OPINION
GOING SOLO
Copper, gold, platinum. These are the currencies of Wildstar, and they are plentiful.
Still, of all the things you can buy with them, the one thing it won’t buy, is time.
I
first heard of Wildstar about
play. Alas, life is not so easy.
since Wildstar’s launch, my log-in
times would vary from 10pm to 5am
one week before it’s official
Amongst work-life, home-life,
launch, and I immediately
and other projects I attend to daily,
in the morning--whenever I could
wanted in. I loved everything about
I often find myself facing a time-
score some alone time. I cursed
it, and this was the first MMO, I
crunch. For the first three months
the region-lock often, as I logged in
felt truly compelled to invest my
mostly when nobody was on. At least
precious time and money into. I pre-
it made questing in PvP zones easy.
purchased just in time for the headstart launch, and Wildstar quickly
The most challenging part of
took its place as my main hobby. As
this time constraint was the lack of
I dove in head-first, I quickly realized
consistency. I wanted to play PvP
that it wouldn’t be so easy.... I had
arenas, but I couldn’t stay logged
my own RL boss-battle to fight.
in long enough or at the right
times to regularly practice with
-Fighting Time-
any partners. Scheduling time
to play with close friends was
Like many of you life-long gamers
difficult. Most sessions, I had
out there, I am in the middle of
to choose whether I wanted to
the hurricane that is adult life: a
PUG an adventure or a dungeon,
full-time job, family, kids, hobbies,
continue questing, or trade at
side projects, and oh, yes... don’t
the commodities exchange.
forget gaming. For us, the days
Raiding was definitely out.
when we could lock ourselves in
our rooms and play for hours on
I eventually came to a
end are over. Some days, I even feel
conclusion. I couldn’t commit
the urge to use all of my vacation
myself to group content. And
time so I can sit down and just
although I really wanted to play
32 // WildStar Community Magazine
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