KingsIsle Dev Diary: Wizard101 First Time User Experience (FTUE!)
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- FTUE! Standing for First Time User Experience, it's the first hours of your adventures in the game. We worked hard on improving the long-standing FTUE, and now the changes are available on Test Realm this month!
Can you believe that Wizard101 has nearly 11 years of amazing content under its belt? Wow! Way back when, most computers had just a fraction of the horsepower they do today. This limited our ability to produce life-like scenes and animations, though we think you’ll agree that we did a pretty good job with the tools we had at the time! We also found some places where we could improve upon the experience and teach new Wizards the intricacies of the game better.
We encourage you to create a new Wizard on Test Realm when it's online. Play through the first few hours of the game and let us know what you think of the changes. If you can, think about the game with a fresh pair of eyes, as if you’ve never played before. It’ll be fun!
You’ll notice changes all the way from the first moments of the game until you find yourself in Olde Town, with Unicorn Way being the most revamped area overall.
Even veteran Wizards might notice that some of their old friends, like Mr. Lincoln and Annie Shutterbug, have relocated to other areas of Wizard City, but don’t despair - Abby Doodle’s side quest City Tour will show you where to go.
Join us on Test Realm and learn more about the 2019 Summer Update here: www.wizard101.com/game/commun...
We need your feedback on the FTUE! Please post it in the Test Realm Forums: www.wizard101.com/forum/test-...
Thanks, Wizards! - Hry
Now, make WizardCity free.
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That can never happen
@@joshstetsonsadventures5780 it might happen
in sunken city you still get pulled from the sidewalk
Look make wizard City free permanently and not some 1 week free trial nonsense. Trust me it will make a positive impact on the community and new players can experience other parts of wizard City and maybe actually buy a world. It's been years don't you think it's time for some change it's 2019.
You my lord, are spitting facts
FTUE has been an amazing addition! I played through it in test realm and the beginning of the game is much more engaging and fun. Keep up the amazing work guys!
I thought the street crossing thing was to teach us to look both ways before crossing the street.
I haven't thought about that lol
Well to make wizard better make the ENTIRE wiz city free not like “oh hey wiz city is free but it’s only temporary”
pretty much why i dont play there f2p model plain sucks the microtransacvtion shop is pretty horrible as well i feel like they exploit the hell outa the young kids that do play with the microtransactions its just horrid model especially for the ages the game is marketed at.
Wish same for pirate 101 too
i think the reason why people dropped off after foulgaze was because after that you need to pay
your right (now I play other mmo f2p games)
Actually, Foulgaze is after u do the 3 streets. So, it is after the paywall.
I think you’re right in principle but Foulgaze is actually behind the paywall as well. You have to do all 3 Olde Town streets first.
Pancake Guy Where are you getting 4? It’s 10 bucks a month. More importantly this game doesn’t just have a membership, it ALSO has a crowns shop, it ALSO is getting a shitty battle pass, but what’s more is that unless you have an unholy amount of time on your hands you ain’t finishing all the worlds in one month so be ready to pay multiple times. Kingsisle’s profit numbers are probably insane and they are just being greedy,
a real trading system that's not just treasure cards would be amazingly helpful.
Agreed! Having a trading system would be a nice quality of life update that everyone would be happy about.
Please put the potion lady and mini games in the tutorial. So new players know. Thanks
Hi, when are we going to get to the tunnel beneath the bazaar , been waiting for that.
Hi kingsisle i love your game wizard101 its so fun
yea i love it and hope it will turn 100% free to play
[ DMF ] Kingbrice it never will trust me, but its a chance they may make just the wizard city free
5 year later still not free
Same
I love these changes, the addition of a small healing spell at the beginning will help alot for teamwork!
