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

WildStar starts testing free-to-play patch

Justin Olivetti - August 4, 2015 40

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]

Bree Royce - August 3, 2015 125

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

Justin Olivetti - August 1, 2015 220

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

Bree Royce - July 31, 2015 144

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...

Windows 10 and your favorite MMORPGs

Bree Royce - July 30, 2015 188

If you're upgrading to Windows 10 this week, congratulations! You're brave! You might be in for a week of tech headaches and busted games! Tech support across...

WildStar forums compromised by exploit, taken down

Justin Olivetti - July 29, 2015 28

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 Olivetti - July 28, 2015 17

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.

Perfect Ten: MMO fan fashion scenes

Justin Olivetti - July 23, 2015 37

For some of us, having the best gear -- stat-wise -- isn't a driving force for playing MMOs. Now, the best-looking gear? That's a...

Why WildStar needs stat refactoring and which stats are on the way out

Bree Royce - July 22, 2015 52

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

Justin Olivetti - July 18, 2015 32

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...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 22

Justin Olivetti - July 14, 2015 33

Justin and Bree discuss Trove's launch, Skyforge's early access, Star Citizen criticism, RaiderZ's sunset, SWTOR's halt to raids, and The Secret World's big grouping push, with mailbag questions on player frustration with WoW's Draenor content drop-off.