132485-forum-access-for-free-to-play

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In the spirit of building and growing the WildStar community, we will not be restricting forum access when free-to-play launches on September 29. The free-to-play transition means that anyone that has an NCSOFT account will be able to log into WildStar and play, and that same freedom will extend to posting on the forums.
 
The influx of new players means that the forums are going to be much busier overall, and we already have plans to scale our resources to match. While we do have the ability to turn some knobs and flip some levers in the future to scale back forum access should the need arise, we hope that an open forum experience matching an open game experience will result in an open and supportive forum community.
 
If you do ever have a situation to report to our moderators please click on the “Report” link in the respective post, and our Moderator team will verify your report. Also, we’re looking forward to your feedback on how to continue improving the forum experience, and can’t wait to see our Community members, new ones as well as our veterans, assisting each other and helping to guide new forum participants in the finer points of… forum-ing.
 
Thanks!
 
Team WildStar	
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			That's good to hear. I think it's better that everyone is able to come in and discuss the game, rather than having a bunch of people feel left out. :)	
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			The last time we had large numbers of players using the forums, there were huge slowdowns (particularly during game downtime when everyone came here for information). Have things been done to address this as well? Is that what you meant by plans to scale resources? Because I could read that as either more hardware or more mods, and I'd be happier if it meant All of the above.	
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			Thank you for not restricting the forums for f2p players!! The forums are a great place for information and meetings others. TWildstar has a great community and I love that our new friends will be able to interact with us here!!	
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glad we are opening the forums to all the players! Will make for more open and varied feedback and contribution! 
 
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			Nothing like flooding the forums with the opinions of people who don't even pay to play the game.  At least make it clear that they don't pay for the game under their name or something.	
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Nothing like flooding the forums with the opinions of people who don't even pay to play the game.  At least make it clear that they don't pay for the game under their name or something.
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we wanted a united community not a toxic one and doing something like that would lead to very bad stuff on the forums...we don't need that 
 
lets not do anything that makes people feel unwelcome to the game (any game really) that just leads to leaving and word of month causing people to stay away. Even if people don't like the new model its coming and so are the players. Lets show the gaming world that one game and one community can be different then others that have gone Free to play yea?
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			I'm sure they don't care even if you are giving them money.	
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In the spirit of building and growing the WildStar community, we will not be restricting forum access when free-to-play launches on September 29. The free-to-play transition means that anyone that has an NCSOFT account will be able to log into WildStar and play, and that same freedom will extend to posting on the forums.
 
The influx of new players means that the forums are going to be much busier overall, and we already have plans to scale our resources to match. While we do have the ability to turn some knobs and flip some levers in the future to scale back forum access should the need arise, we hope that an open forum experience matching an open game experience will result in an open and supportive forum community.
 
If you do ever have a situation to report to our moderators please click on the “Report” link in the respective post, and our Moderator team will verify your report. Also, we’re looking forward to your feedback on how to continue improving the forum experience, and can’t wait to see our Community members, new ones as well as our veterans, assisting each other and helping to guide new forum participants in the finer points of… forum-ing.
 
Thanks!
 
Team WildStar
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			I can't connect to the serv, but the launcher works, so i don't really know what should i do. Can someone give me some help ?	
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It is a good thing, and only appropriate that you have opened the forum to all players.
Thank you
 
The bad thing is that now even I can post here. :P
 
Oh well... Change always comes with a price attached...	
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I know this isn't part of this forum, but I am having problems downloading the game. it keeps giving me an error or bringing up a web page saying this site can not be viewed. if anyone could help me on this, that would be great.
 
 
for the record korex, I paid for the game too.	
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Nothing like flooding the forums with the opinions of people who don't even pay to play the game.  At least make it clear that they don't pay for the game under their name or something.
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Nothing like flooding the forums with the opinions of people who don't even pay to play the game.  At least make it clear that they don't pay for the game under their name or something.
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So got patched this morning with dreams of finally getting to play me some Wildstar after the F2P fiasco. 
 
Now I'm getting the same issues as the rest of you fine people. I keep getting redirected to the character selection page. I have been on, since the first Beta testing and I have to ask what happened? 
 
 
 
Did they get rid of their software QA department or did management push the F2P before it was ready? 
 
 
 
To say the least, I for one am less than thrilled with the game right now.	
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			Yippee the RMT spam begins. Please tell me you're hiring more moderators since it appears Chillia is gone as well.	
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			You may need to temporarily implement some stricter limitations. Perhaps requiring several posts prior to a user being able to create a thread. An alternative could be a strict limit to the number of posts a free user may make upon initially registering an account. So as to disable their capability to spam.	
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Okay if you really think that will cause problems then make a separate forum section for f2p players.  If you aren't giving carbine your money they don't care what you have to say.
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			You are welcome, just like any community you shouldn't take the complaints of a few as the feelings of the whole. Stake your claim and make your home here if you're having fun.	
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You are welcome, just like any community you shouldn't take the complaints of a few as the feelings of the whole. Stake your claim and make your home here if you're having fun.
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			I will say this, my fears about forums getting huge slowdowns with a ton of people slamming them during downtimes have been abated.	
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I just wanted to say, what a GREAT job you guys are doing!
Always updated, was super easy to find all info, and you guys are thinking of every question that might be asked in situations!
Im just so happy that you guys are so serious and makes the game even better.
 
Thanks again!
 	
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*snip*
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			What great job? I have a character on Warhound(PVP) that will not load. I choose to enter the game and the load on screen continues for more than 20 minutes, this has been happening for 48 hours now. I try to reload and another 20 minute wait. The only other realm available, that I have 6 character on,  has a 56 minute wait that never seems to end. I am SO glad I decided not to pay anymore. On top of that the website will not let me submit a ticket. (Yes I did sign into my account.) I seem to be the only one having this trouble as I see no one else talking about it. I am starting to HATE this game.	
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			These kind of problems happen with every launch, expansion, or major update of every MMO ever in the history of MMOs. Nothing is ever perfect at launch and if you think it should be, you have an unrealistic view of the complexity involved in getting a product like this to ship even in it's current condition. If you can't tough it out then go play Hearthstone for a couple weeks then come back. 	
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Nothing like flooding the forums with the opinions of people who don't even pay to play the game.  At least make it clear that they don't pay for the game under their name or something.
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