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Does WildStar have a future? And if it does, what does it look like? Following recent announcements, columnist Gareth Harmerexamines the possibilities.Read more of Gareth Harmer's WildStar: The Long Kiss Goodnight：（part of the article）Could this be the end of WildStar? After a further round of layoffs at Carbine Studios, reportedly hitting nearly half of those working at the studio, and following it up with the vaguest of vague statements, players have been left reeling at rumours the game could be sunsetting in a few months. The impact of the shock remains to be seen, with Game Director Chad Moore only recently releasing a further statement on the game’s future.Up until the announcement on March 11, everything seemed business-as-usual at the Orange County studio. A new week of Hoverboard zPrix was planned for March 16 to 24, complete with a couple of new rewards. The new zone of Arcterra was undergoing testing, and a launch on Steam was also mooted for sometime this month. And a new raid – Redmoon Terror – was being tested prior to release sometime later this year.But, after Friday’s post-layoff statement, all of this seemed to hang in the balance. Would these still going ahead, or would they be scrapped? If the goal was to leave what’s left of the community in chaos and confusion, then the vague and at-times contradictory forum post did a bang-up job, because that’s exactly what happened. Between the torches and pitchforks, those players that remain were either sharing their goodbyes, or searching fruitlessly for answers about the game’s future.This is a textbook example of how not to announce bad news. As players, we’re worried about our investment – of time, of money, of effort – and if that investment will still exist as the year progresses. What we needed to hear was clarity about the future: what content is still happening, when it will arrive, what has been cancelled, and what remains of the game’s long-term plans. Instead, the rumour-mill was left to fill in the blanks, with Polygon reporting that the game had just a few months before it ‘coasts into the sunset.’Considering that most of us here remember how NCSoft ‘remained committed’ to City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa and Auto Assault up until the publisher pulled the plug, and it’s easy to understand why hope for the future of WildStar is at an all-time low. After all, why cancel the launch in China of a game that you ‘remain committed’ to, especially considering it won ‘Most Anticipated MMO of 2015’ at the China Joy trade fair?