History YMMV / Wildstar

** The Free-to-Play announcement has the community divided between those who think it's a much-needed change, and those who'd prefer to have the game remain subscription-based. Although NCSoft, Carbine's publisher, had good records on Free-2-Play transitioned games like ''VideoGame/{{Aion}}'' and VideoGame/Lineage2, [=NCSoft=]'s record isn't perfect.

** The Free-to-Play announcement has the community divided between those who think it's a much-needed change, and those who'd prefer to have the game remain subscription-based. Although NCSoft, Carbine's publisher, had good records on Free-2-Play transitioned games like ''VideoGame/{{Aion}}'' and {{Lineage 2}}, [=NCSoft=]'s record isn't perfect.

** The Free-to-Play announcement has the community divided between those who think it's a much-needed change, and those who'd prefer to have the game remain subscription-based. Although NCSoft, Carbine's publisher, had good records on Free-2-Play transitioned games like {{Aion}} and {{Lineage 2}}, [=NCSoft=]'s record isn't perfect.

** [[FetishFuelStationAttendant Agent Voxine,]] [[{{Fembot}} female Mechari]] and [[CuteMonsterGirl female Draken]]. Being in the Dominion has its perks.

** Just as the community was beginning to get well and truly fed up with how deserted the [=PVP=] servers are, the update for 2-24-2016 announced a massive overhaul of the [=PVP=] system, including free realm transfers from [=PVP=] to [=PVE=] servers and new incentives to have World [=PVP=] enabled.

** The sprint system for F2P into permanent and default movement (with the ability to toggle movements) except in battle, which ranged from well-received to negative response.

** Wildstar's new tutorial for Free-To-Play, which was shortened and changed [[note]]For Summary, the whole thing was transformed from torturing suspected civilians and military training to chasing CuteAndPsycho Aurin infiltrator across the ship.[[/note]]. The latter aspect also dealt with the [[MoralEventHorizon mood]] (and possibly [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic turning away]] new players from that faction) of Dominion's tutorial that have created TaintedByThePreview that was made worse with lack of their sympathetic sides in promotional stories outside of game.

** Within the first week of the F2P model, the game suffered a massive increase of players which caused extremely large queues. The Devs quickly responded this with the addition of new servers for the players.
* BrokenBase: The Free-to-Play announcement has the community divided between those who think it's a much-needed change, and those who'd prefer to have the game remain Subscription-based. Although NCSoft, Carbine's publisher, had good records on Free-2-Play transitioned games like {{Aion}} and {{Lineage 2}}, there are also reminders on their treatments on CityOfHeroes and TabulaRasa that might further the fanbase's division.
** The GreyAndGrayMorality of Wildstar. One side claimed that it's an InformedAttribute while other said that the beginning areas and outside-game lores tend to bias towards Exiles and created TaintedByThePreview.

** Some what died down due to the disappointment of release and the negative feedback over Free-To-Play mechanic. However, they still have popularity for their transparency and even joined fan's websites to connect with them.

** The fact that the game requires a subscription fee makes some people even ''more'' apprehensive about trying it out - the game is $60 right out of the box, and on top of that wants you to subscribe. As some people have described it, only ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is able to get away with a $15/mo subscription fee. Others find the subscription fee passable, because it keeps from "Microtransactions", a feature that is ''very'' easy to become a ScrappyMechanic.
** Also happened with the endgame, the plan was to have 40 man raids that would insure that only the best of the best would get in, but the fact that attunements were really luck based, people could buy runs, and the fact that the playerbase did indeed taper off meant that there was a lack of numbers, exacerbating the issue and driving off even more players. Another issue is the cruel, agonizing difficulty of said content. When one of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft's'' top raiding guilds who jumped ship thinks your content is ''too exclusive and hard'', there may be something wrong. A lot of players who retired did so after realizing that the endgame was a "Return to Vanilla [=WoW=]" as was promised by the Devs... except that was mostly nostalgia filler and the "Difficulty" was [[FakeDifficulty because of contrivances and bad game design that most MMOs have moved past.]]
** And now it's happening ''again'' with the F2P launch. Horrific lag and other server issues are plaguing the suddenly-popular megaservers, which were formed to account for dwindling population. After nearly a week of this technical quagmire and no end in sight, it's starting to look like Wildstar's F2P era might be dead on arrival.

*** [[spoiler: Being responsible for Squirg Apocalypse in Whitevale due to their plans for Terraformer as weapon before they activated it in last-ditch defense that mutated the nearby soldiers and squirg into powerful PuppeteerParasite.]]
*** Overall their reckless behavior done more damage inspite of their benevolent goals, ranging from starting a new war with Falkrin when [[GeneralRipper Durek Stonebreaker]] shelled their temple to eliminate remaining Dominion forces to accidentally activating Eldan sites.

