After Carbine Studios laid off 40% of its workforce earlier this year, I had a horrible feeling that its game WildStar would lose its legs shortly after. Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The cartoony MMORPG appears to be doing alright, and when it launches on Steam, I think it’s going to do even better.
Hang on, WildStar is coming to Steam? Yes, yes it is! It’ll be out tomorrow already as a matter of fact, on the 9th of June (via PC Gamer).
We’re looking forward to seeing new and old players alike jumping back into the fray and exploring the vast continents of Nexus, taking on a grand adventure to investigate this lost planet and learn about its origins, but more importantly kicking some butt! We’ll be active on the Steam platform providing news updates, patch notes, and interacting on the Steam community sections.
Praise Gaben! Personally, I hate having games on my PC that are tied to a launcher that isn’t Steam (Blizzard titles on the Battlenet app being the only exception). I’m sure many feel the same, and thus, will be grateful to add WildStar to their library, even if only for the sake of convenience.
With this launch, I’m hoping WildStar will find a new audience to bolster its numbers. I really enjoyed the MMO when I reviewed it two years ago, and I’d love for more people to play it. It is now free-to-play after all, so there really is no excuse!
WildStar is a fantastical sci-fi MMO where you can join your friends or undertake your own epic adventures on the fabled planet Nexus! Explore the huge and amazingly vibrant world packed with unique characters, exotic locations, thrilling challenges and dark mysteries. Recruit fellow citizens of Nexus to solve the primordial puzzles of the universe itself as you experience exhilarating action combat, deep character customization, and one of the most powerful housing systems ever seen in a MMORPG.
Does WildStar appeal to you at all? Will you be playing it now that it’s coming to Steam?
Last Updated: June 8, 2016
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:34
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Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
June 8, 2016 at 12:34
XD
Greylingad[He Charges!]
June 8, 2016 at 12:41
Ahaaaahaaaahaaaaaa!!! I now have a coffee covered screen! HAHAHAHA!!
PoisonedBelial
June 8, 2016 at 12:34
That video looks awesome.
Will definitely give this a try!
HairyEwok
June 8, 2016 at 12:35
Nope.. Just nope. This game already stole money from me once, it will not steal my time as well.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:36
I bough the game before it went on sale for total lump sum of $1.
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:36
I bought this on release. Played for 2 months. Didn’t resub. Jumped back in when it went F2P. Played a week. Didn’t go back. It’s missing something. A magic, something that brings you back for more. While the world and premise are cool, it doesn’t translate to in-game.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:37
The combat is great. But something is definitely missing from the “fun” mix
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:38
I had a lot of fun building my house though. Seriously, half my game time in 2 months was spent on that. Really cool.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:39
I did not even get to house building
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
June 8, 2016 at 12:38
Friends to play with?
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:38
Nah I make friends easily in MMOs. I was part of a guild, playing with people that were cool. It’s just that I had no desire to actually, you know, play.
HairyEwok
June 8, 2016 at 12:41
I guess when the people left the WoW team the guy that made WoW fun stayed behind at WoW XD
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:44
Huh? No there was only 1 other ex-wow player in our guild.
HairyEwok
June 8, 2016 at 12:47
The Developers of Wildstar were Ex-WoW people. So the one person that made WoW fun stayed behind at WoW.
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:49
oh LOL
VampyreSquirrel
June 8, 2016 at 13:03
I found a guild of ex-wow players… 200+ of them
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 13:04
…in warframe
VampyreSquirrel
June 8, 2016 at 13:10
Nope, in Wildstart
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:40
Still, saying that. Its worth a shot. F2P, not P2W, mechanics are solid, and if you’re not overly fussy like me – there’s lots of charm to be found, and lots of fun to be had.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:41
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Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:43
No really. I’m just way too full of shit now with my games. WildStar is a lot of fun, there’s a lot to like about it. I love the path system, I love the different classes, the art style, really good combat mechanics. Characters are cool. It just didn’t resonate with me. That doesn’t mean it won’t resonate with others.
Kromas GG
June 8, 2016 at 12:53
Wildstar had terrible game play.
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:54
Because it required more than a “tab -> press 1” to win?
Kromas GG
June 8, 2016 at 12:56
No because they built game play thinking everyone will have 9 ms latency to the server. You want that type of game play then try terra. It’s also free.
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:58
Except Tera has no charm, is dull, and boring. WildStar has a lot of all of those, and its gameplay is actually much better than Tera too.
Kromas GG
June 8, 2016 at 13:02
Wildstar was the only mmo ever that I dropped a month after launch. I was just that bad. And I played the original sto.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:58
Blade and Soul is actually pretty great
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 12:58
Also meh. Bad voice acting and worthless characters/story made me stop playing that. Gameplay was good, world was beautiful though.
Ottokie
June 8, 2016 at 12:59
The combat was pretty. As for lore, I also had no clue what was going on
Pariah
June 8, 2016 at 13:01
lel yeah. Skip the cutscenes and you miss nothing. Pity, it’s really a beautiful game. I liked the weapon system too.
DragonSpirit009
June 8, 2016 at 13:23
Don’t know much about the game bit that vid looked awesome. Loved the music they used!
Wraith
June 9, 2016 at 07:47
Hope that updates are downloaded automatically as part of the normal steam updates. Always annoys me when you have to actually launch the game to download updates. Steam ends up logging 100+ hours of game time just because you left the installer open :).