102387-dear-wildstar

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You are FANTASTIC.
 
Now admittedly, on the live servers I haven't gotten too far- my highest level character is what, like twenty? Twenty two tops. It's pretty low. That doesn't matter though, I've seen most of the game on other accounts, and I love the vibrant, colourful world that's been built here. I'm a sucker for Aurin, I'll admit, but all the races here are fantastic to the point where I'm greatly saddened that I don't have enough character slots to make one of each race on the server I picked. Oh well, I'll make due.
 
That said, I'm cancelling my subscription for now.
 
This, as should be obvious, is not a post about how Wildstar sucks. It doesn't. I love this game, it's SO COOL and I'd love to work on an MMO like it someday. However, all the awesomeness that the game has sadly doesn't match up against one, glaring problem:
My computer essentially can't run it.
Okay sure it starts and it goes, but I have to have every setting as low as possible, I get about five frames a second at best, and (I kid you not) I keep a block of ice on top of part of the computer to stop it from overheating.
 
I don't have a good computer. It's a laptop that I picked up for school about two years ago- admittedly, it was for a game design school so it's essentially a budget gaming laptop, but it's already starting to show its age. It ran skyrim fine even if I had to keep a fan pointed at it, and it was great for running UDK and Unity, but Wildstar?
 
Trying to run Wildstar on this thing is like winding up a pair of those novelty clattering teeth and setting them on a 100 meter sprint. It'll run and it'll do the job eventually, but you'll be waiting a long, long time.
 
I look forward to coming back to Wildstar. I really do. I've seen it on better computers, and as soon as I realized that it could be summed up as "if Pixar re-imagined Firefly", I was sold. It also helps that I'm a total nerd for exploration and climbing, and Wildstar has all the tools in the world for that, from sprinting and double jumping up to the crazy movement spells that each class has- You give me an engineer with T8 Urgent Withdrawal and a hoverboard, and I'll get to pretty much any location in the game, and 9 times out of 10 it'll be bypassing the correct way to get there. I LOVE that stuff, and I adore that Wildstar makes it possible.
 
So fare thee well, Wildstar! I'm sad that I have to leave, but since I essentially can't play the game on my absolute toaster of a computer, I really have no choice. Please hang in there, continue to smooth out those launch issues, and still be there when I get a better machine!
 
Much love!	
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			While I'm not sure what the point of this thread is, good luck to you.  I build computers, so if you set a budget I can probably tell you what to order.  It's almost always cheaper when looking at gaming PCs.	
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			Hate it for you. Not having the horsepower is definitely frustrating. We'll still be here when you get your better machine, so definitely come back and check us out again!	
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