preview realm, even when they release early like they did with Augmentors, its either not getting tested or in a state that untestable, even if people report back, the chance that the feedback will be included when they release it on live its very slim.
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quoting from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/3utgqu/love_the_game_but_why_are_carbine_so_quiet/
interpret into it what you want:
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[–]rrauwl 12 points22 hours ago  
Carbine has been hit with some fairly big directives from 'above', and the internal reception is mixed.
Without violating any confidences, I can say that these directives impact the size and scope of certain upcoming content drops. Therefore people are working to redesign the content that they've been working on to fit this new model. Some people are relieved, others are sad. It's a mixed bag.
Hiring continues, both to ramp up for the Eastern release and to get a new Executive Producer. Whoever they get might be able to help shape this re-launch into something more profitable for Carbine, and more fun for us.
Combine all of this with the Winter event, analysis and tweeking of the post-F2P monetisation model, and changes in Community Management after Tony Rey laft... it's no wonder that things are quiet right now.
Let's see how comms are after the Xmas event.
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[–]CRB_Downtown 2 points14 hours ago  There are certainly some theories in here.
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[–]xorpenFlint Fredstone <The Utopia> 2 points11 hours ago  Next raid is a 3man-raid-in-a-box confirmed.
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[–]rrauwl 1 point13 hours ago  Yeah, 'certain' is a word I'd use.
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[–]Reynbou 1 point9 hours ago  I can make up claims without any sources too! :D
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[–]rrauwl 3 points8 hours ago  
At this point, I've told people in advance about the F2P decision, the Asia launch, the performance issues pre-re-launch, etc, etc.
No Carbine employee has ever refuted me, nor will Downtown now, nor will they ever. Because they have the same facts as I do, and they prefer me to be ethical and more vague about what I know than aggressive and specific about what I know.
But as always, believe whatever you want. I've been selfless in my service to this community, I can rest well.
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[–]Reynbou 3 points7 hours ago  k
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[–]Nightmare2828Alfalfa - <World Last> 1 point18 hours ago  anything you can say about raids?
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[–]rrauwl 2 points16 hours ago  Raids fall into the first point about resized content.
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[–]Scotyknows 1 point16 hours ago  One big raid into 2 smaller ones? or like 10man shit?
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[–]rrauwl 3 points16 hours ago  A resizing of content, not of the intended number of raiders.
 
soundsbadman but at least the dev answer on reddit.
			
				
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are you surprised?
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Whelp, that sucks... 
 
Not surprised tho.	
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Why u quoting some random troll?
 
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i just did again, guess i dont learn?
 
he spoke the truth in the past and as i said its free to everyone to interpret what they quote as they like.
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Where i am trolling?
What truth?
Interpret some reddit users(a user whos  history is filled salty post about carbine direction with game) post where he tries to impose a Carbine dev, by whipping a lot of guess work out of his ass.. my interpretation?
Troll or a karmahore, not really worthy of my time..
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I prefer this as the most relevant post in that thread:
 
CRB_Downtown 19 points
20 hours ago
 
Hey, 12Skip-a-few99100!
There's no need for worries or conspiracy theories. We're working on new stuff. I, personally, am currently working on three different features, and I just wrapped one before we all had a long holiday weekend. There are designers sitting in my cube pit who are working on working on other, pretty big pieces of content. New content. For obvious reasons I won't comment on specifics. Some things are coming sooner than others, announcements are coming, etc. Bear in mind it’s the holidays, and you’re already expecting Winterfest while amid a streak of events big and small.
 
Developers are pretty busy devving. (That’s a word, right?)
 
Regarding those highly-specific questions used as examples: Because (the royal) you don’t always get the answers you want doesn’t mean the questions are being disregarded. That’s not an adversarial statement, by the way. Hands are frequently tied. Maybe the answer you’re seeking is still being finalized. Maybe the feature you’re demanding isn’t ready for prime time yet, and/or maybe there’s another one ahead of it in the pipe. Maybe devs (Carbine) are keeping quiet about some things, because there’s a larger PR/Community (NCSoft) plan in place, and devs don’t want to disrupt it. There are pragmatic reasons for why the metaphorical cat is kept in the bag, and it varies from situation to situation.
And, as you know, sometimes we speak freely, and others we speak maybe too freely. (I have a chronic condition known as the F!@#$-Its.)
 
