Neverwinter will be free-to-play
Cryptic Studios has revealed that its upcoming RPG, Neverwinter, will be a free-to-play MMO experience. After being acquired by Perfect World Entertainment, Cryptic moved a little bit closer to the free-to-play market.
Neverwinter is now scheduled to the end of 2012 and will use the 4th Edition D&D rules, abandoning the initial idea of a co-operative RPG. The game is powered by a modified version of the engine that supports both Star Trek Online and Champions Online, with the former undoubtedly preparing its transition to a free-to-play model. However, content packs will remain free and premium content will stick to consumables and cosmetics.
Cryptic’s superhero MMO, Champions Online went free-to-play earlier this year and Star Trek Online is set to take the plunge before the year is out.
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It's all in the timing, and the closer things get to being globally unified, the better.
Wrong, you get the crappy stuff for free, and even if you are a subscriber you still need some retarded "Points" to actually buy new and interesting things, or just for fun items.
Getting some points monthly is cute, but getting a amount that barely gets you anything, is disappointing.
If you like to spend 5x extra hours on F2p spending probably the same amount of money on the internet then you would have on the game.
As for this game only thing that bothers me is Perfect World Entertainment's cash shop that has proven to be a pay to win factor in all other Perfect World Entertainment games.