The Battle Continues: Neverwinter Announces Launch Date, First Expansion, and New End-Game Content

PWE is a communist scheme...

I walked away from this one for numerous reasons; at the time I had a level 46 wizard and a 20 rogue.

-- Firstly, Rogues are overpowered. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and probably has a rogue themselves. In PVP I would never die to anything BUT a rogue because only rogues can lock you out of all actions and dodging for 6 seconds at a time. Once a rogue jumps you you will die, especially if he has good gear. Period. It's completely unbalanced.

-- Second reason was that the economy was beyond borked. The reps claim it'll settle itself, but when? Months down the road? I'm sorry but I'm not about to wait that long just so I can manage to secure myself some good gear. But then the problems come in at..

-- Reason #3 : Dungeons, players and the queue system. Okay so, for the record I wanna say the queue system SUCKS DRY NOODLES!!! At level 46 I was queueing up for dungeons and waiting over 50 minutes, close to an hour and sometimes even then it would not find me a group. Meanwhile PVP queues pop in 2 minutes or less.

I've had groups full to the brim with all rogues, all wizards and just..oh my god. It doesn't care what class you are--it just grabs people willy-nilly and forms groups of 5. It's just a bad queue system period.

Dungeons being party-focused affairs present a large problem; players who are not that good, or players who have egos so overinflated that they figure they're Superman, charge in, die, rage at you and then quit the dungeon. That hurts the party and substantially cuts down success chance. The whole dungeoning aspect just leaves a horrid and sour taste in one's mouth.

Lastly, Astral Diamonds just aren't worth anything. Dailies award only pitiful amounts and at the exchange rate of 350 diamonds per 1 zen, I calcuated that if I wanted a character slot expansion for free I would need to grind out 175,000 diamonds. Needless to say Daily Dungeons were out of the question since people wouldn't know how to find their arse with two hands and a search warrant...so I was stuck with just daily foundries and daily PVP and skirms, which brought in maybe 8000 diamonds total a day (ballparking it since I haven't played in weeks) and that's if I did them all. Needless to say that would take 22 days to earn the diamonds needed for 500 total zen. 22 days of repetitive nonsense to save $5. Just..no. Free or not, my time is money.

So I threw down my towel and walked away. For a D&D game there's barely any story and what bits you discover from NPCs are not enough to flesh out the world. I will warn you--if you plan on playing this game, play it casual. Do not try to go hardcore at it or you will burn out and find yourself disgusted in the amount of shameless repetition this game has. All mmos are repetitive, but this one is repetition without context.

Battle does not continue, battle follows suit of ALL it's titles. They will do this big catering and song and dance for first month of release, then it will go into PWI, FW, RaiderZ, etc. land where it is left years un touched and upgraded when the decision comes to try to remove it or revive it.

I think RIFT will own this. Don`t get me wrong, Neverwinter is awesome, I tested it, but RIFT has so much more content and interesting stuff you can do in your "free time" in-game. Plus, it won`t have any dungeon/instance/level or expansion restrictions for free players.

Ohhh nice, this is comes out on the same day as my birthday wooo.

You kids who have only played 4 lvls need to stop talking trash, This game is a good game in general and the statics prove it. Its unique interesting F2P and the graphics are awesome, if you wont take the time to get maxed out then do not take the time to shut it down. Oh and a simple FACT, all beta's have game breaking problems. ALL OF THEM thats why they are BETA.

Neverwinter should be called something entirely different! The D&D label & neverwinter name should be striped from this game! DDO is way better when playing an actual D&D game! If you like spamming the same keys over & over again play it. If not don't download it & play DDO for a real D&D feel & experience. Neverwinter Graphics good, story & quests good, combat very stiff & clunky, toon development totally shitty all most none, music is ok, to call it a D&D game NO WAY i SHIT on that!

this game will last, and their other games, as long as there are people dumb enough to buy into the game.

what they supposed to be doing to do is ending Beta by wipe and start Gamma..

this game was fun, and still is, but if you're going to get serious with this game, don't, the eco is ruined, they say it's a release date but in all reality it's already been released their just a bad company, there has been over 5 game breaking exploits in this game that has been going on since day one of open beta, they are not wiping characters or anything for the "luanch" people were able to get unlimited astral diamonds, (Real money currency), and other exploits allowed people to one shot mobs, which flooded the market with all the best endgame items, while these were fixed 2 WEEKS after game release there are still plenty more they don't know about, there is another 1 shot exploit where I'm doing over 4m dmg a hit, this game isn't worth the time, they force you to pay money to progress end game, if you want good enchants, good luck, 1% chance of actually getting a basic enchant, OR pay real money for a ward which makes it 100% chance, this game won't last long, I sold 3 level 60 accounts for 10$ a piece because this game is dying, fast, this is a casual game, something that is fun for 2-3 weeks then you'll most likely quit.
They ruined this game.

3gb. so where is the update of new class? hmm so they will make new paragon path and fixes some balances? if not they might be probably owned again by TR and CW with all of their DC in game

wow nice .. maybe I will try the game anyone knows how big is it ?