WildStar’s launch and its swift demise in the eyes of the paying public still pains me a great deal. I blame NCSoft for much of it, considering it was pushed out the door far too early. However, there were some inherently flawed design decisions. Despite that, WildStar is beautiful, offers some amazing PvP (gear issues aside), has wonderful classes and combat and possibly the best dungeons and raids in the genre. It has, in recent months, gone from strength to strength and the addition of Contracts is only going to help even further.

Contracts are designed to be bite-sized, repeatable elder-game content that can be completed in a relatively short time. With a selection of 5 per day, players able to choose 3 across both PvE and PvP (for a total of 6). Whether it’s killing Skeech anywhere on Nexus or obtaining a certain number of multi-kills, Contracts act similarly to Guild Wars 2’s dailies. Better yet, Contracts come in a variety of difficulties and reward tiers.

“Contracts come in three levels of difficulty. Level 1 contracts are relatively simple, and every day you can complete as many of them as you like. Level 2 and Level 3 contracts are more challenging and may only be completed once each day. Completing contracts provides progress on the contracts reward track, and higher level contracts reward significantly greater progress.”

What I love the most about Contracts is the fact that your daily progress with Contracts is tracked and the more you complete, the more you’re rewarded. Again, if anyone is familiar with Guild Wars 2’s daily login rewards you’ll be familiar with the system.

Despite all this awesomeness, it still pains me that Carbine haven’t made the switch to Buy to Play. Why? I’ve never seen a good reason for not doing it and all they would need to do is a cosmetic store with unique skins and hoverboards. People would be throwing money at the screen. Get bloody on with it, Carbine!