There are over 10 worlds in the spiral. Making wizard city free would make sense and would most likely give players a better experience to the point where they’d go beyond and buy the rest of the other worlds
If they made the spells look as good as the trailer animations, this game would become a 11/10
I really enjoyed this Kingsisle! You guys touched on a lot of things many players have been talking about lately, and I love the behind the scenes perspective of these videos along with the interviews with KI team!
Watch the Real Jay’s video and get some tips from him.
Ninja Of Melon YES PLEASE.
hi Kingsisle ill give you a 200 IQ idea to benefit your game 10x more. Um, all of wizard city free. Youre welcome.
First professional video that I've seen by KI
A few suggestions... an update on the graphics of our characters because they look really outdated against the new updated wizard city. Also, I saw a comment about a day and night cycle. That’s a really cool idea because when it turns night, there could be floating lanterns, lightning bugs, illuminating flowers etc. Lastly, turning Wizard city complete free would be amazing. I’m 17 and I’ve been playing since ‘09 and I have always wanted my friends to play this game with me. However, when they do play, they never continue because of the pay wall for firecat alley and cyclops lane. Anyway I hope you all would take these ideas into consideration and thanks to everyone for their ever hard work on this awesome game!
Oh yeahhh Wizard101!!!
I really enjoyed this Dev Diary, thank you guys. I hope for more of this kind of updates.
I was in Krok with my first wiz and didn't understand the pip thing. "Why can't I use this spell?"
MAKE WIZARD101 FREEEEEEE
I'm glad they're making the game better for new players, but I wish they would just add more lategame content (dungeons, maybe add 8 person raids, etc.)
Could u imagine having to wait ur turn amongst 7 other players, with the addition of the actual boss' turn to wait for. I dunno if thats such a good idea tbh dude.
Yea
you should make side quests a different color than the main quest. It gets confusing sometimes to know which quest is the main quest.
One improvement thats needed too is that All combat related situations were only available as a side quest by diego, thus meaning its a very high chance players wont receive those quests and wont know the tactics about combat, thus leading to the same thing as the ravenwood issue. So that was helpful to give them an immediate learning of the combat too, mainly because the first tutorial of the game isn’t enough, when it comes to shields, boosts, resists, piercings and criticals and etc
I absolutely loved everything about the new FTUE. The quests and dialogue (and music and sound queues!) all felt smooth and consistent and dripping with a quality that resembles the latest worlds. I could tell that a lot of thought and work went into it. Kudos, Kingsisle! :)
When i was in kindergarten, this game came out and i fell in love with it the first time i saw it. i got the game in second grade when i got a computer and choose fire as my main. I still have some nostalgia from when i took the test and it first sorted me in balance then life but i didn't want to be those elements i wanted to be fire. I hope this game gets bigger the community is so nice and helpful and the fanbase is great!
Why can’t they change the characters and how they look
Some people love how the chracters look so if they change it they may not like it
Make wizard101 free and see whats happening. a lot of new player and a big community
Make Wizard City for FREE!!
My question is since this has shortened the physical "length" of Wizard City (Unicorn Way can be completed in roughly 10 minutes), will this impact frustration when new players hit that paywall in Firecat Alley/Cyclops Lane? This update is awesome for veteran players as it helps speed up leveling, and also is nice for potential new customers who go in with the intention of spending money, but will it also "cheapen" the free to play experience for other players? Another concern I might bring up is the line you guys mentioned about how "We are trying to get players engaged in the story" but the vast majority of players seem to skip the story entirely. Many max level wizards don't read the dialogue or lore and just skip through text until you hit a new quest. Will you try to find more ways to "force" the story on players, and in doing so, would this turn off players who want to be left alone.
