That's also how the developers plan to insert new lore and move the game's narrative forward. The devs don't want you to be stuck with typical endgame fare like dailies or tradeskills if you'd rather be doing something else like smashing monsters in the face, so solo players both highbie and lowbie can expect monthly story content just for them. If you're not really the raiding type and the thought of even dynamic raids does nothing for you, cheer up because WildStar also hopes to innovate in the solo endgame arena, specifically via story advancement. In an age when most MMOs are scaling back raids, it's certainly an interesting tactic for Carbine's opus. How does 40-man competitive raiding strike you? Imagine dynamic raids that change rules on a weekly basis and a ladder system to rank and reward groups of different sizes and makeups for their on-the-fly ingenuity and speed rather than their repetition and progression. So how exactly will WildStar make the level climb and the endgame compelling? For starters, the game is embracing raids. As Gaffney put it, "How about we all just make good games? Good games sell pretty well too."
WildStar isn't strictly about building the perfect sandpark. There are sandboxes within it, and there are directed things within it, and it's best when they overlap." Carbine believes those two worlds intersect along the player story and ensure that sandbox fans will never feel pushed along and themepark fans won't ever get too lost. Sound like a sandbox? It is and it isn't. After all, Gaffney says, "if you reward people for doing fun things, they'll do more fun things, but if you reward people for doing boring things, they'll do more boring things." He believes MMOs fail for two specific reasons: They fail to create a compelling leveling experience, and they fail to create an interesting endgame - or, as he put it bluntly, "trying to get to the end sucks and then getting to the end sucks." Carbine's goal is to tackle the problem head-on with an interesting and fantastic setting, heavy content variety and density, intricate combat telegraphing, a dynamic story, and a player-modifiable world. WildStar's philosophy, by contrast, is "play how you want to play." Gaffney argues that his team's goal is to give players lots of choices over what they want to do, not to "impose the team's will of awesome design-ness" on the game.īetter still, the game is intended to reward the player for whatever his choices might be. Gaffney began his presentation with this gem - his belief that MMOs have failed us, that we return again and again to the altar of MMOs only to be let down when they try to push us into one form of unfun or another. It's not completely ready yet, but I did get a little tour of what is.%Gallery-178086% "MMOs have probably failed you" "We are trying to be the biggest game on the planet," the executive producer of Carbine Studios declared boldly to the handful of people in my WildStar demo in San Francisco last month.īut he's clearly no fool: "Our goal is to have the biggest game on the planet, not to have a crappy game that we shove out early." He's at ease when discussing the studio's two-year live plan, PAX East demo (there will be one), and the upcoming business model reveal ("fairly soon"), but even with closed beta coming in the next three months or so and a launch window targeted for the end of 2013, he clings to the mantra he must have learned from fellow NCsoft studio ArenaNet: "It's ready when it's ready." He's boundless energy, and he's got boundless ambition to match. YouTube stats: 157,086 views and 968 comments for top 50 videos uploaded last week, 5 new videos uploaded yesterday.Jeremy Gaffney runs on Diet Coke. Release date: (previously in Early Access)
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