In the SF-MMO WildStar , a small part of the community sent pizza to the stressed technicians in the office, while the vast majority unleashed their frustration.
WildStar was supposed to be the “Feel-Good” story of the week. After the Free2Play relaunch as WildStar Reloaded, they finally have the players they had been longing for months. But the servers couldn’t handle it, resulting in lags, huge queues, and major problems.
Some players who wanted to check it out are upset: Installed, logged in, 18 hours of queue, immediately uninstalled! Or: Now the Free2Play players are ruining everything for us! I pay and should be stuck in the queue!
Amid all the understandable frustration, it is forgotten that there are also people on the other side working hard. And that far beyond the normal limits. A WildStar technician posted that he had worked 52 out of the last 65 hours and desperately needed a break.
I just counted and I have worked 52 out of the last 65 hours. I really do love #WildStar but I think it is time for a quick nap!
— Chris Thomas (@CRB_Buiden) October 1, 2015
But not everyone forgets the other side over their own anger. Part of the community, the role-players, has this empathy. The WildStar roleplay community took a moment for the devs, passed the virtual hat around, and sent the developers some pizzas instead of frustrated messages.
Many thanks to https://t.co/G1W4L07een for sending a pizza lunch to our hungry #WildStar devs! <3 pic.twitter.com/WlbtdIHFDY — WildStar (@WildStar) October 1, 2015
Nice gesture, as the developers will not only feel a warm feeling in their stomachs due to the pizza, but also feel a bit of the community’s love. In the meantime, backup servers for WildStar are online. Whether this went a bit quicker thanks to the carbohydrate-and-love boost or not might not even be that important, or what do you think?
