111035-akaavus-white-knight-first-post

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I know this is my first post of the forums (I plan on posting more), but seeing as I know the toxicity of the online gaming community I figured I'd title my post appropriately.I'm in love with this game. In fact I'd give my left nut to work at Carbine because I love this game so much. I finally got my girlfriend to buy it and we both have a blast. We're both on the RP server, Evindra, and while I realize pops are kinda low lately (and they're covering that in the main thread) I just want to say that I still love this game.
 
A lot....a LOT of people are really outspoken about criticisms, and logically so. They have their reasons to be disappointed in certain content and I know different people come to different games for different reasons. That being said, I'm hoping that by making this post I might find people who shared the same inclinations I did when jumping into Wildstar. I tried to play SWTOR. And while the "story" was pretty cool at times there was hardly a game there, and it was more or less a WoW reskin. Guild Wars 2 was the MMO I played the most for the last 2 years, until I began to hear news about this game. When I first saw the trailer, I was in love. It had a nice exaggerated art style in a world of OMGGRUNGYREALGRAFIX, it did toon style right, as opposed to SWTOR, it had a rich world, an amazing art team, and such attention to detail in the animation that I thought "whoa this might be awesome."Then the DevSpeaks started, and I got even more infatuated. The sense of humor, the fun, the lightheartedness, and all the open-ness with the community really sold the devs to me from the first time I saw them. It helped that I got to know a good friend who worked at Carbine until moving to Riot eventually, but I still would have loved the game just the same.Simply speaking, this is my damned game.For the longest time I've been wanting a game with fun worlds to explore, awesome art direction, lots of color, great mechanics, and a different playstyle than I was used to. Not only did I lose my shit when I first got on Nexus and realized the Spellslinger was everything I had wished the smuggler in SWTOR had been, but the more I quested and more I learned about the world and its lore, about Drusera and the Eldan, and the rest of the game, I just flipped. My love of scifi contributed heavily to this, as SWTOR was the only other one I had tried. My girlfriend can attest to my obsession with the game, following all the devstreams, following the progressions, and even getting some of my questions answered by the devs as well in two different streams!I just want to say, it's easy to let the repetitive nature of not only life, but gaming get in the way of enjoying something that has so much heart in it. Not only is the art team and animation team above and beyond even first party games in my opinion (given that the attention to detail in the character animations and all of the amazing 2D principals used just rock my socks), but the music is just god-tier (Thank you for Jeff Kurtenacker), I've spent gajillions of hours in housing, and it was near impossible to go back to other games without feeling limited in movement. Where is my sprint? Where is my double jump? Where is my vertical scaling? My anti gravity? My shiphand quests? WHERE'S MY HOUSING?!The questing is standard MMO questing, sometimes you gotta take a break. I love exploring the world and doing the path quests, visting people's houses, and seeing each new zone and piece of story as the fight between Drusera and Entity continues.The fact remains, Wildstar is the MMO I always wanted. And while the population issues and other complaints have been the loudest, I wanted to throw just ONE more post into the mix praising this game for what it DOES do, as opposed to what it doesn't. I hope to find more players through this post that I can quest with on the Evindra server, more people to fanboy/girl/whatever about the game, and more people to hopefully keep the game alive. It is deeply saddening to me that in this world of things being very same-y, that this game that took a chance, did things different, and put so much love into it could possibly crash on me.I don't care if I'm the last player on the server, they can't take Nexus from me. Even if the game goes F2P I'll find a way.Thanks, Carbine, for making a game I've wanted for a long time, and for giving it the attention I had hoped you would. No matter who rages, I'm always going to be sitting here looking at the time spent in this game fondly, and hopefully in the future with my lady as well. Call it a call to arms, call it a last request, call it whatever you want, but I'm happy this game is out there, and I'm happy it did what it did.This has been a white knight post, thanks for the read.tl;dr I just really really really really really like this game okay?	
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			Thank you for being honest about the colour of your underwear in the title of this post.	
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			     You reading my mind dude? This is almost my story on winding up at Wildstar :) Played EQ, CoH, WoW  and still on SWTOR (But only logged in to try the housing and that is just meh.) (  I shot myself halfway across Carrick Station while mounted. derpderp Forgot how fast movement is on max mount) Suffering severe alt-itus having to sample class/race/faction combos and mainly going with Chua engineer and a medic or 2. The combat is so different and fast and fun I want to try pvp even tho usually hate it. I read every journal and the 3 or 4 Tales I've found (Thanks Wildstarwikia for big helps with the Derradune ones!  ) plus the Scientist stuff adds up to a much deeper and creepier story than what is on the surface.  Then there's housing and I'm so constantly broke trying to even get a start on a cool plot like the ones on the player streams. The look, feel and sounds of the few zones I've been in are just awesome imo.      The Carbine streams are very nifty and seems to have forced SWTOR and WoW to get into the act. Frost and Tony are just more fun than the others imo and loads of info in there if just pay a little attention (GJ getting questions in :D  ) The shouting of the masses did cause shake and wake at the studio tho since there have been a bunch of posts from all kinda sources, lots of fixes and tons more on the way. A big shout out to J-Tal for his  "Let's do this" attitude and has posted a book on all the rune stuff and other itemization he's been working on. The mostly positive feedback from there seems to have allowed other devs to poke their heads out and post and not get flamed on. ( Hey Merkhal?  You can play to, lotsa peace from warriors lately and medics almost ready for a "Show your Medic" post... almost ;)    ))       Happily overpulling and getting teleported to new and scenic graveyards across Avatus! Cheers and see ya on Nexus sometime :)	
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