Category: WildStar News

WildStar’s Chad Moore has penned the latest State of the Game letter on the official site, the first since the announcement regarding the game’s move to Steam. Moore first announces that he is now the Game Director on WildStar and is the man in charge of leading the game into the future.

WildStar players hoping to score some awesome loot will want to check out the Dungeon Chase that is set to begin on February 10th and run through February 18th. Completing dungeons will see players earn “Small Game Scraps” that can be exchanged for “Big Game Bucks” used to buy limited tim housing plot decor.

The latest Enemies & Allies article has been published on the WildStar site, this time starring the leaders of the Dominion and Exiles, Commander Toric Antevian and Queen Myala Everstar.

Yes, WildStar is coming to Steam in the first half of 2016…but wait there is more! Okay, now that we have the Steam thing out of the way, what the heck is going on with WildStar?

The bad news for WildStar keeps piling in. Following on from news of an atrocious financial forecast from Korean investment firm KDB Daewoo Securities, alleged former employees of Carbine Studios have been recounting their own experiences in a NeoGAF thread, including accusations of inexperienced management and significantly flawed development procedures.

The largest investment bank in Korea is predicting that NCSoft’s stable of games will have had a fantastic year overall, but that Carbine Studios’ WildStar did and will continue to struggle for survival even after a free-to-play conversion in late 2015. Daewoo Securities has published its estimate for the results of the forthcoming 2015 investor report to be revealed later in Q1 2016.

Are we witnessing the slow death spiral of WildStar, or the start of a new beginning? In this week’s column, Gareth Harmer chimes in with his opinion.

Players in pre-made groups will find the wait times to be matched against solo-queue players to be longer due to an overhaul in the WildStar PvP matchmaking system. According to the update notes, the rating offset for groups was too small and has now been significantly increased.

The WildStar team is on a roll this week with in-game events and a new Loremageddon article that profiles two faction leaders, Kezrek Warbringer and Durek Stonebreaker. In addition, composer Jeff Kurtenacker has posted a haunting piece of the Ascendancy music on Soundcloud.

It’s gone free to play. It’s launched an item shop. In this week’s column, Gareth Harmer asks the inevitable: should WildStar launch on Steam?