So Long, Moonshine Laboratory – An archive of my first major housing project in the live game. Nexus is My Home – A few months after launch, when all the hype was starting to settle down, I was happily settling in for the long haul. Strain! – WildStar’s early content patches were very meaty and fun. I Leveled Up, Cupcake – I got my first character to the level cap and the whole world was opened up before me. Healing on Nexus – WildStar’s healing was pretty different from any MMO I had played before. Why Housing? – The exact moment when I discovered the magic that was WildStar’s housing system.įarewell to Beta – The last chaotic moments on the beta servers were a fantastic party. Here are some of my WildStar posts that give a timeline of my experience with the game: It’s the first game I got excited enough about to start writing, even creating guides. I hope everyone lands on their feet.įinally, WildStar is the reason I have this blog. The WildStar devs to me were always the gold standard of positive interaction with the community. I send my fondest well-wishes to all of the Carbine folks who are now looking for new work.
On the other hand I kind of want to keep all the amazing memories of the game intact without being colored by the lens of “this is the end”. On the one hand I would like to visit again, take some screenshots, and explore all my old favorite places. Now that I’m faced with the certainty of WildStar’s looming demise, I’m not sure what to do with myself. I know that my love of the game and extremely modest influence on my friends and readers wouldn’t have made enough difference to keep the game going, but I still feel like a bit of a traitor anyway. Unfortunately I still also feel like I contributed to this sad outcome by giving up instead of staying a stalwart cheerleader. I was in some sense trying to save myself some heartbreak when the game shut down by stepping away, and I guess it partially worked. Once the staff had been reduced, and the flow of updates essentially dried up, it became hard to stay invested. The point at which I left was when the writing on the wall became too clear to ignore. I found a few different guilds, and sometimes even just stuck it out completely on my own. I stuck around through some of its rocky times, even when almost all of my friends had long gone. The game remains my favorite MMO of all time, but I’ve had a strange relationship with it toward the end of its life. I still have the WildStar launcher on my machine, and still log in about once a month just to look around, but I haven’t been playing it in any substantial way in over a year. I have so many feelings about this announcement, yet I almost decided to avoid writing about it. The news broke yesterday that NCSoft shut down Carbine Studios and soon WildStar will be closed forever.
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