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Well, I cancelled today. Got Spellslinger to 41 and Stalker to 26. Just couldn't get up the energy to even log in and level to 50 anymore. I'm just not having any fun. I love the IP, the combat, the art style, and the idea, but it just feel flat. I prefer slow leveling games normally, but it needs to feel meaningful, not just a grind for the sake of grinding without any real rewards or goals in sight. At this point I don't feel ANY incentive to continue leveling except to finish the current zone so I can see the next one, which I will probably hate anyways (will probably be another fucking blue-green jungle). I also did not intend to do any raiding and don't really PvP. Maybe that is why I had no goals/objectives, but at least in other games I would look forward to gear sets or weapons or epic quests or new dungeons to tackle etc. Some sort of treadmill or objective to work for. This game just feels like there is nothing worth the grind of dull quests in dull zones. Like even when I see blue quest rewards or blue drops I don't even get an ounce of excitement. I couldn't tell you what half my gear slots are. I also got turned off by the whole "too fucking hardcore for school" approach they decided to take at the 11th hour. I like raiding, and I like challenges, but I do feel there should be systems in place for all types of subscribers and not just your elitist hardcore. It would be like if WoW cut out all raids except hardcore dungeons. Yes 5% of your most vocal population would scream for joy, but the silent majority that just plays without talking or ranting much will bail faster than the bitches on the titanic. And yes it is fun to call people who cannot raid 30+ hours a week filthy casuals to inflate epeens, but in the business sense, it is MMO suicide as Carbine is finding out now. And having super fucking long dungeons is gay as hell. It's one thing to have challenges, or hard modes etc, but I don't even queue for dungeons anymore because I know with the average players, it will probably take 3-4 hours to clear 1 fucking dungeon and I just cannot dedicate a chunk of time like that without pauses and hope that a healer/tank doesn't bail and waste my last 3 hours.
It also doesn't help I don't have a guild either, and maybe I am just getting too old for this shit, but I hate sitting on vent/mumble/ts and talking when my family is around me, and all the guilds on my server require that shit for general use even, not just raids. At least on my older games I was in mature but casual guilds that didn't dedicate tons of hours to raiding, but when they did raid once or twice a week they could get shit done, and didn't require vent unless we were raiding. Anyways, I just can't place my finger on it, but coming from a fairly skilled veteran gamer who just doesn't have the time to dedicate to scheduled raiding anymore, the game just has no real life or mini goals or anything to really aim for. I still have time in the evenings to get on and do shit and feel like I am accomplishing something, but this game does not provide that. And yes, maybe this game isn't for me, which it obviously isn't if I am cancelling, but Carbine is a good bunch of dudes, and I want them to succeed and unfortunately there are many other gamers out there like me who they are losing business from because they do not want to provide a service for us for the sake of The VisionT. Hence why servers are all low pop and they are giving out free trials like candy now. They will backtrack soon I am sure but it will be too little too late at that point. This is a good lesson on why you don't always give the players what they want or listen to your 5% vocal minority.
Hopefully one of these years maybe we will get an MMO that isn't about "raiding" but about the whole game being an equal RPG experience like EQ was. To me my best memories of EQ were leveling and shit that happened while I was leveling. I remember doing raids while leveling up even. Like fucking Vox and Naggy experiencing for the first time when no one knew shit about what to expect except that you gathered up 50 random scrubs and went to slay teh dragon and probably lost 3 levels in the process! And you had fucking player ran bazaars, dungeon camps for rare items that actually felt worthwhile, epic quests, etc etc. Yes I sound like the EQ neckbeards, but this themepark quest grind shit to get to raiding which is 90% of what your game is, isn't even RPG anymore, it is as someone said above, a raiding simulator. That said, I'm going back to FFXIV.
To sum it up, I may be a filthy casual but Wildstar is like a carrot on a stick and they forgot the carrot but they sure have a pretty stick with nice combat. And lots of ball smashing raids if thats all you want out of a game.
It also doesn't help I don't have a guild either, and maybe I am just getting too old for this shit, but I hate sitting on vent/mumble/ts and talking when my family is around me, and all the guilds on my server require that shit for general use even, not just raids. At least on my older games I was in mature but casual guilds that didn't dedicate tons of hours to raiding, but when they did raid once or twice a week they could get shit done, and didn't require vent unless we were raiding. Anyways, I just can't place my finger on it, but coming from a fairly skilled veteran gamer who just doesn't have the time to dedicate to scheduled raiding anymore, the game just has no real life or mini goals or anything to really aim for. I still have time in the evenings to get on and do shit and feel like I am accomplishing something, but this game does not provide that. And yes, maybe this game isn't for me, which it obviously isn't if I am cancelling, but Carbine is a good bunch of dudes, and I want them to succeed and unfortunately there are many other gamers out there like me who they are losing business from because they do not want to provide a service for us for the sake of The VisionT. Hence why servers are all low pop and they are giving out free trials like candy now. They will backtrack soon I am sure but it will be too little too late at that point. This is a good lesson on why you don't always give the players what they want or listen to your 5% vocal minority.
Hopefully one of these years maybe we will get an MMO that isn't about "raiding" but about the whole game being an equal RPG experience like EQ was. To me my best memories of EQ were leveling and shit that happened while I was leveling. I remember doing raids while leveling up even. Like fucking Vox and Naggy experiencing for the first time when no one knew shit about what to expect except that you gathered up 50 random scrubs and went to slay teh dragon and probably lost 3 levels in the process! And you had fucking player ran bazaars, dungeon camps for rare items that actually felt worthwhile, epic quests, etc etc. Yes I sound like the EQ neckbeards, but this themepark quest grind shit to get to raiding which is 90% of what your game is, isn't even RPG anymore, it is as someone said above, a raiding simulator. That said, I'm going back to FFXIV.
To sum it up, I may be a filthy casual but Wildstar is like a carrot on a stick and they forgot the carrot but they sure have a pretty stick with nice combat. And lots of ball smashing raids if thats all you want out of a game.
