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Wildstar WSW 7/10 - Living in Style: WildStar Beta Houses

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http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/living_in_style_wildstar_beta_houses.php

Now that our Housing system's working pretty well, and our artists have created an amazing collection of props, we decided to put the call out to our beta testers to help create some amazing houses that we could show off to the public. Boy, did they deliver. Here's a selection of our favorite house that have won the contest for CBT2!
THE JUMP SCARE AWARD:

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BEST LOFT SPACE:

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BEST SPIRAL STAIRCASE:

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MOST DELICIOUS BARBEQUE:

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BEST BARTENDER (AND HAT):

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BEST ARMS DEALER THIS SIDE OF THE FRINGE:

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THE TOILET AWARD ('nuff said):

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BEST THRONE ROOM:

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THE HOUSECEPTION AWARD:

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THE STAND-UP COMEDIAN AWARD:

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THE WHAT-THE-HECK AWARD:

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THE COOLEST CEILING AWARD:

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THE CREEPIEST ROOM AWARD:

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All these winners will be gifted the official Housing Trophy, sponsored by Protostar Corporation for use in future houses. Hopefully someone will fill up their shelves with trophies as beta goes on!
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Congratulations to all the winners, and we'll be back with more Housing contests in the future!
 
Man, they weren't kidding when they said you could do pretty much whatever you want with your house. If I wasn't stoked about housing before, I am now!
 
That's one good looking BBQ, the housing system looks extremely promising! It will be awesome to build a new secret lair in my own nefarious design. muahaha
 
Yeah, this is awesome. It's great seeing creativity from a non-dev perspective in the game. I totally want a giant stuffed monster with swords sticking out of it haha!
 
Yeah the customization is limitless baby, cant wait to carve out my own slice of Nexus and personalize it.
 
I was just reading WildStar Central and found a post by Jeremy Gaffney.

"Hopefully one day we can main it drizzle lightly, rain hard in a downpour with thunder and lightning, make it snow, have tornadoes spin about our property that fling us every which way... sandstorms... you name it! xD"

To which Jeremy Gaffney replied, "Most of those are in the build we brought to Gamescom - the social guys added the ability to purchase weather/sky effects a month or two ago. For extra housing maps themselves, not in yet."

I wonder what is meant by extra housing maps?
 
Harlequin said:
I was just reading WildStar Central and found a post by Jeremy Gaffney.

"Hopefully one day we can main it drizzle lightly, rain hard in a downpour with thunder and lightning, make it snow, have tornadoes spin about our property that fling us every which way... sandstorms... you name it! xD"

To which Jeremy Gaffney replied, "Most of those are in the build we brought to Gamescom - the social guys added the ability to purchase weather/sky effects a month or two ago. For extra housing maps themselves, not in yet."

I wonder what is meant by extra housing maps?
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I just... I just...... Squeeee
 
Harlequin said:
I was just reading WildStar Central and found a post by Jeremy Gaffney.

"Hopefully one day we can main it drizzle lightly, rain hard in a downpour with thunder and lightning, make it snow, have tornadoes spin about our property that fling us every which way... sandstorms... you name it! xD"

To which Jeremy Gaffney replied, "Most of those are in the build we brought to Gamescom - the social guys added the ability to purchase weather/sky effects a month or two ago. For extra housing maps themselves, not in yet."

I wonder what is meant by extra housing maps?
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Probably plots that drop from mobs and are bigger?/different setting?
 
Mobs dropping housing plots? That's like killing a dozen boars, none of which have livers.

More likely to be an item designed to be bought with real money, but could eventually be earned if you buy enough CREDD.
 
Keleynal said:
Mobs dropping housing plots? That's like killing a dozen boars, none of which have livers.

More likely to be an item designed to be bought with real money, but could eventually be earned if you buy enough CREDD.
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having a item that you had to purchase with real money would go against the business model they have chosen. they said no micro transactions so i would assume you acquire it some other way.
 
Subtle said:
having a item that you had to purchase with real money would go against the business model they have chosen. they said no micro transactions so i would assume you acquire it some other way.
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Or maybe it´s a reward for a quest.
 
Subtle said:
having a item that you had to purchase with real money would go against the business model they have chosen. they said no micro transactions so i would assume you acquire it some other way.
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They said no micro transactions, but you do purchase CREDD for real money and they have left open that you may be able to do more with CREDD than extend game time.
 
Rajax said:
Really? Where was that?
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From the WS Business Model article:

"Lastly, we talked about the dreaded microtransaction, and if WildStar would opt to also have a cash shop. In short? It won’t, at least not yet. They don’t want to close that door completely, but for now the only thing extra you can buy will be CREDD. If they add other MTX options, it’ll only be stuff that won’t screw their customers over. Cosmetic items, convenience things, and so forth."

So I wasn't remembering correctly that CREDD may be used for more than just game time, but the door is not closed completely on selling cosmetic items. I think larger or exotic housing plots are right up that alley.
 
They talked about this in the Housing Devspeak, how Housing is integrated into everything we do. Vendors, crafting, mobs drops, quests, etc. I don't doubt they will use micro-transactions sooner or later, people love to blow cash on virtual items for some reason and housing could very well be a part of it.
 
i kind of doubt that cash will buy a larger housing plot as that would give you more sockets which is an in game advantage if you could put more farms or mining nodes etc... i agree that items for your house might eventually go micro transactions but i doubt larger plots will.
 
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