Wildstar had a very similar art style in that it amped up the cartoonist aspects to make it more timeless.
Nothing quite like Sam’s art though.
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it’s weird, I see a LOT of people say this, but where was this kind of support when the game was live?
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Most of the mmorpg playerbase were hoplessly addicted to wow at the time. It was common for any new mmorpg to have a massive player base in the first couple of months before the “tourists” would return to wow.
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I had a paid sub from the first day I played until the last.
But I know a lot of “hardcore” wow players at the time that could not get passed the robot boss in the third dungeon and just went back to WoW.
The game had other issues obviously.
And any mmo has to contend with the fact that people have already done all of this before in WoW. One of my biggest gripes about other mmos is I have so many mounts in wow…I go to another game and have zero. That’s a tough sell.
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I still played/subbed to it until the end. I miss my Chua.
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I don’t like the implication of “WoW is Dead” you’re putting out, because we’re not there yet despite current forum sentiment, but shelving that for now, I agree.
Wildstar was fantastic. Literally the only reason I didn’t keep playing is because I was still raiding in WoW at the time and knew I wouldn’t be able to dedicate the time to endgame in both games. If Wildstar came out halfway through WoD, or anytime during BfA or later, I probably would’ve just switched games entirely.
Now, Carbine did make mistakes. They catered too much to a hardcore audience and took so long to correct course that their entire audience bailed by the time they started fixing things.
But they DID make good changes. Just with poor timing. I’d like to think, with the current MMORPG market, it could’ve at least survived and been an alternative to FFXIV for people looking to ditch WoW.
That sentiment is probably half the reason the game failed, btw.
“I can’t do that because I’m already doing it in WoW”.
Wildstar committed the sin of trying to directly compete with the MMORPG anomaly that is WoW while it was still LEAGUES ahead of anything else.
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We like to look back and see things we liked not the things we didn’t and i’m sorry to tell you this but wildstar was a bad mmo, it had everything to be good but coming out with what 1 raid? and that’s really it at endgame, killed it before even taking off.
(beta tester and played it for about 7 months when it come out)
Guess what?
That’s most MMOs. They don’t launch with a 16 year backlog of content. You know what Shadowlands had at launch? BfA? Legion? WoD? 1 Raid.
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It had one raid but there was still a ton of content before that raid. The second raid released pretty soon after launch as well.
The game did everything just as well as wow in its starting days and had the best iteration of player housing the genre has seen, so I don’t agree that it was a bad mmo. The animations were fluid, controlling your character was just as smooth as wow, and the combat was a huge step up from tab targeting.
Original WoW didn’t even launch with one raid.
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And did you ever think that’s why most mmo’s fail now?
yeah it didn’t but it had endgame where wildstar didn’t
Having zero raids is more endgame than having one? Your contrarian side is showing bub.
Like i said we like to look back and see the things we liked not the things we didn’t. if it was as good as you said why is it gone? why did 90% of the players like myself given up before even a year? it had 0 things to do.
Because they were heavily invested into WoW with its sunk cost fallacy. Nice “rose tinted gogles” argument as well.
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FF14 isn’t benefiting from WoW’s “demise.”
FF14 is popular because it’s a good game and benefits from decades of building up a universe’s worth of lore and a loyal fanbase.
The idea that the only reason FF14 is popular is due to WoW losing subs is just… well, pretty wrong. It’s not like Wildstar would have FF14 numbers right now if they had delayed their release by a matter of years.
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Assuming FF is receiving an upturn from anything other than Asmongold is laughable.
You can even look at the metrics on Google for when his stream was to when FF14 started suddenly trending.
That’s not to say FF14 is or isn’t a good game. But I assure you its current situation is directly due to Asmon getting tired of WoW and being pushed to try it by his viewers.
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some of y’all really in here calling other mmo’s trash, like this game is still the best.
FOH with all that fanboy noise 
y’all getting blasted by the weaboo online daycare center that had to be postponed
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The style of Samwise, for me, just makes about everything look cool. As long as I can beat world baddies and look cool, I’m staying.
I really like the look of this tier set too for Domination. I’d just wish they would create a single player aspect where I could pick my followers to raid up and hit the raid for transmog only stuff you can get in LFR.
FF was swinging upwards even before Asmongold started looking at it. The game’s due to launch a new expansion by the end of this year.
Proof in the pudding. FF was already gaining in popularity.
Google metrics tell you nothing about how many active players an MMO has or how long they’ll stick around. It just tells you how many people are talking about it. We all have to deal with FF threads on this forum every single day; doesn’t mean we’re FF players.