134708-first-experiences-with-f2p-wildstar

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Oh boy,oh boy,oh boy where to start.
 
Lets start with, I was bored, I heard that Wildstar went F2P. I played a bit in the beta but wasn't sure about getting it, so i was angled into getting gw2 by a close friend of mine. Anyway, so i go on the site and download the client. total download of patches and the game...about 2 hours give or take a 1/2 hour or so, but around there if not more. Then I go to log on...servers are down, well i mean that's fine but lil fishy that a maintenance happens a couple of days after the release of the f2p version. oh well. so I left for a few hours, spend some time with the family, eat some dinner and come back. I get in finally, create a character, click enter world......nothing.....still nothing. so I tried a few more times thinking "It might just be a bug or something, maybe trying it again will fix itself". Spent about 1 hours doing that. I left it for a bit talked with some friends played another game, felt pretty good after a great fun game. Come back and try again after about....i wanna say an hour or so, and I am stuck face to face with the que. I wouldn't mind a small que with it being released on free to play only a few days ago, but i was in that que for 3 hours straight if not more because there being only 2 servers in general, stuck watching videos and talking to my friends while they were playing another game, scared to join them because if i close this i might loose my spot. Finally get past the que and low and behold the character creation bug persists.
 
Lets just say that my first experience with this game is very, very, very,VERY negative. I would have thought a lot more time and effort would go into a game like this if it wishes to compete with the big boys of Final fantasy and even WoW, but it's kind of hard when the first DAY let alone hour of someone "new" coming into the game is spent looking at loading or que screens. The first hour or so is the most important for a F2P game to keep people interested and this I am afraid has failed in my book. I should have listened to my friends that said this was a bad idea, but I didn't listen.
 
Just my thoughts on the matter.	
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			So you hop on the freeway to go to the mall during rush hour, and get stuck in traffic. You finally get to the mall, and find out it is crowded. Ultimately, the mall sucks. Makes sense.	
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So you hop on the freeway to go to the mall during rush hour, and get stuck in traffic. You finally get to the mall, and find out it is crowded. Ultimately, the mall sucks. Makes sense.
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Analogies are a pretty bad way to divert actual criticism.
 
Carbine knew months in advance that there would be a huge spike in traffic today, and yet they apparently did nothing to prepare.
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So you hop on the freeway to go to the mall during rush hour, and get stuck in traffic. You finally get to the mall, and find out it is crowded. Ultimately, the mall sucks. Makes sense.
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This analogy makes no sense. Carbine owns the quality of their relaunch. It's 100% under their control. A mall doesn't control the freeway. Plus in your analogy you actually make it to the mall, the OP still hasn't made it into the game.
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Wow...
 
I'd break the analogy down into simpler terms, but I'm busy crafting. Maybe later...
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			I'm glad to see everyone is having issues with the Launch mostly so far.....why? Because the problems will get sorted one way or another, complaining is good, it sends feedback (i hope).	
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No you got schooled and had no good response.  
 
Seriously though...I had the same issues but after getting in was disappointed.  This game is terrible.  I have not left the starting zone but already lost interest.  You need to capture your audience early...with 5,000 other new F2P games (or high production pay to play games) combined with a preference for quick easy fun you have about 30 minutes to get us hooked or we will move on and find other ways to waste our time without ever looking back.  Overall bad experience from the start and doubtful that I will come back.
 
Sorry to the dev team, I wish you the best but you really need to be original (or at least fun) to make people leave their other addictions.  
 
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Actually I didn't get schooled because I'm playing fine having a good time, while you couldnt even get past the starting zone.
 
See you next week.
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Then why are you on the forums? 
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Haha, I was wondering the same myself.  If they were so enthralled with the game I highly doubt they'd be constantly alt-tabbing away from it.  :lol:
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Multi-tasking...
 
like I said....Wow...	
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People will defend this game to the end of the earth, its a disturbing mental trait...
 
If your electricity or ISP went down will you sit there saying "oh well everything is fine they are doing the best they can" or would you phone them and ask wtf is going on, possibly kick up a fuss?
 
What is it that makes gamers so utterly complacent? Do you guys think they will read this and send you some pixel reward for your loyalty?
 
Fix the game and reimburse or compensate those that have subbed 
			
				
	Edited October 1, 2015 by Efour	
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People will defend this game to the end of the earth, its a disturbing mental trait...
 
If your electricity or ISP went down will you sit there saying !oh well everything is fine they are doing the best they can! or would you phone them and ask wtf is going on, possibly kick up a fuss?
 
What is it that makes gamers so utterly complacent? Do you guys think they will read this and send you some pixel reward for your loyalty.
 
Fix the game and reimburse or compensate those that have subbed 
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If your electricity or ISP went down will you sit there saying "oh well everything is fine they are doing the best they can" or would you phone them and ask wtf is going on, possibly kick up a fuss?
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What this guy says is completely valid, its a really terrible experience what he just described, i would have raged so bad in his pants, seriously you get to enter after 3 *cupcake*ing hours only to be stuck in character creation?????, thats a damn good reason to say *cupcake* it and uninstall the game if i ever heard one, now you have to wait another 3 *cupcake*ing hours to try again, no matter what you say that is just outrageous.
 
TC if it makes you feel better the lag wouldnt have let you play anyways if you could have entered seriously, only a few hours ago the game become playable but before that was LAG simulator at its finest.	
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Look, you can defend Carbine all you want, and you'll be slighlt right - all launches have some issues. But most of the time those end at long queues or some feature not working, not at game being unplayable. But hey, from what I remember Wildsar devs were decent ones, so let's hope it'll get fixed now that they have real life data.
 
But you also should not pretend issues are not real. A lot of people coming to game right now has some previous experience with it, be it from beta, guest or older subscriber. And they are willing to put up with some issues because they know what to expect and like game enough to suffer trough issues. Problem lies with new players. From their point of view game has no redeeming qualities (because they did not manage to see any) and so far does not even allow them to play. So why stick around banging your head against a wall not knowing when it'll be possible to play normally game that did not manage to appeal to them yet?
 
Yes, first experience is terrible, and yes, there is not much of a point in complaining because it's not getting issues fixed any faster. But some people just want to get it off their chests. And pretending issues are not real only shows new and returning players that community of old players is so blinded by their love for the game thet they couldn't see any issue even if it stabbed them trough the eye.	
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Well, it seems the recent patch, patched the character creator bug. I'm happy it got fixed, but there are probably hundreds if not thousand of people that gave up and uninstalled already because of the launch. Just for future references they should really take better care of the launches when it comes to bigger patches later on.
 
Edit: Ok it seems that character creation is fine, but with the amount of people finally getting in it seems the starting area is just loading screen then it kicks me back to the character selection screen. Meh I can see this happening. 1 big bug gets fixed and now everyone is playin it at the same time. I'll get back to this if it changes at all
			
				
	Edited October 1, 2015 by Gwuee-tastic	
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If your electricity or ISP went down will you sit there saying "oh well everything is fine they are doing the best they can" or would you phone them and ask wtf is going on, possibly kick up a fuss?
 
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Shit happens, I make a cup of tea and do something else. Go outside, chat with the neighbors continue reading my book(s) or whatever else I have laying around the house. It'll resolve itself within a reasonable timespan in general, so no point in freaking out. If it were to last a few days I'd be more peefed when it comes to electricity, but a game? Hardly worth fretting over.
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			LAGS, maintenance, LAGS, maintenance and so on.... generally great launch.	
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