Pay a fee, or don’t!
The upcoming MMOWildStarlooks pretty solid. It’s got a good sense of humor, style, and appears to be differentenoughto fill a certain niche. Today the team at NCSoft has officially announced thegame’s business model,answering the long-awaited question of “willWildStarbe free-to-play?” The answer is an unsure “kinda?”
All players must first buy the game for $60, which comes with one month of free time. From there, players have two options: pay a monthly fee of $15, or purchase “C.R.E.D.D.” with in-game gold. Each C.R.E.D.D. is worth one month of game time, and the in-game price will fluctuate depending on the economy at the time. It’s all explained here in thisFAQ.
The “alternate route” seems nice, though I worry that in order to keep it up, players will have to spend most of their time farming money to keep playingWildStar.I am glad that they’ve decided to go primarily with the subscription model though, since, to me, it shows confidence in their game and respect to their paying customers.
