wildstar

Official Site: WildStar
Studio: Carbine Studios/NCsoft
Launch Date: June 3, 2014
Genre: Sci-Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: F2P as of September 2015
Platform: PC

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018

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With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold...
I don't choose spiders.

Choose My Adventure Year in Review: Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WildStar, Black Desert, and Neverwinter

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So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...
IN EXCELSIUS MOUNT CLOTHES

Massively OP’s Winter Holiday 2017 guide!

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It's that time of year again where the airwaves of certain radio stations are clogged with the same songs from the 1950s, television broadcasts...

Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Best MMO Housing of 2017

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Housing, which was awarded to WildStar last year. MMORPGs eligible for this award can...
So secretive!

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review

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Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...

Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online

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All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?

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One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
Sorry, guy.

WildStar has a fun-filled December in store for you

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House renovations, crass commercialization, and (XP) explosions are all in store for WildStar players this December. Carbine posted its December DevConnect preview today, sharing a...
Alas and alack.

WildStar teases Black Friday deals

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Shh, don't tell NCsoft that WildStar is still operating! If we're all good and still, then the closure-happy studio might overlook this struggling-but-fun MMO....

NCsoft Q3 2017: Lineage M drives record profits, Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire isn’t too shabby either

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NCsoft had an exceptionally good third financial quarter this year, reaching a record high in sales and operating profit for the company, and it's...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
Yep.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back

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Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
The joke here is that the dungeons for this game were miserable slogs.

WildStar, Blade and Soul, Aion, and Lineage II come under DDoS attacks

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Hackers launched an offensive against NCsoft yesterday, targeting several of the company's MMORPGs in a series of DDoS attacks. WildStar, Aion, Lineage II, and...
things are going great

WildStar patches in Primetime and preps November booster events

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The most recent patch for WildStar is Primetime, and it is indeed all about making it the time for Prime. The Genetic Archives raid...
Community organization is painful.

Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition

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Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
Full of sound and fury. Sadly.

PSA: WildStar is giving out free level 50 characters in preparation for next week’s raid

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Time to skip over all of that meaty, pesky leveling content and enjoy an express pass to the endgame in WildStar... if that is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts

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Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO rules at Halloween events?

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I'm almost never happier in MMORPGs than when October rolls around. There's so much moodiness and festivities revolving around Halloween, thanks to developers' undying...

Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?

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Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing. "I once again wonder why...
Some day, I will be good about screenshots. That day is not today.

Choose My Adventure: Map-based antics in Guild Wars 2

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One of the points of the polls and discussions for Guild Wars 2 the other week was that while I could focus on either...

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