Little News From E3 for Neverwinter Fans
You probably know that a somewhat important event for the gaming business took place during the week. The E3 opened its 2016 doors from Monday to Thursday and several employees from PWE and Cryptic were present.
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The D&D franchise already unveiled the new storyline and aligning Neverwinter campaign Storm Kings Thunder during a livestream at Meltdown Comics in L.A. earlier this month.
Accordingly, the devs and publisher used the E3 mainly to promote their console projects and new title Livelock. So we weren’t expecting to get big updates from Cryptic and PWE regarding Neverwinter from the Los Angeles. There are indeed little and we attached the two articles we could find.
[su_quote cite=”massivelyop.com” url=”http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/16/e3-2016-perfect-worlds-star-trek-online-neverwinter-and-livelock/”]One thing that I see over and over in our comments sections when we cover Perfect World’s MMOs is hatred for lockboxes and keys bought via legit RMT, so you’d better believe that’s something I asked about at this year’s E3 2016 while I was checking out the studio’s lineup of Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Livelock. Cryptic’s Executive Producer, Rob Overmeyer, stressed that players are never are forced to buy anything in Neverwinter and that the game’s pricing is constantly being evaluated. STO’s team actually communicates its strategies quite frequently with the Neverwinter team; lockboxes, PWE says, allow that team to release in-demand content that players might want, but the designers have to be much more wary about unintentionally breaking immersion. Imagine playing a WWII MMO that suddenly gives players the option to grind out UFOs. It’s fun, but if it’s attached to a dungeon, grind reward, or other reliable method, you might see a flood of UFOs suddenly.[/su_quote]
[su_quote cite=”playstationlifestyle.net” url=”http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2016/06/15/e3-2016-neverwinter-ps4-preview-playstation-lifestyle/#/slide/1″]Since its inception, Neverwinter has seen nine expansions. It will launch on the PS4 including all of these expansions, including the latest update, titled The Maze Engine. This means that any players new to the game will have three years’ worth of content from the start, for no charge. It’s an impressive, almost staggering amount of content to just give away. Neverwinter’s install size should be around 16GB, and it will be playable as soon as a fraction of the assets are downloaded – the rest of the game will stream in and be saved for later, which should help with adoption rates among new players.[/su_quote]
On top of that PWE did hand out codes that grant an Adventurer’s Starter Pack and the Lord of the Labyrinth title. If you’re lucky and fast you might be able to snatch one on twitter or reddit. Otherwise it’s also included in Humble Bundle’s E3 Digital Ticket starting at 1$.
So long! Have a nice weekend at the anniversary along the Sword Coast!
“the game’s pricing is constantly being evaluated.” And they have not changed in price for the most part since the game launched 3 years ago. Mount prices were standardized in mod 9, but the cost of most epic mounts went up instead of coming down (blue and green mount prices were reduced in general). That is the only cost adjustment that i can think of for the zen store.
Marks of potency have seen some cost reductions but are still mostly unavailable through drops and need to be purchased with AD from the store.
Companions got a cost reduction but nothing significant.
Transmutation Costs for gear got cut by 90% and that was great.
The devs have played around with the economy some, but they continue to ignore gaping flaws in their prices (giant huge costs to refine items made worse by enormous zen costs for RP) and take years to address player concerns (transmutation costs, prices of Marks of potency).
All in all, if cryptic says they are always evaluating things they do a crappy job (as usual) of communicating their thoughts and plans about it.
Worst price is coal price. 1000 zen = 500k AD, thats bottleneck for many people. Consider low chance on r11-12 upgrade and shitty rng I just have to wait for coal to drop from praying which is rng also.