** As an Exile, having to kill [[spoiler:Lucy Lazarin]] after she is infected by the Strain

** Wildstar's GreyAndGrayMorality, inspite of Chad Moore's demand that it's this trope, it has become more of an InformedAttribute due to lack of sympathetic background stories for them outside of game (both Loremageddon and Flicks) and the evil theme of Dominion races. Thus suffering from TaintedByThePreview. In additon, their starting zone's (until F2P) plot on torturing the prisoners for loyalty created further debunkment to the story's supposed moral ambiguity.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some older Wildstar players have this opinion on F2P's new tutorial: in spite of its attempt to make Dominion less [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic malign]] (though many outside game lores haven't emphasized it PetTheDog and SaintlyChurch), the majority of the lore contents in the area was cutdown due to lack of Artemis Zin's museum, Vigilant Church, Belle Walker's laboratory, and Rockin' Rowsdower that resulted in TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

** You regularly loot and sell the body parts of your enemies.

** Wildstar's GreyAndGrayMorality, inspite of Chad Moore's demand that it's this trope, it has become more of an InformedAttribute due to lack of sympathetic background stories for them outside of game (both Loremageddon and Flicks) and the evil theme of Dominion races. Thus suffering from TaintedByThePreview. In additon, their starting zone's plot on torturing the prisoners for loyalty created further debunkment to the story's supposed moral ambiguity.

** The F2P's new sprinting system, which became default movement toggle instead of limited movement, receiving scorns from older players.

** The sprint system for F2P into permanent and default movement (with the ability to toggle movements) except in battle, which ranged from well-received to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks negative response]].

** The sprint system for F2P into permanent and default movement (with the ability to toggle movements) except in battle, which ranged from indifferent to [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks negative response]].

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many older Wildstar players' opinion on F2P's new tutorial: in spite of its attempt to make Dominion less [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic malign]] (though many outside game lores haven't emphasized it PetTheDog and SaintlyChurch), the majority of the lore contents in the area was cutdown due to lack of Artemis Zin's museum, Vigilant Church, Belle Walker's laboratory, and Rockin' Rowsdower that resulted in TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

** Some what died down due to the disappointment of release and eventual Free-To-Play mechanic

* ScrappyMechanic: Mashing F to escape stuns was considered very irritating, and was eventually replaced with a different quick-time event where the player has to hold down a specific movement key for a period of time instead. The newer system was much better received.

* AwesomeMusic: [[https://soundcloud.com/inhisgroove/sets/wildstar-mmo-ost-cues How about the entire soundtrack?]]

** To make it even worse, at an Exile meeting Avra Darkos flat-out tells Victor that [[spoiler: she only "suffers him to live" in order to find a cure for the Contagion.]] Ouch.
*** Despite the best efforts to portray the two sides as GreyAndGrayMorality, it is clear right from the starting zones that the Dominion are, hands down, utterly evil. Between acts of tyranny, conquest, genocide, xenocide, and indiscriminate destruction of entire planets, their tyrannical caste system, the sociopathic Chua, the psychopathic Draken, and the fact that the first thing you do as a Dominion character is ''help torture your own people to test them for rebellious or counterrevolutionary thinking,'' it's obvious from the start that they are literally nothing more than Nazis in space. The Exile's sins, on the other hand, can largely be traced to their desperation after nearly being exterminated by the Dominion and their situation allowing little choice but to be rough-and-tumble in how they do things. Whether it was intentional or unintentional (possibly due to ExecutiveMeddling and InformedAttribute) is yet to be seen.

*** [[spoiler: Being responsible for Squirg Apocalypse in Whitevale due to using Terraformer as last-ditch effort that mutated the nearby soldiers and squirg into powerful PuppeteerParasite.]]

* BrokenBase: The Free-to-Play announcement has the community divided between those who think it's a much-needed change, and those who'd prefer to have the game remain Subscription-based.
** The GreyandGrayMorality of Wildstar. One side claimed that it's an InformedAttribute while other said that the beginning areas and outside-game lores tend to bias towards Exiles and created TaintedByThePreview.

*** Despite the best efforts to portray the two sides as GreyAndGrayMorality, it is clear right from the starting zones that the Dominion are, hands down, utterly evil. Between acts of tyranny, conquest, genocide, xenocide, and indiscriminate destruction of entire planets, their tyrannical caste system, the sociopathic Chua, the psychopathic Draken, and the fact that the first thing you do as a Dominion character is ''help torture your own people to test them for rebellious or counterrevolutionary thinking,'' it's obvious from the start that they are literally nothing more than Nazis in space. The Exile's sins, on the other hand, can largely be traced to their desperation after nearly being exterminated by the Dominion and their situation allowing little choice but to be rough-and-tumble in how they do things.
**** Though the Dominion's Starting Zone has been remade for Free to Play PTR due to this reason, which the entire mission was turned from Military Training to chasing CuteAndPsycho Aurin spy.
** Lowborn Cassians, in general, they're at the lower end of Dominion of hierarchy even less privileged than Chuas and Drakens.

** Though the Dominion's Starting Zone has been remade for Free2Play PTR due to this reason, which the entire mission was turned from Military Training to chasing CuteAndPsycho Aurin spy.

** Despite the best efforts to portray the two sides as GreyAndGrayMorality, it is clear right from the starting zones that the Dominion are, hands down, utterly evil. Between acts of tyranny, conquest, genocide, xenocide, and indiscriminate destruction of entire planets, their tyrannical caste system, the sociopathic Chua, the psychopathic Draken, and the fact that the first thing you do as a Dominion character is ''help torture your own people to test them for rebellious or counterrevolutionary thinking,'' it's obvious from the start that they are literally nothing more than Nazis in space. The Exile's sins, on the other hand, can largely be traced to their desperation after nearly being exterminated by the Dominion and their situation allowing little choice but to be rough-and-tumble in how they do things.