Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
http://mmos.com/news/investment-bank-predicts-grim-future-for-wildstar
Apparently Daewoo Securities is the largest investment bank in South Korea?
What a fucking mess this game has been. Piss poor support post launch, an AWFUL F2P launch, and no new raid content in a year and a half, with no upcoming release date for the next raid (and there's only one smaller raid, Protostar All-Stars, with Red Moon being delayed to drop 8).
They even fucked up the F2P transition, too. They had a great system in place, but next to nothing is account bound, and the only things added to the shop are piss poor or RNG based.
It's a shame. The core gameplay with the telegraphs is wonderful, the zones are nice, etc. It's easily the first MMO I've played since WoW where it felt like a proper evolution of the mechanics, rather than a clone or something completely different. But NCSOFT + Carbine have mismanaged this beyond belief. Such a god damn shame.
This game isn't going to even last to Q42016, IMO. NCSOFT won't let it.
Lock if old.
Ever since WildStar went free to play in the West on September 29, 2015, hopes of a turnaround for the ailing franchise have remained high. Servers were slowly filling back up again and the game world felt "full" for the first time since release. This hasn't stopped Daewoo Securities, South Korea's largest Investment Bank, from issuing a dire prediction for Wildstar's future revenues. Chang-kwaen Kim and Jeong-yeob Park, who wrote the report were bullish on NCSoft's prospects predicting an 18% increase in the company's stock price, but were negative about Wildstar's prospects. They predict WildStar's revenues will fall to near $0 by Q4 2016 as seen here:
The analyst note was published on January 19th, 2016 and also reveals the remarkable strength of Lineage 1, which is expected to grow revenues by 3.4% in 2016. Blade and Soul and Guild Wars 2 remain the two strongest games in NCSoft's platform after Lineage, but both are expected to suffer double digit declines in revenue in 2016. If things don't turn around for WildStar in the coming year, NCSoft could end up shutting the game down. Given that the game just recently transitioned to free to play, it may be a bit early to write it off, but as-is the game has been a financial failure for NCSoft, bringing in only ~$50 million in revenue since launch (80% of which was in 2014 due initial buzz and retail sales).
Apparently Daewoo Securities is the largest investment bank in South Korea?
What a fucking mess this game has been. Piss poor support post launch, an AWFUL F2P launch, and no new raid content in a year and a half, with no upcoming release date for the next raid (and there's only one smaller raid, Protostar All-Stars, with Red Moon being delayed to drop 8).
They even fucked up the F2P transition, too. They had a great system in place, but next to nothing is account bound, and the only things added to the shop are piss poor or RNG based.
It's a shame. The core gameplay with the telegraphs is wonderful, the zones are nice, etc. It's easily the first MMO I've played since WoW where it felt like a proper evolution of the mechanics, rather than a clone or something completely different. But NCSOFT + Carbine have mismanaged this beyond belief. Such a god damn shame.
This game isn't going to even last to Q42016, IMO. NCSOFT won't let it.
Lock if old.