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Wildstar pulled from retail shelves ahead of F2P transition - rumour

Wildstar is said to be bidding a quiet goodbye to retailers.

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Wildstar launched less than a year ago, but looks likely to go free-to-play any day now.

According to an anonymous EB Games employee speaking to games.on.net, both EB Games and JB HiFi began quietly taking the MMORPG off shelves a few weeks ago.

This may simply be a stock buyback, but you may remember that the same thing happened to The Elder Scrolls Online in January: Australian retailers send their stock back, everyone said it didn't mean anything, but then shortly thereafter The Elder Scrolls: Tamriel Unlimited was announced.

At present, publisher NCSoft is still offering Wildstar for sale online, but if I were you I'd hold off a week or two and see what happens.

Wildstar already supports options for those not willing to pony up its monthly subscription fee - you can buy play-time with in-game currency. A similar system is in place in EVE Online, and was recently introduced to World of Warcraft.

Many MMOs enjoy greater financial success after transitioning to free-to-play, by the way.

Update: EB Games has told MCV Pacific that the recall is part of "normal stock movement". Which, I remind you, is precisely what it said about The Elder Scrolls Online.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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