That said: I empathize with you, both as a WildStar player and a developer who wants to be as inclusive as possible with WildStar players. Do I wish we could give out information earlier? Yeah—sometimes, and not just because I think we’re working on some kickass stuff I’m excited about. I’d like for you to see the road ahead in, say, January, even though it’s not yet December(!). But, A, that’s not up to the devs, and B, sometimes at the end of the day I’d rather we be conservative about making promises instead of making a billion of them and amending them constantly as circumstances change. The biz is rife with the latter, you know?
 
At any rate, stay tuned, and remain passionate and inquisitive about all things WildStar. (I’m very pleased you’re enjoying the game, and thank you for standing by us.) News and new stuff are coming! Really. In the meantime, Carbine devs (designers, engineers, and artists, to name a few dev disciplines) and Community members will continue to do the best we can to answer your questions and alleviate concerns.
 
We're still progressing in DS, but I do hope to hear news about what's coming next soon :)
			
				
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Yet here you are posting about it.
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Welp, that's all I needed to hear.
 
Any time an unfounded source posts that WildStar is doomed, I have no choice but to believe it. DED GAEM IS DED.
 
Who wants my stuff?	
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Welp, that's all I needed to hear.
 
Any time an unfounded source posts that WildStar is doomed, I have no choice but to believe it. DED GAEM IS DED.
 
Who wants my stuff?
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Welp, that's all I needed to hear.
 
Any time an unfounded source posts that WildStar is doomed, I have no choice but to believe it. DED GAEM IS DED.
 
Who wants my stuff?
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Welp, that's all I needed to hear.
 
Any time an unfounded source posts that WildStar is doomed, I have no choice but to believe it. DED GAEM IS DED.
 
Who wants my stuff?
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Augmentors was tested over the course of a few weeks by at least two guilds (Enigma and Codex) and a lot of the feedback provided was taken into account.
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Why is everyone interpreting what the guy posted as doom and gloom.
 
One says the directives from above have been taken both positively and negatively by the devs (so neutral?). Possibly just a shorter T3 raid?
 
The second one says they are hiring more people.
 
And thirdly, they'll be tweaking the f2p model, which could mean things like account wide mounts from the shop.
 
I dunt see any glooms.	
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Who wants my stuff?
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That's cause none of the Drops released so far contained any bugs.
Sure, there were a few undocumented features in there, but no bugs.
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Timetravel stated on Reddit that the ETA for Redmoon is not early next year.  No new ETA was given.
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"Works as designed". "Works as coded."
 
Maybe they'll break up RM into "wings", like other MMOs do. E.g. for Datascape, they could have held it back for another month or two at WildStar's release, then kept the door after SD closed for another two weeks, then open the three wings one by one over a span of 2 months.
 
It give the illusion of new content releasing more frequently, while also buying a few more weeks to polish the locked away sections without pulling the rug out from progressing guilds.
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Splitting up new raids into wings and releasing it progressively seems like a great idea! Waiting until a whole raid tier is complete reminds me of the infuriating way some devs patch their games. We have this fix (or content in this case) ready to go but we're just gonna hold onto it until this other content is finished to release it all in a bigger patch for some stupid reason. As has been said it does make players feel like there is more content coming more often with a split.
 
Like it also wouldn't make any sense to me if Carbine had a new dungeon ready to go but they were waiting to release it with the raid content. In MMO's and the way players chew through content isn't it better to release smaller content updates more often?	
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Splitting up new raids into wings and releasing it progressively seems like a great idea! Waiting until a whole raid tier is complete reminds me of the infuriating way some devs patch their games. We have this fix (or content in this case) ready to go but we're just gonna hold onto it until this other content is finished to release it all in a bigger patch for some stupid reason. As has been said it does make players feel like there is more content coming more often with a split.
 
Like it also wouldn't make any sense to me if Carbine had a new dungeon ready to go but they were waiting to release it with the raid content. In MMO's and the way players chew through content isn't it better to release smaller content updates more often?
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