I think new players complete unicorn way in more time and they don't do only the main quests, but maybe wizard city free would be better
Tell spark he is helping the community out so much and to continue doing what he is doing
I just want the dungeon in olde town to be launched. I've never had a problem with the beginning quests, I payed attention to every detail, even when they told us the side walk was safer. Guess people just want to get into the game without learning about it, the attention span of people is going down, no patients at all. good stuff anyways kingsisle.
i think that there should be a dungeon inside merles office where we get to fight him at his true power and get a legendary rare gear
you should also let non-membership users be able to report people. Before i got my membership i was getting harassed by multiple people, only able to ignore them but seeing them constantly follow me. when i'd go into a battle they'd mark their location. join, then flee when they brought someone new into the battle. It was a horrible experience as someone who didn't know if they wanted a membership. And being powerless to even stop it. Not even knowing about realms.
Cresitonia Wow, didn’t even know that was a thing, I’m so sorry you had to go through that. Greedisle makes you pay to be able to report people lol
OMG guys, this is all absolutely AWESOME! :) I can't believe you were up to all this...so much work and such exciting changes IDK how you managed to keep it all secret! Honestly, this is FANTASTIC! 💖
In Firecat Alley, go through and reread all the dialogue. When i recently started another wizard and got to Firecat, something i noticed that i didnt when i was younger, or from previous go throughs was that one of the first few quests in firecat didnt make sense why it was said like that and just through me for a loop how it connected back to the rest or the firecat arc.
I love that you guys are talking about fixing the players joining the duels.Because nothing's more frustrating for me than someone jumping into my mob fight when I'm almost done.I'm not a new player but it'd be great if there was a way to ensure that happening less other than changing realms.
Wizard101 is the best game I've played online n the only online game I wanted to spend time playing...its great n defently needs more updates to keep the fun rolling
I’m so used to dueling irl. yugioh. was the start for me. Later I came a cross wizard101. Once you learn the element of each school. There strengths and weaknesses from each school.. I’m very grateful to you KI for everything so far.. thank you.. for putting this game in action. - Wolf Heart - Balance Wizard
I agree ever since I started on my journey through the spiral on my storm wizard-kyle storm heart, I honestly gotta say that despite the flaws of this game, ive enjoyed each and every single challenge I had to face off against, not to mention I did most of the worlds by myself, with some help in the boss battles ofc cuz let's be honest storm wizards hit hard but they're lacking in the endurance department. But overall its a fun game for players of all ages.
Also ( not to double post), but add a feature to were if a person is fighting a mob .. when a person wants to join a 3-5 second accept or decline menu pop up. This will eliminate a lot of joining and fleeing issues that people experience.
I love this update
See the only thing that needs fixing is the ptw aspect.
Also, the things in the beginning weren't even an issue. Plus a tutorial in the start was always a thing.
FTUE is GREAT! Tbh, my bf wanted me to play W101 with him about 6 years ago, I made a character and started the game, but gave up soon after because I didn't understand exactly how to play it. It wasn't until about a year ago that I decided to give W101 another try and, with A LOT of help from him, I was finally able to figure it out.
I played through Unicorn Way in the test rhelm the other day and I can honestly say the beginning is soooo much better now. I love that you learn how to use spells right from the start (the main thing I had trouble with when I first started playing).
Thank you for all your hard work!!!
The enrollment quest is a HUGE improvement, because first of all, though it was listed as a main quest, it wasnt an immediate quest so there was a chance that the player didnt recieve the quest and that would lead to fallback of going into triton avenue without their rank 2 and secondary spells. And the walking to schools was also frustrating, because not only it was boring, but computers these days still tend to freeze, even much and i have a great working laptop, so running in between zones like that wasnt fun.
Add a trading system for reagents. That will have people interact way more and helps other in crafting.
Thought it said tfue
we love you i suggest it would be a cool idea adding membership every saturday and sunday just saying
I love wizard101
My biggest beef with the update is changing Ceren's voice actor, I loved the old voice actor!
Also all of Wizard City should be free. It's been over 10 years, you can afford to make the whole first world free.
My only problem in the game so far waa the experience and the fact of traveling back and forth to complete 1single mission...
