If you buy PLEX, you can consume it for 30 days of game time or use it for various account services. You buy PLEX from CCP and get it as an item in-game, which you can then sell to other people for the in-game currency, ISK. PLEX has been around for about four years at this point. So, the buzz after that has been people sorting themselves out into the love/hate sides of the subscription model, attempting to decipher exactly how this is “hybrid,” and generating inapt parallels to EVE Online and its PLEX scheme. As they put it on their site, after you buy the box and use up your “30 days with purchase” time, you have two options: The alleged mitigating factor in the WildStar plan appears to be a PLEX-like item which they are calling CREDD. Hope you have your shit well and truly together. NCSOFT’s record of closing down games indicates that they either have no compunction about shutting them down or they have no clue about what works for MMOs and end up backing a lot of losers.
The masses have spoken, and they do not like monthly subscriptions and won’t tolerate them without good reason.Īnd Carbine, WildStar’s developer, is working for NCSOFT (Didn’t they used to write it NCsoft?), which means the gun will be to their head from day one to make this work and work well. Given what I have seen so far, I hope their secret weapon is still under wraps, because the MMO market is pretty harsh these days. WildStar is going for the classic monthly fee subscription model, which means they had better have something new and different to offer. The big news so far this week… at least at the point when I started writing this post… seems to be the announcement about WildStar’s business model.
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