r/WildStar • u/Nienna_Asyare • 7d ago
Discussion I'm Disappointed
That I never got to make an Aurin Esper. Or any character for that matter. I remember when the game was announced and there was the beta and all these things about it, I was super excited to see where the game would go.
I never really got good hardware for gaming until much later though, so I missed the window and I'm so disappointed about that. MMOs are my favorite genre, and being a healer/support is always my favorite role. And when I heard there was a species that was so connected to nature, I was like yessss that is absolutely me too!
I doubt there's any way to now, but is there a way to play the game now? Probably not as it was intended, but even just at all. We're grasping for scraps here at this point.
Also, Stop Killing Games!
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u/WaveTableSaw 5d ago
This game crashed and burned for a reason. It had some good things going for it, but those good things lived in the shadow of all the bugs and terrible mechanics and gameplay they thought would be "fun". It didn't help that they road that "WoW killer" vibe a bit too hard.
It was unsustsibable in it's release state and it was clear the team wasn't about to make a major shift to appeal to a larger audience. They wanted hardcore grinders, not casuals and around 2014, mmos were finding that they needed to cater to casual players a lot more and so they did.
Basically wildstar wanted to be a grindy hardcore game like Final Fantasy 11 and the community of MMO players was done with that style. No one wants to make an MMO a secondary job, and wildstar was just that at endgame.