Love you guys!! -Allan Ironcloud 🧙♂️🧙♂️
I love the new FTUE, but I’m going to miss Ceren Nightchant’s old voice and dialogue 😢
Me too! That was my biggest thing, I loved Ceren's first voice actor and it broke my heart that they replaced them
Am I the only one who thinks mana and wandering enemies are annoying? I hate searching for mana and avoiding the enemies when I play, I hope others agree
I agree on mana and health. Need more wisps of both throughout the game. Very frustrating to have to go to another area to get health or mana and then go back to what you were working on.
That struggle is a huge part of the game, they can’t just take it out
absolutely not. I think you are missing a bit point of the game. Getting mana costs a maximum 20 seconds and the mobs are easy to avoid if you don't want to fight them.
Mana later in the game is basically pointless as well. I can't remember the last time I actually ran out of mana unless it was because I fled.
I think we are so used to mana and mobs that we don't understand how useless they are. It's not a fun "struggle", it's just annoying (in my opinion). Like having a hot temperature in the room while playing, that's not a fun challenge 😐. We could walk more easily if the mobs didn't catch you, and mana is something useless, just the same loss of time everytime we flee
I cant wait until marleybone isnt completely dungeons
“COMING SOOOOON”
If wizard101 was on console I stg it would change everything I love this game
Damn, this aged well
Make the first arch free it’s been 10 years. You’ll revive your game an bring in more new players
TheHelmetHD Finally someone who gets that it should be more than just wizard city.
The entire first arc is a bit much imo. I do agree that at least all of wizard city should be playable for free. I think starting from Krokotopia the paying element is ok to be implemented.
EQOA foe life - hi leah, past everquest player, thanks for being part of a great game
Maybe separate old players and new players serves, sometimes i see a lot of new players just camping the ghosts and using hellephant all the time.
I feel like that I’m confused on where to go because I’m kind of bombarded with quests. There is no road or pathway that we are led thru, so if I hadn’t played the game before then I’m running from unicorn way to firecat alley to cyclops lane. Wondering if there was any way you guys could look at this
We should be able to customize a color for the quest helper arrow
i love wizard 101
Next step Anotger free wizard city weekend but take away that weekend part
Next 101 game when?
Do y’all even listen to us? Make wizard city free, add a FREE trading system where we can trade gear etc, stop making everything cost crowns and make it gold, increase drop rates I’ve done darkmoor 15+ times and only got the wand and hood also the chests at the end of boss fights should cost gold instead of crowns, give us critical and block back but don’t make it op how it was earlier, I’ve seen storms with 900+ crit in test realm, and oh did I mention stop making every single thing cost crowns and make it cost gold instead. Packs should cost gold because you’re basically gambling to see if you can get a specific thing from that pack, “zones” should cost gold as well.
Can someone please release the full dev diary song?
please bring double pet xp or gardening xp for members again. It has been too long since then.
Not gonna happen. Greedisle is locking those benefits behind a massive paywall in the form of a battle pass.
a guild system would be great to bring people together. guild battles and guild gear. guild spells. guild pets. guild homes where multiple people could go there to their guild. And the guild owner could put down different home instances for guild members to farm together.
Make buying world's unlock everything buying the world and needing to buy tunnels and castle to enter is a no
If you guys made member benefits permanent imagine how many more people would be buying member....please
I’ve been curious about this for a while, I play a level 100+ life who is in Khrysalis but I still can’t get good critical rating. Kingsisle, is it true you only made this school to be solely support with terrible damage or is that just a stereotype. ~Alexander GreenDreamer
Can you please add a tutorial tip for discarding a card? Or add it to the Diego training or something? It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that that was even an option lol
Yea discarding a card is life saving I love it
What's the name of the song you use here?
Just make
It free to play and people will buy crowns all the worlds should be free to play
Can u guarantee that people would buy enough to pay for ki?
