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What's the future of WiS?
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Tristan North
The Scope
#1 - 2011-11-07 17:23:43 UTC
In the last months CCP gave us a lot of confusing info about the future of WiS.
I think that the players (also just-FiS supporters) deserve at least to know exactly what's going on.
Pesky LaRue
Mercatoris
#2 - 2011-11-07 17:44:10 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
In the last months CCP gave us a lot of confusing info about the future of WiS.
I think that the players (also just-FiS supporters) deserve at least to know exactly what's going on.

I'm sure there is other, more detailed info but the short version is that it's on the back-burner while they focus on the core-game. Don't expect anything for a while (ie, a year+).
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#3 - 2011-11-07 17:48:28 UTC
They will now only release what was already finished or mostly finished slowly over time and only invest minor resources in going further down the development path they already had planned with full resources.

I doubt it'll get offlined completely.

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Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2011-11-07 17:50:03 UTC
time for your 18 months. Twisted
Dave Kaplinski
1nside Bet
#5 - 2011-11-07 17:50:18 UTC
Like most features they do, half implimented then forgotten about because of :effort:
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#6 - 2011-11-07 18:47:17 UTC
Pesky LaRue wrote:
[quote=Tristan North]
I'm sure there is other, more detailed info but the short version is that it's on the back-burner while they focus on the core-game. Don't expect anything for a while (ie, a year+).


And what were they doing from the begining of the game like(2003)...

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Tristan North
The Scope
#7 - 2011-11-07 18:49:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Tristan North
Funny how easy is to manipulate the players; just few FiS stuffs that was probably already in devolepment, a letter from the CEO, and everybody stop complainin about the lack of communication/content.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#8 - 2011-11-07 18:52:32 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
Funny how easy is to manipulate the players; just few FiS stuffs that was probably already in devolepment, a letter from the CEO, and everybody stop complainin about the lack of comunication/content.



Confirmed troll thread.

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Tristan North
The Scope
#9 - 2011-11-07 18:58:12 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:


Confirmed troll thread.

Hah, confirmed.
Razin
The Scope
#10 - 2011-11-07 19:03:17 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
In the last months CCP gave us a lot of confusing info about the future of WiS.
I think that the players (also just-FiS supporters) deserve at least to know exactly what's going on.

I think we're getting a Christmas tree in our CQs for (you guessed it) Christmas. That's the near future. We may be getting one every year, if you wanted something more long term...
Pesky LaRue
Mercatoris
#11 - 2011-11-07 19:03:22 UTC
Akrasjel Lanate wrote:
Pesky LaRue wrote:
[quote=Tristan North]
I'm sure there is other, more detailed info but the short version is that it's on the back-burner while they focus on the core-game. Don't expect anything for a while (ie, a year+).


And what were they doing from the begining of the game like(2003)...
a) they weren't working on it back then and b) what's that got to do with anything, anyway? they could have been working on this since the victorian age and that wouldn't make any difference to them deciding to focus on FiS?
Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2011-11-07 19:41:58 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
Funny how easy is to manipulate the players; just few FiS stuffs that was probably already in devolepment, a letter from the CEO, and everybody stop complainin about the lack of communication/content.

Yeah damn those guys for communicating more and giving players what they have been asking for.

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Tristan North
The Scope
#13 - 2011-11-07 20:09:00 UTC
Ladie Harlot wrote:

Yeah damn those guys for communicating more and giving players what they have been asking for.

There's a significant part of players asking for related-WiS content/info, communicating more doesn't mean communicating enough.
Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2011-11-07 20:13:41 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
There's a significant part of players asking for related-WiS content/info

There really aren't very many but if you honestly think there's a huge number of people out there who are desperate for Dolly Dressup and the microtransaction super store then get all of them together and cancel your accounts. If enough of you do this it will do a lot more to convince CCP than posting endless threads about it. I suspect that the number of cancellations will comfortably fit in the usual monthly churn rate.

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David Grogan
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2011-11-07 20:16:08 UTC
WiS was boxed up and put away in storage

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Famble
Three's a Crowd
#16 - 2011-11-07 20:16:56 UTC
It's been made fairly clear to me that WiS on a large scale (read: lage enough scale that its supporters would approve of) just isn't possible with today's hardware and their models.

That tells me one thing: it's a long, long time away.

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De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2011-11-07 20:19:33 UTC
Consulting my magic 8 ball, the answer appears to be "Don't know, don't care."

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Tristan North
The Scope
#18 - 2011-11-07 20:29:02 UTC
Ladie Harlot wrote:
Tristan North wrote:
There's a significant part of players asking for related-WiS content/info

There really aren't very many but if you honestly think there's a huge number of people out there who are desperate for Dolly Dressup and the microtransaction super store then get all of them together and cancel your accounts. If enough of you do this it will do a lot more to convince CCP than posting endless threads about it. I suspect that the number of cancellations will comfortably fit in the usual monthly churn rate.

Barbiephobic huh?
Did i talk about people disperate about WiS and "micro"transaction?
Well, if you think that, to get an answer about WiS future, players need to cancel their accounts, you must agree with me that there is still lack of communication.
mkint
#19 - 2011-11-07 20:31:38 UTC
Communication good. WiS bad. That is all.

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Issler Dainze
Tadakastu-Obata Corporation
The Honda Accord
#20 - 2011-11-07 20:39:27 UTC
Tristan North wrote:
In the last months CCP gave us a lot of confusing info about the future of WiS.
I think that the players (also just-FiS supporters) deserve at least to know exactly what's going on.


The last official word is that WiS is "on ice indefinitely". We were told this is because CCP has determined that the players don't want it and CCP couldn't see how to make it compelling. Both of these statements are easily refuted.

I expect what really happened is it became clear CCP's bet on the Carbon engine for WoD proved impossible to deploy for scaling reasons. That is what killed WoD and as collateral damage WiS.

A strong case for that being the real reason is at no time did we ever see a multiple character in a room at once implemetation on the test server or even a video of something like that wih lots of charcters at once and I believe that same is true for WoD.

Personally I'd would like to see CCP put a small team on WiS V 2.0 based on the engine they are using for Dust. At least we know that scales and is deployable commercially.

If you looked forward to WiS and still want it worked on please post your support in the "Some of us Still Want WiS" thread.

Issler
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