My wife and friend created all the other content on the website. Considering all the programming was done by one man I believe we created something good. I programmed for months trying to create as many things as possible to create a good database for Wildstar players.
The day I saw that a great game like Wildstar could not find a big enough audience was the day I decided I will not be working on MMORPG games exclusively anymore and the day we started creating A lot of effort went into creating Wildstar Life website. Love is one thing, but paying for food is a fact of life. At one point it just wasn’t making any money for us to justify putting any effort into it. It was going to be just another in a long line of mediocre performing western MMORPGs. Wildstar was not going to be the swan song of the mmorpg genre. That is not strange for any MMO, but it made one thing obvious. After a couple of weeks people started leaving and after a few months the game had maybe 1/10th of its initial numbers. At launch it performed worse than Elder Scrolls Online did at launch in terms of the number of players that were first adopters. When the game launched it became painfully obvious that it’s not going to happen. If the players do not pick up on it and it does not succeed then there is something seriously wrong with the MMORPG genre as a whole. My thoughts after playing the game in Brighton were that Wildstar is the best MMORPG release since World of Warcraft. Genre as a whole was in a downward spiral and wasn’t drawing in big enough crowd to be considered lucrative by big studios. Everything seemed to be just right.Īt the time the only other big thing happening on the MMORPG horizon was launch of the Elder Scrolls Online. It also had a lot of movement and combat mechanics that seemed to be above and beyond what any of the competition was offering. It had all the components any post WOW era MMORPG should have and promised to have them on launch.
The game seemed to be going in the right direction.
My initial impressions were very positive. It was a wonderful experience meeting all the developers, fellow MMORPG enthusiasts and seeing the game in action for the first time. It was one of the earliest builds and we had a chance to play it in NCSoft offices in Brighton. I played the game for the first time in 2013. Day has come – Wildstar is about to be no more.