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

NCsoft 4Q 2016: Record sales, WildStar’s fate, Lineage Eternal launch

Bree Royce - February 7, 2017 94

On the surface, fourth quarter 2016 financials for MMORPG giant NCsoft look solid. Yesterday, the company released its investor report, highlighting hefty year-over-year and...

The Daily Grind: Have any 2017 previews sucked you back into MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - February 1, 2017 14

One thing I look forward to at the start of every year is seeing all of the producer's letters, states of the game, and...

Jukebox Heroes: Live performances of MMO scores

Justin Olivetti - January 25, 2017 0

I am of the opinion that there is something special and magical about getting to experience music in person, especially so when it is...

If I had known then what I know now, I... would have felt no different, really, but it might have mitigated stuff.

WildStar explains shift in dungeon reward philosophy

Justin Olivetti - January 25, 2017 0

Don't look now, but WildStar has incited an underground revolution involving its dungeon reward philosophy. In the upcoming Power of the Primal Matrix update,...

WildStar takes you on a tour of its two new instances

Justin Olivetti - January 24, 2017 0

Struggling though it may be, WildStar is still dreaming big -- and designing big as well. The team is working hard to test and...

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most unclear futures in 2017

Eliot Lefebvre - January 19, 2017 1

A little while back, I took a look at the healthiest games in the MMO space at this time. That was a nice, uplifting...

There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - January 12, 2017 0

Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs. "Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Homestead player housing blew my mind

Larry Everett - January 11, 2017 0

I usually like to bury my opinion behind a bit of measured fact-checking and the weight of opposing opinions, but Elder Scrolls Online hit...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 99: Landmark goes into the dark

Justin Olivetti - January 10, 2017 0

Justin and Bree discuss Landmark, Trove, Asheron's Call, WoW, FFXIV, WildStar, Hi-Rez, and Ashes of Creation before dipping into the mailbag to speculate on Daybreak's future.

Carbine previews WildStar’s Primal Matrix horizontal advancement, defends ‘massive’ scope

Bree Royce - January 9, 2017 0

WildStar kicked off 2017 with a bang last week with the reveal of the Power of the Primal Matrix update, a "massive" endgame update...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and wishes for MMORPGs in the new year

Bree Royce - January 5, 2017 0

One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It's way...

I'm not sure if Wildstar had any casual content, by extension.

WildStar’s next major update opens up new progression past the level cap

Eliot Lefebvre - January 4, 2017 0

If you've been playing WildStar for a while, your character is probably at level 50. It's quite possible you have multiple characters at level...

You might think it's easier when the only version of the game that exists is one with unrealized potential, but it's not.

WildStar kicks off the Battle Chase on January 6

Eliot Lefebvre - January 3, 2017 0

The Darkspur Cartel is not one of the player factions in WildStar. Strictly speaking, it has no skin in the game and doesn't care...

Global Chat: The Standing Stone standoff

Justin Olivetti - January 3, 2017 0

Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...

THIS IS NOT FINE! THERE WAS NO REASON TO LET IT GO THIS LONG OR GET THIS BAD!

WildStar drops a late-year teaser

Justin Olivetti - January 2, 2017 0

What's Carbine Studios hinting at? The WildStar developer dropped "a mysterious message" from Drusera, the game's iconic AI, on Twitter this past Friday. "You have...