This is, in my opinion, flawed thinking, as most MMO players don’t play one game exclusively anymore, and killing games and refusing to sell them only creates ill will that makes players less likely to play your other games, but regardless, that seems to be their attitude. The story goes that NCsoft sees selling MMOs, even MMOs they’re shelving, as creating competition for themselves. Yes, City of Heroes is a special case, but we’ll get to that in a second. The reason I say this is the least likely outcome is that NCsoft has a history of refusing to sell their dead games. It is widely agreed that the biggest reason that WildStar shut down is that they made a lot of dumb decisions around the time of launch, like going subscription only at launch when everyone else was moving to buy- and free-to-play, and focusing far too much on ultra hardcore endgame raiding and PvP when the people who showed up were interested in pretty much everything but that. Honestly, this is probably the best outcome… and the least likely. NCsoft sells the WildStar IP to another company, who puts the game back in development.
All of the options are a long shot, but here are a few ways it could potentially happen.
Is there any chance we could ever walk the surface of Nexus again? Maybe. They saw in it great potential, but felt it was wasted by the team that developed it. It’s clear that a lot of people loved this game and really miss it. I’m not going to reiterate what Syp said, I’m just going to point you to his post and say I agree with every word. I grieve for this game and its potential and what could have been. If you know me at all, you know how much I loved this game. The Twitter comments lit up with agreement, including familiar faces from around the WildStar community like Mayor DaMoose and Avidguru (the latter of which said he hasn’t “stepped into another MMO since”). The other day, fellow blogger Syp over at BioBreak posted about how much he misses WildStar and wants it back.
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