Tag: Carbine Studios

Wildstar Merger Nukes Low Level Inactive Characters


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Carbine Studios is set to launch the Wildstar megaservers this week, on Wednesday October 15th. Players will be grouped into one of four servers, based on their physical location (US and EU) and server type (PvE or PvP). Due to the complicated nature of the merger, Carbine Studios is expecting a downtime of twelve to twenty four hours, which will be compensated in the form of thirty Boom-Boxes and an extra day of game time. To avoid naming issues, players will be required to create unique surnames. Guilds with conflicting names will hand priority over to the oldest guild, with the newer one being forced to change its name.

As part of the update, characters under level 3 that are inactive (not logged in within 30 days of the merger) will be deleted.

(Source: Wildstar)

Wildstar State of the Game


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Carbine Studios has released the latest State of the Game address for Wildstar. After hitting some hurdles with population and having to drop their monthly update plan, Mike Donatelli posted a list of updates that are currently in the works for the next update. Players can look forward to new zones, new lore, and other content updates in addition to the tackling of long standing bugs in need of squashing.

  • Two new chapters of content, including solo, five-player, and 20-man events.
  • Fully voiced NPCs in new zones.
  • Option to skip the tutorial on alts.
  • Various improvements to low level zones.
  • Combat balances.
  • Bug fixes and long-demanded tweaks to UI, mechanics, and more.

(Source: Wildstar)

Wildstar Announces Server Mergers


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Mega servers are the future, at least in the sense that they allow developers to merge servers without using the term and acting like there is nothing to worry about with the population. Wildstar developer Carbine Studios has revealed that the fledgling MMO will soon see its servers merged similar to DC Universe Online, with one PvE and one PvP server per cluster.

Going the Megaserver route means that we vastly increase server capacity allowing for greater critical mass of our player base, resulting in more people, more groups, more activity and more raids… more of everything that makes WildStar so fun. The Megaservers and their increased player capacity will give fans more options to group up and enjoy WildStar with friends and other players for a long time to come.

To avoid name conflicts, all players will be given a last name.

(Source: Wildstar)

Wildstar To Address Server Population


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Carbine Studios has revealed over Twitter that an update is coming to address population issues on servers. No more details are available at this time.

(Source: Twitter)

Wildstar Abandons Monthly Content Updates


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Carbine Studios has announced that Wildstar will be abandoning its monthly update promise and instead releasing content updates every few months. In an interview at Gamescom, Senior Game Designer Megan Starks commented that the change in policy is to allow the game’s developers time to ensure quality rather than working against a hard deadline. Wildstar’s upcoming content release, Defile, has been delayed for the next few months past its original September release.

(Source: Massively)

Carbine Staff Knocks Down Cheater On Forums


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Wildstar staff Cougar took to the forums to publicly respond to a player asking why his account ban hadn’t been dealt with ten days later.

I’m assuming that with your posting here that you don’t mind us talking about your account status in public. I have a spare moment before my next meeting and am doing this on a lark. I understand this opens me up to “oh oh oh my ticket” which I don’t intend to keep up with. I am a fickle beast. You, and your alts, were reported a number of time by players for AFK Botting. We found you afk botting in a PvP Match (which as you know, was a really big issue for us – which is now better thanks to AddOns no longer being able to join matches automatically, among other things). We did our secret stuff … okay afk bot confirmation doesn’t take much clandestine stuff once we are on top of you. We sent you tells over time and you never reacted and continued doing the same thing over and over.

We closed your account. You opened up a ticket in question, asking for us to give you your account back. In that opening salvo of asking us for getting your account back, you admited that you were afk botting while doing homework. You then added 5 replies in two days to the ticket with various stages of pleading/begging. Including internet meme pictures. (http://i2.kym-cdn.co…392/289/116.gif). A few agents have investigated it internally and found your account to be worthy of permanent closure. You are exactly the problem case players have been pleading for us to remove from our game. We agree with them.

Now, why we’ve taken some time to tell you that your ban will not be overturned I’m not sure. So thank you for bringing that to my attention, however you’ll forgive me if we don’t prioritize deserved-to-be-banned-customers over paying ones right now.

(Source: Wildstar)

Wildstar Early Access Hammered By DDOS


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With players piling into Wildstar’s servers for early access, what more could a developer possibly ask for? A denial of service attack, apparently. Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney posted on the game’s Reddit to confirm that the servers were under attack and that it was being handled. Since then the servers have come back to normal.

I’ve heard from a few folks it’s a confirmed DDOS attack (real time updates, may change, fog of war, etc.). Partially handled. Servers taking in some players now, player counts rising. Ninjitsu continue.

Never underestimate the potential of anonymous basement dwellers with botnets.

(Source: Reddit)

MMOrning Shots: I Mustache You A Question


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Today’s MMOrning Shots comes to us from Wildstar, where my character is sporting quite a leafy mustache. You too can have such a mustache by joining the Wildstar open beta, going on now until the 18th.

Check out MMOrning Shots (eventually) every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Wildstar Beta Opens May 8th


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If you haven’t had a chance to check out Wildstar, your time is coming soon. NCSoft has announced that Wildstar will enter open beta on Thursday May 8th. The beta is scheduled to run until May 18th and allows players to access content up to level 30. For more information on Wildstar, check out the website at the following link. Wildstar is set to go live on June 3rd.

(Source: NCSoft Press Release)

Carbine Studios Donates To Child's Play


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This year at PAX East, Carbine Studios has announced a special donation to Child’s Play. In addition to a comically sized check for ten thousand dollars, Carbine Studios has partnered with LEGO artist Mariann Asanuma to recreate the Wildstar rocket house in all of its blocky glory. The structure stands three feet high and four feet long and is the result of fifty thousand LEGO blocks.

The rocket ship will be auctioned off later this year at the annual Child’s Play Dinner and Auction. Mona Hamilton, Vice President of Brands at Carbine Studios, weighed in on the contribution.

Child’s Play is a wonderful charity doing really great things with the gaming industry and we’re looking forward to seeing the result of the auction later this year. It was also important for us to say thanks by giving back to the Boston community; they’ve been great to us over the years at PAX East.

Child’s Play’s goal is to improve the lives of children in hospitals and welfare facilities through the positive impact of video games.

(Source: Carbine Studios Press Release)