Place 13: Wildstar
Developer: Carbine Studios | Platform: PC | Release Date: June 3, 2014 | Shutdown: November 28, 2018
MeinMMO demon Cortyn remembers: Ah, WildStar. It is difficult to think back to this MMORPG. It was colorful. It was loud. It was bizarre and full of action. For a few weeks, WildStar was on everyone’s lips and the great MMORPG hope that wanted to pick up disappointed WoW veterans through hardcore raids and challenging fights.
But very quickly, players realized: They weren’t as hardcore as they thought. The difficulty was immense and in combination with the fast-paced combat system, only a few groups saw the endgame first hand.
In addition, the consistently failed patch policy was a problem. WildStar wanted to provide new content every six to eight weeks, and they did that for a few months – but the patches were so buggy and poorly tested that areas had to be completely deactivated at times. It took months to fix the problems, and content supply basically came to a standstill.
However, if there is one thing that WildStar absolutely nailed, it was housing. Here, you had almost unlimited freedom. Thousands of objects in the game world could be found and used as decoration.
In fact, the freedom was so great that you could rotate and shift every item down to the pixel. So if you wanted, you could use several boards to build your own walls, create stairs, or get creative in other ways.
I always think back fondly to WildStar, because this freedom in housing fostered a very active RP scene. Even today, nearly six years after the servers were shut down, I look at screenshots from back then and think back to our tavern “The First Best”. I still meet RP veterans in other games who often ask “Do you remember back in WildStar?”
It was a paradise for a while, and it was extremely short-lived. WildStar had many great ideas and an interesting world – ultimately, however, it failed due to poor management and the developers’ inability to keep promises. Nevertheless, WildStar will forever have a special place in the hearts of many fans.