I mean many of the comments they talked about early in the video have been in the tutorial for years...
here an idea about how to impove animus so people don't end up fighting over who get attack as some people can't understand turns fairly. It be great to have each time a player use a animus spell attack every get same amount so if one is play everyone get 1-2 if not killed and 3 if killed enemies as game is meant to be about teamwork would be better off 2nd idea to allow people to exp first arc have it so player who have access has a way of get a potion for at least wizard city by having to beat monster that match area so fire cat alley you have to beat something like fire elf or cat enemy so many time you you just need to be near player to use potion on a player that have no access
Love the game, only thing I could suggest would be to maybe release all the spells into the game as well as spellements to be more accessible. They are behind what feels like a pay wall. I'd rather pay a couple dollars more a month and have everything built in the game already then having to pay for it at some point piece by piece. Loremaster for instance, great idea! Her drop rate is atrocious however, make her drop rate the same as when she premiered. Things like that, just a thought.
It was one of my favorite games😭😭😭😭😭😖😔😞
If i get membership will it be for all my wizards or just 1?
Hello Potato, membership is for your account, each wizard gets the membership, membership does not transfer to different accounts.
For all the wizards in your account
Protato 589 For all your wizards on that account.
Its for all
Protato 589 all of them
Intro of the game and spells should be updated too.
if you updated the graphics this game would be one of the best games in 2019 because people love beautiful games and HD or 4k scenery
Bring the flute back again please
11:11 Feels bad
Can you guys please just listen to the community. Listen to what all the wiz youtubers have to say about this game. You advertise wiz101 as a free game, but in reality, it's a demo. We want to AT LEAST, experience all wiz city and krokotopia. Please. Or if you can't make them free, make earning crowns EASIER, 10crowns per vid/trivia? That's so low and not worth the time. Please care more about the free players, not everyone can afford membership/buying crowns. Again, please, consider this.
So can anyone give me why kingsile is super slow at updating their game? Why don't we have a trading system? Why don't we have wizard guilds? Why don't they make new clothing that actually looks good?, Why is buying gold with crowns even still an option?, Why is their no pet talent reroll?, Why can't they fix PvP?, Why are there just continuous reskins of the exact same mount? I mean... I would enjoy some new mounts you know... ORIGINAL IDEAS? , Why is their no daily log in rewards? Why is there no helping system where you can pay someone for helping you with either gold or items? Why is the free trial so stupidly short? Why is there no cosmetic magic auras/other effects that I can buy with crowns? I mean there are so many freaking good ideas yet they don't make them
Do you know how to get my account back for me to use because i was not on my account for 1 months. Because my computer was broken. And i just got a new one today an i can't go in to my account .just not work in . Can you do something Please i want to play on the game
Hi isaiah! Please contact our support team and we'll be happy to help you out: www.wizard101.com/CustomerSupport/game
How about making wizard city free and fixing pvp, as a max wizard it’s frustrating doing a quick match and getting hit by a shadow spell first round
How about you let the adults do their job, and you just keep playing their game.
PLEASE MAKE THE PACK SPELLS CRAFTABLE ;(
New World Please!!!
Pls update the german version
Please, put the game with a closed price and not with subscriptions, many people would come to play, especially servers like the one in Spain that is always empty.
A very good idea but they make way too much money off of subscriptions to consider doing so.
Love the idea of when people jump in, it doesn't call in more mobs.
Maybe can do the whole game like that? Give it like a 10 sec window from time first player joins and cut off mobs joining if another player joins after that?
Make the full game free on weekends that will make more popular the game .. and maybe more people will start play the game..
Plz make the myth heal to a 4 pip spell plz to balance pvp
Please tell me why there’s 101 comments
Well now 102 xd
Wait can u guys please please add a day cycle were it can be day and night or day for ever or night for ever so it can bring lights around wizard city at night.
Why can't Wizard101 be added to mobile phones??????
a m Because mobile phones can’t handle the data size and RAM requirements that wiz requires
i love the FTUE