![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |