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WildStar’s changing its tutorial and character creation
WildStar lead designer Brianna Schneider has penned a lengthy dev blog examining the title's early game improvements. The impending free-to-play conversion will feature a...
One Shots: Quiet grace
When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...
WildStar dev hints at adding path options
Yesterday the WildStar team hosted a Reddit AMA about the new Cosmic Rewards system, and during that conversation one player asked about being able to...
WildStar previews its free-to-play loyalty reward system
Free-to-play games have a rather predictable system in place - you spend money on things and then you have them. Simple and straightforward. WildStar...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 26: Failcom
Justin and Larry discuss WildStar's F2P, Funcom's troubles, Otherland's alpha, Darkfall's soft wipe, Neverwinter's strongholds, and the next iteration of Hellgate.
WildStar beefs up world discoveries
WildStar is rethinking and renovating many of its systems for the upcoming free-to-play update, even small ones like discoveries.
Discoveries are cracked glowy patches in...
WildStar gives free store currency to patch testers
Right now WildStar's free-to-play update is deep into closed beta testing, with one of the hottest new features being the game's upcoming cash shop....
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO futures that never were
One of the things I spend a lot of time thinking about is Operation Unthinkable. For those of you who don't feel like clicking...
WildStar fan vid offers housing flythroughs
If you're curious about WildStar's player housing, or if you're curious about why you should be curious, a recent video published by fansite WildStar...
Gamescom 2015: WildStar F2P beta is now live!
The announcement that WildStar developers Carbine Studios plan to make the MMO the latest addition to our ever-growing free-to-play piles happened a while ago...
Nexus Telegraph: Four things that have me excited about WildStar’s F2P patch
Hot dog! This past week's stress test of the new fall patch for WildStar (it doesn't have a name yet, and Carbine is getting...
Here’s what’s in WildStar’s massive fall patch
Yesterday we reported that WildStar began stress testing its fall free-to-play patch, and since then players have been reporting in with pictures and details...
WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch
WildStar's free-to-play transition is just around the corner, as testing commenced today on the fall patch. The public test realm update includes the new...
World of Warcraft’s Bashiok has defected to NCsoft [Updated]
Former World of Warcraft Community Manager Micah "Bashiok" Whipple announced he was leaving Blizzard last week to take up a new job this week, leading...
Nexus Telegraph: Righting the S.S. WildStar
This past week I got the opportunity to ask a few questions about WildStar's new "stat refactoring" patch that's coming this fall. There were...
NCsoft Q2 2015: Guild Wars 2 is up, WildStar is down
NCsoft has published its second quarter 2015 financial report, and it's basically a repeat of quarter one.
The company attributes its quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year boosts primarily...
WildStar forums compromised by exploit, taken down
If you've been wondering where the WildStar forums have gone, you're probably not the only one. Carbine Studios took to Reddit today to explain...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 23
Justin and Bree discuss Smed's resignation, Project Gorgon, Guild Wars 2's Tempest, Camelot's tribute, SWTOR's Togrutas, and WildStar's stat overhaul, with a buncha mailbag questions on Marvel Heroes.
Why WildStar needs stat refactoring and which stats are on the way out
WildStar has a major stat rebalancing patch on the way -- in fact, it's so major that it needs a whole new term: stat...
Nexus Telegraph: Rethinking WildStar’s challenges
Back when WildStar first launched, there was a rapid evolution of the general community opinion over challenges. Initially there was excitement over these on-the-spot...
